Originally posted by AuntyM:

A Homeland Security agent told him he had broken a law by taking pictures of a federal facility.--Spiers account
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This isn't the account from the law enforcement officials who approached him or two separate eye wittness' at the Ballard Locks who watched the whole thing unfold.

I heard two separate people call in to two different local talk radio shows say that they wittenesed Spiers being loud and belegerent when he was questioned by law enforcement officials at the locks--So much so that it seamed that he was deliberately trying to make a sceen. They also said that the officials who approached him acted professionally and seamed to just be doing their job to protect and serve the public.
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There is no such law. Read the article AGAIN. He was detained, photographed and lied to. What purpose does it serve to lie about such a law? It's to instill fear in the populace.--AunytyM

You need to read the article again--Spiers, by his own ommission states that he started the exchange by asking if he was leagally obligated to show his ID. It doesn't sound like he wanted to cooperate from the word go. What proof do you have that he was lied to?

It's funny how you automatically take the side of Ian Spiers who instead of simply complying with a reasonable request and being thankful that law enforcemnt officials were working hard to ensure our safety--Becomes loud and belegerent and demands to know if he is leagally obligated to comply, then calls the Trib. and the A.C.L.U. and trys to discredit the efforts of Homeland Security. I wonder what his motives are?
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Being detained briefly and having your ID checked is no big deal in my book. However, this article indicates it goes beyond that.--AuntyM

How so?

Because Spiers didn't want to cooperate? Because he notified the Trib. and the A.C.L.U. ? Because the A.C.L.U. had some free time to work on this case in between their efforts to protect the civil liberties of the of the members of National Man Boy Love Assiociation and trying to remove "one Nation under God" from the Pledge of Allegence?
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The National Press Photographers Association has gotten numerous reports from members who say they've been hassled by police since the Sept. 11, 2001.--AuntyM citing Trib. article


Hassled by who? THE MAN?
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Gestapo tactics INDEED!

Why would anyone think a press photographer poses a threat to our national security? --AuntyM


Why would've anyone have thought a few middle-eastern men with box cutters posed a threat to our national security prior to 9/11?


The next time a Police Officer or Homeland Security Agent asks to see some ID and lets you go about your business after you show it--you might want to thank them and God that there are people out there trying to make our country safe from terrorists who seek to do us harm -- before you notify the A.C.L.U. and claim your a victim of "Gestapo" tactics.