"If you're not doing anything wrong...."

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

If you're not doing anything wrong, why should you be afraid of being spied on? :sarcasm:
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Police Video Caught a Couple's Intimate Moment on a Manhattan Rooftop

By JIM DWYER

A man and woman who shared an intimate moment on a secluded, dark rooftop one August night last year have learned that they were secretly watched, an intrusion made possible by increased police surveillance of protest rallies and other events and also by advanced technology intended to fight terrorists.

That night, police officers tracked bicycle riders moving through the streets of the Lower East Side from a custom-built, $9.8 million helicopter equipped with optical equipment able to display a license plate 1,000 feet away.

With the night vision of the helicopter's camera, and permission to make videotapes, an officer also recorded nearly four minutes of the couple on the terrace of a Second Avenue penthouse.

"When you watch the tape, it makes you feel kind of ill," said Jeffrey Rosner, 51, one of the two people. "I had no idea they were filming me - who would ever have an idea like that?"

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More at: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/22/nyregion/22rooftop.html?pagewanted=print

Note: edited to add "sarcasm" tag :evilgrin:

[acmavm]

1. That 'if you're not doing anything wrong' is one of the statements used

most often by people who themselves are doing something wrong apparently.

[LaurenG]

2. Umm

" - who would ever have an idea like that?"


:shrug: The pResident?

[BlueJac]

3. You must be kidding!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Telling the truth about various happenings of late is now considered

doing something wrong.

[ticapnews]

5. They shouldn't have been outside

Are they married? If they aren't married they shouldn't be doing anything at all! Sex is for *after* marriage!

Mr. Rosner should be ashamed of himself! And the little harlot he was with has to be identified for proper punishment!

:eyes:

[Ksec]

6. We hafta hammer these conservative cowards on this issue

on this thing. Imagine anyone agreeing to be spied on? Its cowardly at best. They would sacrifice their own children to protect Bush and their party, pathetic and cowardly/

[liveoaktx]

7. I'm not doing anything wrong when I'm in the john but I still don't want

someone standing at the door staring at me the whole time.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

12. that's a good analogy that even freepers might understand n/t

[Maestro]

8. I'm sure

Rove, Bolton, Cheney and * had a circle jerk viewing of the video just to make sure national security was not threatened. :eyes:

[WinkyDink]

13. Only if the male was prominent.

And resembled JimmyJeff.

[calico1]

9. I have a feeling a lot of people

who are not doing anything wrong are in for a surprise.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

10. They apparently haven't heard that not all people arrested

spied upon, illegally imprisoned, etc, etc, are guilty. How many people are in Gitmo that we know aren't terrorists-that were either caught up in sweeps or handed over by people for bounty money?

The trouble with folks who think like this is that they don't realize that the law is there to protect against these very abuses.

[Warren Stupidity]

11. This is the same NYC that wants to cut the transit workers pensions

and increase their health care costs? Gee seems like they've got tons of money to spend on 10M helicopters to float around harrassing DANGEROUS BICYCLISTS and making amateur pornos. How much other expensive useless shit does the NYPD have lying around?

I bet they don't have a decent universal emergency response communications system yet.

Oh I know, al qaeda is going to fucking swim over here and invade manhattan, that's why they need military grade assault copters.

[tuvor]

14. It all depends on who gets to decide what constitutes "wrong," doesn't it?

[stillcool]

15. exactly...and with the upside down terminology...

encapsulated in gop-speak...who knows? 7th Ave. is probably at work right now thinking up new phraseology to best encircle the massive hordes in a criminal net. 2+2=5