Bill Emory, a Charlottesville, Virginia photographer, was taking pictures in Lafayette Park, in Washington, DC, on November 3. Federal guards demanded that, after he took a picture of a guard shack, he expose his film under the threat of having his photographic equipment confiscated. Friends, this is making a crime of merely observing the White House. A crime of seeing. What's it gonna take? Kristallnacht?
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