FBI Visits Oregon Man at Home, Inquiring why he Photographed Dam

[Logical]

Are the feds so stupid to think that someone who wanted to blow up a dam would stand in front of the dam with a camera and take pictures. Maybe they would be a little more subtle. More people need to challenge the police on this topic.

An Oregon man who enjoys taking pictures of wildlife around a local dam received a visit today from an FBI agent and a police officer, inquiring what he intends to do with his photographs.

But Doug Tankersley handled it perfectly, forbidding them men from entering his home while documenting the exchange with his video camera.The men were gone in just over five minutes, having done their duty in keeping our country safe from a 59-year-old grandfather who enjoys posting his photographs on Facebook and Tumblr as well as a few framed favorites on the walls of his home in Umatilla City.

The truth is, the visit was nothing but retaliation from the Umatilla City police department over his insistence of standing up for his rights to take pictures near the McNary Dam, which is less than a mile from his home.

Video at: http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2013/06/10/fbi-visits-oregon-man-at-home-inquiring-why-he-photographed-dam/

[DCKit]

1. Fuckig terrorists!

Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!

Yeah, it just makes sense.

[Logical]

2. I agree. People should not take pictures of anything a terrorist could blow up!!! n-t

[kestrel91316]

3. What is really absurd is that McNary Dam is promoted as a good place for

tourists to visit.

If they don't want people taking photos then they can damned well close the area and make it another Area 51.

[Logical]

4. This whole deal is stupid as hell. And an FBI agent has nothing better to do? n-t

[DCKit]

5. K & aRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Sick of these fucking all holes

[AsahinaKimi]

6. I wonder if they will start posting signs

NO PHOTOGRAPHS ALLOWED ... ?? Than again, I suppose that could happen any where now adays.

[Logical]

7. So true, and of course the terrorists will honor those signs! :-)

[AsahinaKimi]

10. Well you can see it right?

Tourist pulls out camera.. Security guard walks over.. "Hey buddy, can't you read the sign????"

wait..that reminds me of a song...

[Logical]

12. LOL, Thanks! :-)

[awoke_in_2003]

19. Good song...

I was a kid when this came out.

[AsahinaKimi]

20. oh gosh..

me too!!

[awoke_in_2003]

21. No way you are that old...

and no, I am not being a flirt

[AsahinaKimi]

22. I am not telling my age...

Its especially freaks people out when I know about something that happened way before I was born. Simple answer to that, my dad, who was Born and Grew up in Japan was a total fan of American Culture. He had record albums around the house, as well as magazines and comic books. He was a American Otaku before people used the word in America!!

[awoke_in_2003]

23. You experienced the best of America...

We had such hope. I was born in 68- the year we assassinated much of our hope.

[arely staircase]

25. louis ck on the sign song and other stuff

[Cerridwen]

8. "Buried the lead (lede)" "retaliation from the Umatilla City police department"

"retaliation from the Umatilla City police department"

The "feds"? Define and specify, please. The FBI. DOI. BLM. IRS. HHS. DOE. DOEducation. Any federal government agency which you disapprove?

Broadbrushing for the sake of??????? Burying the lead to frame the message as?????

[Logical]

13. Lol, well, since the subject line said FBI I meant the FBI! And the FBI agent....

Did all the questioning, not the cops!

[Cerridwen]

15. Authoritarians stick together.

FBI, cops, whatever.

Missed my point, though. Not surprised. I tend to do subtle to see who's paying attention.

[npk]

9. "What do you intend to do with your photographs." - Uh look at them.

What the fuck business is it of the FBI. Oh wait it's not their business.

[joshcryer]

11. "I have plenty against the United States."

I love that. The FBI agent was at least calm natured and I think he was more of an interviewing type (like you might find on a murder case something). Probably the bureaucracy sent him out there at the behest of the cops to try to intimidate him.

[treestar]

14. While this does indeed sound silly

just how are they to know about this guy before they met him?

It begs the question, how is the FBI supposed to do anything at all if it has to clairvoyantly just know who is bad and go after only them?

[Logical]

16. It was pure harassment sent by the local police. Only to try..

To scare him into stopping challanging the local cops.
I think this agent had full background info on this guy already.
I am also sure this agent had better things to be doing.

[HooptieWagon]

17. And the FBI knew he was posting his pics on FB...

maybe because the NSA was monitoring him? Don't we all feel safe and free now?

[Logical]

27. So true! How many terrorists post pictures on FB? n-t

[AmyDeLune]

18. I got questioned by a security guard a few years ago for taking pictures of

a building. I think it turned out to be the Bonneville Power Administration Building or something like that. There were no visible signs prohibiting photographs and he kept going on about 9/11, The Patriot Act, and no photographs allowed, blah, blah, blah. I thought about telling him that the NSA had ruled that The Patriot Act does not make it a crime to take pictures of public buildings, or that Google Earth would give far more useful images to plan mass destruction. Since he didn't try to take my camera, I just let him blather on and went on my way when he was done.

The thing is, it's a beautiful building, I see people taking pictures of it all the time. The windows reflect in such a way that it looks like the building is full of clouds and sky.

[Demo_Chris]

24. That's us, Land of the free and home of the brave. nt

[Egalitarian Thug]

26. Or maybe this is a ray of hope. If the SecState is as dim as this suggests, we can keep

fooling them by telling them to, "look over there" and running to the other side of the house and denying that we are who they are looking for.