(This photo has been cropped to remove sensitive information as well as extraneous sky.)
I went to Greenwich yesterday (keep an eye on this space for more on that) and we took the Docklands Light Rail. We jumped in the first car, and I managed to sit next to the driver, which afforded excellent views of the tunnel ahead and the emerging skyscrapers of Canary Wharf.
A woman behind me pulled out a video camera and began taping, so I whipped out my Nikon and snapped a picture. Next thing you know, she was surrounded by yellow-jacketed police officers, who started interrogating her on the spot, demanding to know what she'd videoed. In broken English she insisted she was a tourist and was only taping the buildings. I clutched my camera in my pocket, well aware that as a foreign national I could probably be deported for taking photos while on public transportation.
I was fully prepared to tell them they must pry my camera from my cold dead hands, but then the train took off, leaving the tourist and me bewildered, but relieved. My friend reminded us there's an arms convention going on in one of the nearby buildings. I wondered why the police weren't there, arresting the real fomenters of violence, but that's just me.
Anyway, here's the photo I took, carefully cropped to avoid showing something sensitive like railroad tracks. If you don't hear from me in a few days, please send money to my legal defense fund.
This gives a whole new meaning to putting freedom on the line, doesn't it?
