You have been accused of remembering your wife's birthday, how do you plead?

Credit goes to Simierski for Publishing that video, I believe ChrisTheXelent made it - both channels are well worth a look, especially Chris' Steam Locomotives in Profile.

Anyway, the reason why I bring this up is because of an incident which happened at London Cannon Street Station when I attempted to photograph the exterior and the platforms; a steward came up to me quite intently, intercepted me and asked me what I was doing, naturally, I responded "Taking photos of the station, is there a problem with that?" or words to that effect; he then ordered me to delete the photos on account of "fighting terrorism", as well as some photos taken of the station at Tilbury in Essex (I had come from Gravesend in Kent and had taken the ferry over).  Thankfully the rest were saved by hiding behind a shot of an obscure burger chain which used to have an outlet in Frimley:

Starburger, I salute you and all my cherished memories of never visiting you but once!

Naturally, I don't blame the steward for any of this, though I did label him a "joyless corporate tool" in my head; aside from making the political class look oh so compassionate and active, surely banning photos has done the sum of shit-all to stop terror, in fact the terrorists themselves are proving to be more effective than any new law we have put into action by the looks of it!  Does this stop their fury-filled drive for united action and radical change characteristic of cult indoctrinates?  No, but that goes to show that savages will be savages no matter what tools they are given:  Ban photos, they will use sketches; ban drawing at stations, they'll remember the details; what are you going to do?  Ban remembering things?

Yeah, ban memory why don't you?  Let all those businesses collapse due to inability to keep even the simplest of deadlines, or let nurses forget to change the toilets of the bed-ridden or perhaps let psychotics forget their Valium and go out to stab some hapless government official - hey, what goes around comes around!

Clamping down on the citizenry in such petty ways as this simply shows Al Qaeda and other militant groups that they create massive hysteria necessitating such tightened controls, ergo, they double their efforts.  On the other hand, let's imagine the opposite case; we pay little to no attention and keep on visiting the shops and stations and such that were targeted, we keep taking photos and we even manage to make public jokes about how Abdul chose an indestructible car to blow himself up in; like that infantile kid acting all gimpy for attention, the militants will come to the conclusion that their blows are harmless, only serving to cement themselves further into the social category of "hopeless puppet".

Or maybe we won't see that, because in this case we are dealing with people who teach their kids that having your body parts rocketing in all 6 degrees of freedom, and taking a bus stop full of nuns along for the ride, is the difference between a boy and a man.