Those Kate Photos

Writes Richard Littlejohn in The Daily Mail:

[T]he decision of Prince William to seek criminal charges against the snapper responsible is sinister in the extreme.

Not that I’m defending the excesses of the predatory paparazzi, who pursue their prey like packs of wild dogs. Their behaviour plays into the hands of those self-interested politicians and police chiefs who are gagging to introduce draconian controls on a free Press.

Any sympathy I may have had for William went out of the window when he resorted to the criminal law. Attempting to put professional photographers in prison for taking pictures of a woman whose job is to have her photo taken is outrageous.

It doesn’t matter how inconvenient or intrusive those photos may have been. They were taken with a long-distance lens from a public road.

Read the rest.

UPDATE from Kathy Grable:

This has the earmarks of a contrived “crisis” to clamp down on the press. Either this woman and her husband are unbelievably clueless, or they staged this for publicity (diversion?) or to attack the press. The response of everyone I know to this is “Can’t those people keep their clothes on?”

BTW, loved the podcast on the Kennedy assassinations. I did not know of the JFK, Jr., issues. It sure explains the big recovery effort by the navy.

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7:08 am on September 19, 2012