NO PHOTO ZONE? 3 PLACES YOU DON’T WANT TO FIND YOURSELF

The No Photo Zone is bigger than three, but something happened recently to link historical and cultural events.

Three days ago an old man paid the piper for:

Doing a job in 1940’s Germany.

Even now people get arrested for their concentration camp guard pasts.

Did someone talk? See a picture? Something happened.

Berger is a widower with two grandchildren, according to the Post. He has said he was ordered to work in the camp, was only there a short time, and did not carry a weapon, the Post reported.

These guys wish there had been a No Photo Zone.

“After 75 years, this is ridiculous. I cannot believe it,” he said last year as he fought his expulsion from the United States, according to the Post. “I cannot understand how this can happen in a country like this. You’re forcing me out of my home.”

He was a camp guard, just no Ivan the Terrible. Either way, getting identified as a holocaust guard is one of the worst things.

No Photo Zone #2

Action shot of indefensible acts.

Stay out of the frame while you’re busy gouging a cop’s eye at the Capitol on Jan.6.

Thomas Webster, 54, was arrested by FBI agents near his Hudson Valley home. At an arraignment on Tuesday, prosecutors said that Webster, a 20-year NYPD veteran who previously served in the Marines, brought a gun and a bulletproof vest to the deadly January 6th riot.

I triple checked. This story isn’t a hot take. If there’s a way to find you, you’ll be found.

The Gouger is on video

An attorney for Webster, James Monroe, said that his client traveled to D.C. to take part in a protest “urged on by our former president.” He did not dispute that Webster was seen on video assaulting the officer, but pointed to his marital status, military service, and his two decades as an NYPD officer to argue for his release on bail.

He didn’t make bail, and since Jan 6 grows as a huge ongoing story, wherever he lands in lock up everyone will know who he is. And who he was, a cop.

Webster faces charges of assaulting an officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon, obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder, disorderly conduct, and other charges. His request for bail was denied on Tuesday by Judge Andrew Krause.

“The conduct on the video does shock the conscience,” Krause said. “What we see is a person who flat out attacks a law enforcement officer.”

ProPublica reported what one officer, a combat veteran, saw:

“The rioters were so vicious, so relentless, that they seemed fueled by methamphetamine. To his left, he watched a chunk of steel strike a fellow officer above the eye, setting off a geyser of blood. A pepper ball tore through the air over his shoulder and exploded against the jaw of a man in front of him. The round, filled with chemical irritant, ripped the rioter’s face open. His teeth were now visible through a hole in his cheek. Blood poured out, puddling on the pavement surrounding the building. But the man kept coming.”

Do we need a no photo zone for this?

Zone #3

Ten years from now seeing yourself in a large gathering without a mask or social distance.

You don’t have to be a Capitol riot guy screaming yourself blue at the front of a big crowd.

Or a Trader Joe’s shopper without a mask re-establishing your freedoms to a store manager with your legal expertise and pocket constitution.

Whether it’s a party on the deck three doors down, or a cheerleader convention, this will happen over time:

Someone you know, or heard about, someone in the same places you’ve been, will catch COVOD-19 and have a hard time, maybe die.

The closer you are to them, the more the remorse, the “We didn’t know,” the “Now I feel so bad.”

You’ll see them through a window, talk on the phone, the same things we’ve been hearing about, except when it hits close to home, you’ll be living it together.

But they won’t be alive to see

In ten years you can change your story. You weren’t there, and if you were you wore a mask. If there’s a picture of you in a group without a mask, you had just slipped it down to eat or drink.

Other than that you’d been following the strict guidelines of social distance, masking up, and washing compulsively.

Go ahead and spin the story the way some elected officials have called Jan. 6 just a bunch of rowdy guys walking around.

Take the Senator Ron Johnson line.

If, ten years out, you find yourself questioned about masks, social distance, hand washing, and storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, you’ll have a few options, especially if you’re an anti-mask eye-gouger.

If the common goal is avoiding the next half million dead from the corona10 pandemic, wear the mask, wash your hands, and stay socially distant. Follow best health practices on Facebook and twitter.

Stick around to tell how it really was way back in the wild days of 2021. Take a picture since there won’t be a no photo zone to dodge.