Children photographs vital to development

This report on Amateur Photographer, was actually a long time coming.

It is about time that officialdom actually got real about photographs, security and protecting children from abuse.

Targetting photographers was never going to have the slightest bit of impact on this issue, but as usual, blind, deaf and exceedingly dumb officials didn't want to hear it.

Personally, I think that a lack of knowledge as to HOW to stop child pornography is as much to blame, as is socieites own knee jerk hammering. We all screamed loudly for something to be done about child abuse and officialdom had to react ... I find myself asking the question, what the hell else did we expect them to do?

The one thing that needs to be done is that officials have to stop persecuting photographers and take a long sit back and actually think again over what they are trying to achieve.

What they have done so far only persuades people that the mission was not, "to protect children," but rather, "to assert authority we don't have and make ourselves feel superior."

Now that they have firmly hit the buffers, let's sit back and see what they decide to do next ... either learn from their mistakes and do their bloody job, or carry on with their blind stupidity and attempting to stroke their egos. Unfortunately, past history suggests the latter.