If you are proclaiming that what you are doing isn’t just for yourself–that it is for other citizens, who are either afraid or ignorant, to stand up for their First Amendment rights– then why would you be willing to zip up your lips for a lot of money?

Now if this was something more personal than a War on Photography and you just want to move on with your life, then I would completely understand your decision.

I dare those of you who are truly a part of the War on Photographers to say no to any settlements and make sure that actual violations of your rights get to anyone who will listen by any legal channels you have access to.

That’s all for now.

After reading all his posts on here I didn’t think he would put a price tag on his silence.

It’s sad only way things will change is to keep things out in the open and talked about not hidden in a back room like dirty laundry.

Hope he has fun traveling the world taking pics.

It seems to be getting very bad for photographers. I have some experienced about being harrassed by the officials of the MBTA, where photography is prohibitied. Once upon a time, they had a rule where the photographer had to get a photo permit. Inside of one year, I had been yelled at 4 times for shooting pictures in the subway; twice by either the inspector or the starters in the stations, and twice by the T police themselves. The last incident, which occurred at the JFK/UMass station proved to be too much…were my wife not present, I think I would have been hauled in.

Now…I have a bigger camera that can’t be hidden. I hope that’s why there has been no harrassment in recent months; before, I used to walk around with a point-and-shoot Canon.

http://nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2009/03/amtrak01.html

Whether Kerzic had anything to do with this, it’s a welcome change.

I checked out the New York court system online and his case had disappeared where I had seen it there in prior days.

I think it’s obvious what happened and I look at it as a victory for Kerzic. I don’t hold anything against him for accepting a settlement.

This is what happens to people’s righteous beliefs when the opposition dangles a nice, fat carrot in front of them. It’s nice to see that the American dream of getting rich by suing Big Business is alive and well.