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The sign shown here, or one like it, is displayed at the main gate of every RAF Station at home and abroad. Why did you think it didn’t apply to you? You must know that in many countries - maybe even your own - you would be arrested, tried, sentenced and banged up for doing what you did.
'Would' implies certainty, the wording is 'may' which is much more vague and implies the use of common sense when deciding whether or not to arrest and / or prosecute. Similar wording appears at the RAF Museum. Go figure.
There does seem to be an element of authoritarianism creeping into some of the comments here.