XPost: rec.radio.shortwave   
   From: dpetermaus@att.net   
      
   On 11/16/11 18:59 , Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:   
   > On 11/16/2011 4:45 PM, D. Peter Maus wrote:   
   > [...]   
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   >> But the language of the bill is sufficiently broad to allow   
   >> interpretation beyond commercial interests alone, to include persons   
   >> conducting flea markets, garage sales, or one on one transactions.   
   >> To the degree that it's had a chilling effect on flea markets on the   
   >> local level, in areas where economic distress has made flea markets   
   >> a significant segment of the shopping culture.   
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   > What we need is a whole new culture of privacy.   
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   > A climate in which not only can corporations, banks, and governments   
   > not restrict or tax or control our private transactions in any way   
   > -- but a climate in which it is universally acknowledged that they   
   > also have _no_ right to even _know_ what those transactions are.   
   >   
   > They are here to serve us, not the other way round. They are the   
   > peons, and we are the rulers -- not the reverse. They have no right   
   > to know ANYTHING about our transactions.   
   >   
   > We, on the other hand, have the absolute right to know everything   
   > about theirs, and restrict them if we so choose.   
   >   
   > A whole new mindset, of unalterable and immovable steel and will, is   
   > needed.   
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   > I doubt, however, that a generation of cowed and bowed dependents   
   > and yes-men can produce such a thing.   
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   > With every good wish,   
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   >   
   > Kevin Alfred Strom.   
      
      
      
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