XPost: rec.radio.shortwave   
   From: bit_bucket@gmx.com   
      
   On 11/16/2011 4:59 PM, 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   I have agreed with you before, but this time makes the others appear   
   insignificant ...   
      
   Regards,   
   JS   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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