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   From: bit_bucket@gmx.com   
      
   On 11/16/2011 7:24 PM, flipper wrote:   
   > On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:59:32 -0500, Kevin Alfred Strom   
   >   wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 11/16/2011 4:45 PM, D. Peter Maus wrote:   
   >> [...]   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >> I doubt, however, that a generation of cowed and bowed dependents   
   >> and yes-men can produce such a thing.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> With every good wish,   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Kevin Alfred Strom.   
   >   
   > You might have a different opinion if you were burglarized and all   
   > your stuff was sold by 'private transactions' through a second hand   
   > dealer front man.   
   >   
   > Btw, the information only becomes available to the police in the event   
   > of a criminal investigation and it's only that transaction. There is   
   > no routine 'reporting to the government'.   
      
   Isn't that the reason we initially hired "cops" for?  I mean, I realize   
   they are no longer doing a job for the people, the citizens -- and are   
   mostly revenue generators for the town, city, county, state, feds, etc.   
     But, really, watching every dollar trade hands is NOT what we have   
   public servants and authorities for, we don't have them to "punish" us   
   ... we simply need to remind them to do the original job they were   
   created for and the things you mention are already taken care of ...   
   let's just get the public servants and cops to do the job for the people.   
      
   Regards,   
   JS   
      
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