From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 03:51:59 GMT
Reply-To: rmkhome!rmk@merk.com (Rick Kelly)

In article <PA146008.598.726250373@utkvm1.utk.edu> PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu (David Veal) writes:
>In article <9301041915.56@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>>In article <16B4AEBCC.PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu> PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu (David Veal) writes:
>>>In article <9301021313.22@rmkhome.UUCP>
>>>rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>>>>In article <1992Dec31.194027.1838@cbnewse.cb.att.com> random@cbnewse.cb.att.com(David L. Pope) writes:
>>>>>> The police would like to know who has guns.
>>>>>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>And it is our duty to restrict that knowledge.
>>>>
>>>>Why is that?
>>>
>>>       The same reason we don't require the police be informed for
>>>every object that could be used as a deadly weapon.  Because it's
>>>none of their business unless I use that object in a crime.  As
>>>agents of the government, the police should be watched closely.  When
>>>they get to keep records of everything that *might* develop into a crime,
>>>they might start thinking it's their job to jump in whenever somebody
>>>has the capability to commit a crime, rather than when they actually do.
>>>       In fact, it's already happened.  My favority being the quote
>>>from a Florida police officer on the war on drugs and civil forfeiture.
>>>He said, "When you take away someone's money, you take away their
>>>ability to purchase narcotics"
>>>       As someone who A) has money, and B) has never purchased narcotics
>>>I find this very, very scary.  What, then, if they decide that can
>>>prevent shootings by confiscating guns, beating by confiscating baseball
>>>bats, and child abuse by confiscating children?
>>>       And where exactly did good intentions turn into a police state?
>>
>>This could easily be an anti vehicle registration and insurance debate.
>
>        Bingo.
>
>        Vehicle registration is primarily a revenue generatining thing above
>and beyond anything else.  This is apparent even more in those states where
>you have to register a car and pay taxes on it even if you aren't going to
>use it on public roads.  (Thank heavens not here in Tennessee.)

Usually, this type of thing is a community law rather than a state law.
I know this because I've had to argue with town governments in various
places that I lived when I had 2 or 3 unregistered cars.

>>Just remember when taking money out of the bank as cash that the government
>>believes that only drug dealers use $100 bills.  
>
>        *Gag*  Right, I'll use $20s.  (Did you know *another* profile
>is that drug dealers pay in cash with small bills to avoid being noticed?)
>
>>A withdrawal of as little
>>as $1000 can get you silently reported to the government if you take it as
>>$100 bills.
>
>        Thank you, I know what the situation is.  Apparently I'm supposed
>to get my cash however the government decides to let me get my cash on
>any particular day or risk being thrown in prison for several days and 
>having my money confiscated and never returned.
>
>        You *approve* of this?

My god, no!  My money is my money.  You can't catch drug dealers by checking
their pocket change.

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