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November 24th 04, 04:00 PM

From: (Leland=A0C.=A0Scott)
"harvey" wrote in message
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"Leland C. Scott" wrote in message
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| "Twistedhed" wrote in message |
... | The large
corporations continue to do business as usual while the feds pacify
insignificants with smoke and mirrors (fines).

Except when the "go to jail" part of the penalty
comes up for repeated | violations. Also don't

overlook that some of those Pilot Travel

centers may

be wholly own franchises where the owner

has to pay the fine if they get | busted. The

real fine is having to go to court to fight the

FCC, and that sounds like what may happen.

When it does it could cost them much more

than

the $125K fine depending on how far they

want to take the fight up the legal

ladder. This would be the case to watch.

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Leland C. Scott

KC8LDO

(i think a company whose one branch makes over 5 billion a yr will just
shrug this off....
harv )
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For a large company yeah you're right. But

then again if one of the executives ends up in

jail, which they can, then taking the radios off

the shelf would have looked like the smart

thing to do and then just shrug it off.

But you MUST consider the probability factor. What you propose is
deviation from the norm concerning the FCC. You have a better chance of
hitting the lotto. Not going to happen. You are discounting the monetary
factor, here. I believe you are missing the monetary picture here of why
the huge companies stay in business year after year when only the
littles ones are closed and put out of business.

Lately the government likes throwing white

collar company executives in jail for wrong

doing.

Cite a single case involving the FCC tossing a white collar exec in jail
for a similar charge.

After all just how much money are they going

to realistically loose anyway from dumping the
questionable radios from their sales line up?

Nothing, 'cause the radios aren't being dumped.

Not much is my guess. If the FCC chooses to

play hard-ball I expect they will just do what

the FCC told them to do, and not waste any

more time or money on something that won't

materially affect their bottom line.

Your position is based upon suppositions, the "if" factor, and the
assumption the FCC is changing the manner in whcih they operate, as
opposed to reality,,..business-as-usual within the FCC and minimal
enforcement. In fact, Riley has written the FCC considers many of these
complainants a pain-in-the-ass..he didn't come out and say those exact
words, but DID say these type hammies (Oxendine) are often worse than
the offenders themselves. An incredible statement from the head
enforcement officer at the FCC.

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Leland C. Scott

KC8LDO

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