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.





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.

I have agreed with you before, but this time makes the others appear
insignificant ...

Regards,
JS