On 11/17/2011 2:20 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.

How do you propose funding government and, besides that, how do you
expect government to protect your property rights, such as your home,
if they don't even 'know' you bought/own it?

They are here to serve us,

I'm curious. How did you arrive at the theory that banks and
corporations, which are simply people engaging in "private
transactions," are "here to serve" you?

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.

Ya know, that's what Al Capone said too.

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,

Btw, strange and mysterious as it may seem I actually agree with the
nebulous gist, if not the details, of your point and, in that light,
let me mention that the theory to our form of governance holds that
governments do not have "rights" but are granted "powers." So, you are
quite correct in saying government has no "right" to know about
transactions, or anything else for that matter. The question is what
powers we wish to grant them for the purpose of our mutual benefit and
security. Like, in this instance, to be secure from having our
property stolen and fenced through 'secondhand dealers'.


Kevin Alfred Strom.

Well, true to form, you continue down an idiots path ... the public
servants are the treasonous crooks, the rich elite, corporations, NWO
types, etc. are their puppet masters ... neither are serving me.
Anyone, other than rich elite, corporations, NWO types, etc., who thinks
they are are serving them are imbeciles along with you.

Regards,
JS