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Re: LAST WORD 6/17/97//OHIO AS FAR report: Driving rights in jeopardy

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From: Tim Brown
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 00:00
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Jack Zucker <jaz@gwis.com> writes:

>Tim Brown wrote:
>> MARYLAND: THE MODEL FASCIST STATE!
>> 
>> As illogical and invasive as Utah is, its public policies have never been
>> as tyrannical as Maryland has become just this spring.
>>         In April alone, the state of Maryland--which was also the first to
>> require involuntary servitude from high school students and to propose a
>> tax to punish Internet users--passed laws to:
>> 
>>         * Put hidden cameras at traffic lights to take secret photographs
>> of license plates of vehicles that run afoul of red lights.

>How horrible! Imagine actually trying to catch people who break
>laws...Or is it like a tree falling in the forrest when noone is there
>to hear it ?

Yes.

>>         * Ban loud car radios on highways, even in rural areas.

>I think you're wrong there. If I remember correctly, they passed
>ordinances limiting the DB levels of music on city streets, not on
>highways.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.  It is for rural highways.

>>         * Prohibit "minors" from purchasing butane lighters--supposedly so
>> they don't inhale the gas.

>What's wrong with that?

It is fascist.  That's what's wrong with it.

>Tim, how do you feel about minors receiving  ADULT SENTENCES for crimes
>?

I think it's bullshit.

>You can't have it both ways. 

Yes you can.
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From: bathroom@iglou2.iglou.com (Tim Brown)
Subject: Re: LAST WORD 6/17/97//OHIO AS FAR report: Driving rights in jeopardy
Date: 1997/06/16
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