From: Dick (rertman@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Feb 12 2006 - 16:31:35 PST
What do you expect in a socialist country that even has a tax on fresh air
if you
live way out in the pleasant countryside?
Dick
----- Original Message -----
They've been crushing surplus radio equipment in the
Not good!
The Governor of Massachusetts put the Hams down on a
You can't get a better reference than that!
Joe
--- dgrev <dgrev@iinet.net.au> wrote:
From: "Joe Foley" <redmenaced@yahoo.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: 12 February, 2006 16:23
Subject: Re: [MV] Anti-Radio laws
US for years now, the Amateur Radio lobby has been
powerless to stop it.
TV talk show saying they were largely useless, BUT,
there was a representative from the Salvation Army on
the same talk show that quickly corrected him, saying
that they couldn't do their job without the Hams.
> With the advent of this new French law to prohibit
> the ownership of
> MVs (not just armour!!!) we have all received a wake
> up call.
>
> Has anyone noticed a pattern here?
>
> 1st it was the US Form 6 issue, the ban on
> importation of armor (this
> spelling thing is a pain). That was eventually
> reduced to just US made
> armor - no thanks to the MVPA at that time.
>
> 2nd it was no armour in France, that one slipped
> through almost
> un-noticed?
> Why, because the number of people who own armour is
> statistically small
> even within the MV community and those affected were
> French speakers.
> Now they have moved on to any MV, mil radios etc ie,
> the all
> encompassing "implement of war" catch all, and by
> the way that can also
> mean innocuous objects like ammo boxes. (I kid
> you not, ammo boxes come with a detruction order in
> Oz - dangerous
> weapon those ammo boxes!)
>
> Over in Kansas we have Dave and his Ferret
> registration problem. Again
> it is armour being targeted.
>
> Does anyone notice a pattern here?
>
> First they go for armor/armour, once they have slid
> that one in,
> they can then go for MVs in general.
>
> This is probably the last wake up call the
> collecting community is
> going to get.
>
> I don't care if the MVPA is a predominately US club,
> it needs to be
> in there helping the French collectors as much as it
> can. We all know
> that governments copy each others laws (easier than
> thinking up new ones
> all by themselves), so don't think that if the
> French go down there
> will all of a sudden be a lot of cheap jeeps on the
> market. Because it
> won't be long before you will be fighting to keep
> that your jeep,
> whether you live in Britain, USA or elsewhere!
> The MVPA is sitting on 3/4 $million in the bank. It
> maybe they need to
> spend some of this to help the French. Doing so will
> be a heck of a lot
> cheaper than fighting it out in US courts.........
>
> Time to stop being complacent.
>
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