Re: Anti-Radio laws

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 -----
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

They've been crushing surplus radio equipment in the
US for years now, the Amateur Radio lobby has been
powerless to stop it.

Not good!

The Governor of Massachusetts put the Hams down on a
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.

You can't get a better reference than that!

Joe

--- dgrev <dgrev@iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Everyone
>
> 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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