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From: chu@lasspvax.UUCP (Clare Chu)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Radar Detector Legislation
Message-ID: <477@lasspvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 12:34:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: lasspvax.477
Posted: Thu Aug 22 12:34:50 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 19:47:05 EDT
References: <1081@homxa.UUCP> <55200195@trsvax>
Reply-To: chu@lasspvax.UUCP (Clare Chu)
Organization: LASSP, Cornell University
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Summary: 

In article <55200195@trsvax> mikey@trsvax writes:
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>Give ME a break!!!!  NJ is probably the state I would name for the most 
>abuse of authority for revenue of any state I've lived in or traveled
>through.  I wouldn't trust a local police officer there unless there
>were checks and balances, and a detector is my balance.  
>
  I wonder why NJ residents (and Maryland too) put up with this...
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>If the NJ law gets passed, it will just make more jammers appear, as 
>well as skyrocket the sales of units like the Radio Shack detector that
>hides up front and puts a VERY SMALL and inconspicuous control box
>in the passenger compartment.  A friend of mine mounted his in the
>ashtray of his Firebird.  Close the ashtray cover and you couldn't
>find it.  In a state such as NJ with borders to other states so close,
>any law such as this will be ineffective, as people will just cross
>over to buy units.  
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    No kidding...

>Personally, I feel I have a LEGAL and CONSTITUTIONALLY guaranteed RIGHT
>to know what the police are doing by receiving radar.  Finally, as a HAM
>radio operator, I feel I have even further RIGHTs to monitor X and K band
>transmissions.  
>
    I agree totally

>Flame all anyone wants, but direct it at *SSHOLES like the government in 
>NJ, as far as I'm concerned, you won't change my views.
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   and the federal government for withholding federal aid to any state
   that doesn't abide to 55...

>END OF DISCUSSION!
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>mikey at trsvax
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>55, it's not just a good idea, it S*CKS!
>In NJ, it's money!!!!!

55, it's a BAD idea, it S*CKS!

I wonder if the cops drive 55...