Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!chu 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 Lines: 45 Summary: In article <55200195@trsvax> mikey@trsvax writes: > > > >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... > >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. > 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. > and the federal government for withholding federal aid to any state that doesn't abide to 55... >END OF DISCUSSION! > >mikey at trsvax > >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...