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- Date: 23 Dec 1992 15:36:22 -0500
- From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@graphics.cornell.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
- Subject: Re: Radar Detector Prohibitions
- Message-ID: <comp-privacy1.118.3@pica.army.mil>
- Organization: Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics
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- X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 118, Message 3 of 9
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- In <comp-privacy1.116.1@pica.army.mil> rj@cadre.com (Rob deFriesse) writes:
-
- >While it is illegal to ban any reciever, the law also states that it
- >is illegal to use a reciever in the commision of a crime. This is
- >how they justify the prohibition of radar dectectors.
-
- >The problem I have with this is that a radar detector prohibition
- >assumes that a crime has or will be commited even though there
- >may be no proof of the crime. The counter argument is that a radar
- >detector is good for only one thing: to facilitate the violation
- >of speed limits. This is not good enough. The law is clear.
- >Receivers are always legal unless used to commit a crime.
-
- OK, I'm with you this far, but then you add:
-
- >If
- >there is no proof of a crime, there is no crime.
-
- Oops, now you've gone too far. If I murder your sister and you have no
- proof, I've still committed a crime. Not getting caught doesn't make me
- innocent.
-
- -Mitch Collinsworth
- mitch@graphics.cornell.edu
-
-