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- From: meyers@leonardo.rtp.dg.com (Bill Meyers)
- Subject: Re: Registered Keys - why the need?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.161837.20276@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- Sender: meyers@rtp.dg.com (Bill Meyers)
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 16:18:37 GMT
- References: <Bx7v6J.1wD@portal.hq.videocart.com> <1992Nov5.214347.27535@netcom.com> <1992Nov6.134822.5000@news.yale.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov6.134822.5000@news.yale.edu> watt-alan@net.yale.edu (Alan Watt) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov5.214347.27535@netcom.com>, strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
- [ ... ]
- >|> In most of the world cars have been registered for many years, yet no
- >|> democratic government has used that as a way to confiscate cars
- >|> (except for those used in law violations).
- [ ... ]
- >True. But no government where cars are registered has (yet) promoted
- >a policy to restrict or ban private automobile ownership. When one
- >does, you can bet the registration lists will be used to aid enforcement.
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- I don't have the details, but I understand that Al Gore (new Vice President
- elect of the U.S.) favors banning all automobiles more than 10 years old.
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