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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Sophistication of federal investigators
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.000308.4362@alphalpha.com>
Date: 10 Jan 91 00:03:08 GMT
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In article <1991Jan7.220954.25909@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu ("J. Eric Townsend") writes:
>Is there any way for you to get reimbursed for the machine?  If not,
>then the SS doesn't even *need* evidence -- they just hit you, confiscate
>equipment, and return it a week later in non-functional condition.

This is related to another increasingly popular technique which is
roughly "sue them until they can't afford it any more".  This has happened
with businesses moving into small towns where citizens are trying to
change the zoning laws (or see that they are enforced).  It is also
being used against "Adam and Eve", a mail-order house specializing
in erotic videos and sexual items.  The feds have threatened to bring
suit against them in every state in the Union - one at a time.
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.