The CIA can legally force bookstore owners to tell them what books you buy.
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The CIA can legally force bookstore owners to tell them what books you buy.
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Thats why I always pay cash, and when asked for zip code and name, etc. I always make up one on the spot, or just tell the cashier I don't participate in those sorts of questions....
Just tell them your address is
1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW
WASHINGTON DC 20500-0001
and they can go bug the president about it :D
And I was hoping no-one would know about those Anne Rice pornos. :eek:
Why do I have to give my zip code when I go to buy a watch battery at Radio-small-dwelling-abode?
The guy wouldn't let me get the battery until I gave him the info! I cracked and lied.
You buy anything on credit card and there's a record. Working at a bank, I see the records and have to archive them. We're federally mandated to keep all transaction histories for something like 12 years, maybe more.
I'm not paranoid. I just accept the fact that there's not much left to privacy and my life is boring as hell. Feel free to dig though my shopping reciepts... I eat a lot of chicken.
The two locate Radio shacks around were I live don't take your address anymore. I guess they are doing it nation wide.Quote:
Originally posted by drewmaztech
Why do I have to give my zip code when I go to buy a watch battery at Radio-small-dwelling-abode?
The guy wouldn't let me get the battery until I gave him the info! I cracked and lied.
humm radio shack used to take phone #'s and street addy's but they dont anymore well around these parts :D
And anotomically correct oranges.... :D :DQuote:
Originally posted by drewmaztech
I'm not paranoid. I just accept the fact that there's not much left to privacy and my life is boring as hell. Feel free to dig though my shopping reciepts... I eat a lot of chicken.
Oh yes - anatomically correct oranges.
Can't live without those.
PuterGkGrl, email me - I lost your addy.
I head about this. It's BS.
I heard the argument that in post 9/11 america we need to alow the government this sort of power. NO. Sorry. Terrorists are not going to go to Borders to buy their handbooks.
I do not want someone starting down the slippery slope of spying on innocents intelectuals. The 1st people an opressive government comes after are the gun owners followed by the intelectuals (who happen to read more). Sure it's to help profile people but it could be done IN THE OPEN and information gathered after someone PROVEN a terrorist.
If you want to argue that "in a war time situation we often need to give up rights" , well lets have congress declair a war then. things work differently then and our rights may be legally suspended but NOT IN PEACETIME.
It bugs the hell out of me that our government does so much that is illegal and no one says boo. Not a peep. It's sickening.
I applaud the store owners who destroyed their records.
Yeah, my name is Andrew Jackson, my zip code is 20.00, now gimme the damn book.
Funny you should mention this, in Canada, income tax was introduced as a "temporary wartime measure". Well the World Wars are long gone, but guess what has remained and steadily increased...?Quote:
Originally posted by ilovetheusers
If you want to argue that "in a war time situation we often need to give up rights" , well lets have congress declair a war then. things work differently then and our rights may be legally suspended but NOT IN PEACETIME.
Same deal in the US...during WWI, I believe.Quote:
Originally posted by Wayward Clam
Funny you should mention this, in Canada, income tax was introduced as a "temporary wartime measure". Well the World Wars are long gone, but guess what has remained and steadily increased...?
Funny how a few "small" changes over time and enough un-repealed "temporary" measures can reduce a guy's personal freedom to nil. Over the last hundred or so years, we have pi$$ed away our independence and are fast spiraling toward the crushed and subjugated existence that our forefathers dedicated their very lives to saving us from. To make matters worse, we've allowed the very men we've elected to protect us to make the system so infinitely complex, that changing it would be damned near impossible. Unless of course you're up for another revolution...
When someone tells you that you can make a change, don't believe the hype. I'm not being cynical, I'm being a realist.
Unfortunately, we've no one to blame but ourselves.
Oh, well...back to the salt mines.
I buy my books with cash or debit card, never been asked for anything extra. I buy from the big name stores, Half Price, Barnes and Noble, BookStop, Dalton, and so on. Hmmmm
To the CIA,
Why would I buy anything from a bookstore that I can download from the internet...besides pr0n.
Larommi (not my real name but you knew that already.)
PS. The Cat in the Hat is not going to attack.
I forget who said it, but I remember a quote that went something along the lines of "Can you believe this country was founded as a PROTEST against high taxes?" :D :D :DQuote:
Originally posted by Blackhawk
Same deal in the US...during WWI, I believe.
The CIA just sent me your Debit card number, bank account # home address and Shoe size! They say stop buying books with teh gay pron and Cobra's autobiography.... wait those are the same section in the Dewey Decimal system.Quote:
Originally posted by Cleetus
I buy my books with cash or debit card, never been asked for anything extra. I buy from the big name stores, Half Price, Barnes and Noble, BookStop, Dalton, and so on. Hmmmm
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