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We’ve previously written about NYC’s descent into dictatorship when it banned dancing and public photography without a license. Now in its infinite wisdom, NYC wants to ban private ownership of biological, chemical, and radiological detectors without a permit.
Whatever reasons the politicians are telling us, it’s really all about controlling information. |
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NYC’s descent…
Thanks! Earlier I noticed I had “restrict” spelled as “restict” and and “counters” spelled as “conters.” I’m not having a good spelling day today!
This one would negate your intent…
Good lord.
Are you sure this is not one of the Onion’s pranks someone is taking seriously?
I can’t click on the link, firewall.
It wouldn’t be the first time my dyslexic pre-Alzheimer’s brain interfered with my intent! 😉
In the mid 1990’s the government took our fire departments Geiger counters even though we have a reactor within an hour’s drive and I-85 runs through our town.
Geez.
Man those New York politicians sure are crazy! 🙂 Yeah, isn’t the recent mayor of this city running for President of the United States, as a Republican? I’m sure he’ll do JUST as well as President as he did as mayor of New York. Er…
I don’t trust people who count Geigers.
Well, if they’re worried about people overburdening the fire departments, maybe they should ban smoke detectors, too. Hell, if they really want to ease their workload, they could even disconnect 911. That’ll drastically cut down on false alarms (and real ones too).
The feds pulled all the “Nuclear War Survival Skills” books from the repository libraries, too. Some lame excuse about the improvised radiation detector not being properly calibrated.
One of several places to get a free pdf download:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2x8evs
What does it matter? If you peg the meter you are toast anyway.
I have a CO2 detector. Where do I register it?
Where’s Scott to defend his beloved Mike Bloomie?
When geiger counters are outlawed only outlaws will have geiger counters…
Doesn’t it come to your mind that they don’t want NYers to realize part of the city is radioactive or already contaminated?
How else is the Mossad supposed to move WMDs into New York for the 9/11 anniversary false flag operation, that will allow Bush/Cheney to instate NSPD-51, suspend the elections and retaliate against Iran, which will certainly be blamed for the attack?
Hi I’m here from the Gov and I’m here to help you/Not.
When you here crap like this, you have to wonder if Bin L is winning.
Its a TAX, plain and simple. They can call it “registration” but it still comes down to you paying a fee.
Damn, is there nothing that government WON’T tax?
“you have to wonder if Bin L is winning.”
He won the first time you took your shoes off.
So buy your friggen Geiger counter, get it calibrated, and assure the DHS that you’re not going to start a national cable news panic over a crazy reading from the ambient gamma radiation in a piece of 100-year-old granite.
If Geiger Counters are outlawed, only outlaws will have Geiger Counters!
#18 – The answer is NO. Someday we’ll have to buy the forms required to file out tax returns.
SN – I’ve never misspelled anything in my life – typos however are another story…. 😉
But what about the detectors for all the other types of WMD?
“Think how many can be killed by just a tiny bit of anthrax, and think about how it’s not just that Saddam Hussein might put it on a Scud missile an anthrax head, and send it on to some city he wants to destroy. Think about all the other terrorists and other bad actors who could just parade through Baghdad and pick up their stores.”
Bill Clinton as President
“They can have my geiger-counter, when they pry it out of my cold, dead, irradiated hand…”
Didn’t NYC also band the serving of “sunny-side” up eggs in diners, to protect new yorkers from salmanila?
I’m not sure, but I do believe the City is overstepping its authority. Radiation detection is a Federal jurisdiction and thus outside the oversight of any municipal government.
This was recently tested when the Boston airport tried to regulate WiFi inside the airport. The court said no as it was solely a Federal jurisdiction and outside the boundaries of any local regulation.
@#7: Please notice that these are the actions of the CURRENT mayor of NYC who also set in motion such progressive ideas as paying kids to attend school regularly, ban “dangerous fats” from NYC restaurants and even send police to entrap potential good Samaritans (dropping wallets in subways and waiting for someone to pick them up) instead as the GOOD OLD NYC Mayor did – send police where the crime is. Neither did the old mayor waste any of city funds on such nonsense and social engineering.
So, if Mr. Bloomberg runs for President: RUN away from him. And do consider Giuliani if he remains in the race to avoid similar idiotic ideas on a country scale.
Osama Bin Ladin didn’t do this to us. We did it to ourselves by being cowards and electing alcoholic adulteress crooks to run our government for us.
We are NOT the Land of the Free or the Home of the Brave. Just a bunch of cowards wrapped in fear and willing to give up all our rights for the promise of safety that can never be delivered.
We deserve it.
I did get a geiger counter back in the 1970s though, so I would know if the lint in my navel was radioactive.