Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Persecuted for using tripod in public
From: "Tom Schofield" <tdschofield@email.msn.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:13:14 -0800
References: <000a01c08d33$ef2c99e0$6401a8c0@Workgroup>

I saw a news program on Brazil's bureaucracy a few years back.  People would
actually have to prove they were not deceased and not married to get welfare
benefits!  The program stated that an incoming President cut out a lot of
this nonsense by ordering that the bureaucracy was not to presume people are
lying unless there is evidence to that effect.

Tom

> You win that one!   Mindless bureaucrats!!!
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
> > Making the taxpayer prove a negative (no pun intended) seems to be an
> > ingrained habit of mindless bureaucrats.
> > Oliver Bryk
> >
> Before I can get married in spain, I have to prove that I am single...
>
> Julian

Replies: Reply from "julianthomas.terra.es" <julianthomas@terra.es> (Re: [Leica] Persecuted for using tripod in public)
In reply to: Message from "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> (RE: [Leica] Persecuted for using tripod in public)