Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:40 AM 3/3/2007, Mark Rabiner wrote: >I'm bringing mine and I'm not worried. I'm hoping to have mine adjusted. If >they manage to figure out how to pull the lever out I'm going to get >busted? >For what? That looks like a weapon I don't think so. Its a lever which >winds >your film. >I'm not worried. >This is a recurrent lug thread theme. >If anyone ever once ever gets busted for a Rapidwinder it would certainly >vindicate these recurrent lug threads but I don't think its ever going to >happen. I just don't think it will. Not even in 1984. Or 20001. If we ever >live that long. I think the Russians will fire their missiles at as long >before then. Mark Calm down and listen. They cannot "bust" you. They simply will tell you to toss the camera into the nearest trashcan if you want to board the aircraft. When you you tell them that the offending base (and I do find the Rapidwinder a useless base, though I do not regard it as offensive) is removeable, they will then, reasonably in their view, tell you to remove the base and toss the Rapidwinder into the nearest trashcan. You really have no choice. First, you are dealing with Gummit Employees and we have had this conversation enough times so that you know my belief that only subnormal intelligence types ever get Gummit jobs. Second, if you object, you get arrested. Don't blame me: I suspect that your Congressman voted for this. (My former and present Congressman both voted for it, and both know my objections: my former Congressman keeps running into me every time I'm in Roanoke and I keep giving him hell about this absurdidty of a Patriot Act and in demanding that he support the Fair Tax Proposal, HR 25.) In other words, you won't be arrested for having a camera with a Rapidwinder. They will simply tell you to throw it away. If you object, then you CAN be arrested, and can face up to five years (working from memory) for resisting a Federal agent. Truly, this is the Reichshauptministerium f?r Heimhats Sicherheidsdeinst? Himmler would have loved to have had a title such as the "Secretary for Homeland Security". The system is rotten and foul and ought to be broken to shards. Thank God that free speech still counts in the US. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!