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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

I only know what it's like here; anyone could fill up barrels with diesel 
fuel and pay cash without raising a single question. You can get receipts 
for cash purchases; I do it all the time for tax purposes.

I feel bad if reporting people is common where you are...it isn't here.  But 
clearly you will believe what you want, what supports your world view.

Lynn Wigglesworth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Our digital trail - "Orwellian future"


> Lynn, I already said I wish I hadn't used this poor example; but, still, I 
> have to believe if a person strange to you, that wasn't an obvious farmer 
> pulled up and started filling up barrels with diesel fuel, that something 
> would be noticed.  The 'reporting' even if not law, is becoming second 
> nature for us; But, the records, the discovery will be there; through 
> receipts, cameras, times-stamps, etc.  Most farmers are going to need 
> those receipts for t*x purposes, anyway
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> --- On Mon, 12/1/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Homestead] Our digital trail - "Orwellian future"
> > To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 6:12 AM
> > > The whole deal is the combination, and I don't
> > think there are
> > > restrictions, just reporting requirements.  You say
> > part of your family
> > > owns stations.  If somweone that you didn't know,
> > pulled in in a rental
> > > truck with a bunch of barrels in the back and
> > proceeded to fil them with
> > > diesel, you wouldn't alert anyone (and what if you
> > knoticed the tons of
> > > fertilizer stacked in the >back)?.
> >
> > Bob; what you don't realize is that what you decribe is
> > a common sight, any
> > spring day in an agricultural area.  Farmers need the
> > fertilizer for their
> > spring planting of sweet corn (the field corn is usually a
> > large enough area
> > to get a hopper of fertilizer), and the diesel fuel to run
> > the tractor
> > (larger farms have the fuel delivered to the tanks on the
> > farm; smaller ones
> > transport it from the station). On the way back from
> > getting the fertilizer,
> > you drive up to the self-serve diesel punp, go in and hand
> > over the cash,
> > fill up your containers and leave. Unless the clerk knows
> > you, you are
> > anonymous, and the clerk can't see what's in your
> > truck from inside.
> >
> > Lynn Wigglesworth
> >
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