Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980710020431.006aee78@tscnet.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 19:04:31 -0700
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: stephen <syahn@tscnet.com>
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Hull ID numbers for US Coast Guard
At 12:06 AM 7/9/98 -0600, you wrote:
>> Wayne Eden wrote:
>
>> Without the legal 12 digit Hull ID # your kayak can be impounded--they
>> won't worry with boarding it, they'll just yank her aboard and drop you,
>> sans kayak, at the dock.
>
>This type of thing really scares me. I mean where is all this government
>stuff going? A man or woman cannot own a kayak without a liscence or
>registration?
>This is cause for a Boston Tea Party revisited 1998 style. I am persuaded that
>vestiges
>of a totalitarian state are very near and rationally conclude that freedom and
>the
>preservation of the Republic has been lost in this century.
>
>Consider this in view of threatened registration of kayaks in Canada as well;
>that there are fourteen signposts to slavery already posted in our mutual
>societies.
>If anyone cares I will post those privately as it is not in the scope of this
>discussion
>group and I know I am close to the line with this comment.
>
>Any attempt to restrict movement within the USA or Canada is one of those
>signposts. Serial number for insurance purposes and claim identification is one
>thing but for the sake of control by governments being able to impound your
>kayak
>for not having registration? We have a serious loss of freedom. As I see it
>anyway.
>
>Philip Wylie
>
>