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Originally Posted by Lakegeezer
There are many ways our privacy is violated by businesses and the government but forcing citizens to show their garbage is an added violation, pure and simple. The slide down the slippery slope continues.
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? Example of "slippery slope" ...... ?
1. Sound of metal or glass heard whilst trash bag makes contact with trash recepticle.
2. Militant employee of town recycling center "forces" citizen to retrieve bag and open it for inspection.
3 Upon discovery of contraband material, dumper is "forced" into removing contraband ( even if it requires the soiling of dumper's hands ) material and further "forced" to take said material to the "proper" recepticle and deposit it there.
4. As embarassed violator drives from center, license plate number is noted and enterred into log.
5. Police Department is notified of the tag number and the nature of the recycling violation.
6. P.D. obtains residential address of violater.
7. Surveillance is set up by P.D. on violator's residence and vehicle.
8. Search warrants are sought by P.D. and are granted by the court, based on the representation of "dump violation".
9. Violator's residence and vehicle are searched. Trace of illicit material is discovered in ashtray.
10. Criminal charges are comenced against the dump violator.
11. Violator seeks legal counsel. Advance fee is more than violator wishes to pay. Violator becomes severely aggitated.
12 Violator, realizing prison term is real and likely, takes his hunting rifle and ....................................
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?"