Re: Want to build your own alarm gizmo?

[tourman <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 22, 9:11=A0am, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Apr 22, 12:06=A0am, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Apr 19, 11:45 pm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > On Apr 19, 9:18 pm, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > > On Apr 19, 1:13 pm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > > My background is quite varied also.
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> > > > By the way, I hear/read that there's some easing up of the restrict=
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> > > > firearms laws up your way.
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> > > RHC: Yes and no ! There is a private members bill that has passed two
> > > of three readings needed to eliminate the long gun registry once and
> > > for all. This politically motivated "white elephant" has cost the
> > > Canadian taxpayer over $2 billion dollars so far and has done
> > > virtually nothing to either assist the police in investigating crime
> > > or realistically prevented crime in any way. However, with the recent
> > > proroging of Parliament for several months, its given the anti gun
> > > extremists time to scuttle around trying to stack the committee
> > > studying it before third and final reading, with equally anti gun
> > > members of Parliament. This tactic may or may not work. At this point=
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> > > it's an even split whether or not it will pass and finally be
> > > eliminated. Thank God we finally have at least a shadow of a gun lobb=
y
> > > now which has so far done a fairly credible job of getting the truth
> > > out.
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> > > You have to know the politics of the Canadian culture to really
> > > appreciate how deeply engrained the anti gun sentiment is in this
> > > country. Sometimes I think all non gun owning citizens in this countr=
y
> > > have been brainwashed by a left leaning, holier than thou, political
> > > "elite" who really believe that the average citizen is a complete
> > > idiot, and can think no deeper than the last violent movie he or she
> > > has seen. I believe they believe that the average citizen is not to b=
e
> > > trusted with a gun, and these sorts of restrictive and unnecessary
> > > laws go a long way to promoting their anti gun goal of "social
> > > engineering" guns out of society over the longer term. Horror stories
> > > of shootings south of our border do nothing to ease community fears
> > > about the general ownership of firearms; however, that same reporting
> > > media never look any deeper than the thrill factor side of reporting.
> > > If they did, they would see a very different truth existing - one
> > > backed up by facts and accurate statistics - and one it seems that
> > > same "political elite" don't want the public to know about.
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> > > Remember, this is the country that gave its highest honour - the Orde=
r
> > > of Canada - to the woman who spearheaded the passing of the
> > > legislation bringing the long gun registry into being to start with !
> > > Enough said.....
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> > I sympathize with your concerns and observations.
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> > The Order of Canada. ....... Sad. When I hear things like that I just
> > get a very helpless feeling.
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> > Here, =A0statistically, in most of the states have the least restrictiv=
e
> > firearms laws, the lower the crime. I never hear that in the news
> > reports.
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> > Oh well.
>
> > It seems that the sheep ..... ummmm .. I mean meek, actually HAVE
> > inherited the earth. Unfortunately they'll destroy it in the process.
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> RHC: The only time I've ever been ashamed to say I was a Canadian was
> when I heard this abomination of an appointment....our highest honour
> given to a liar and an extremist.!!!!!
>
> Just the other day, the leader of our Liberal Party (akin to your
> Democrats only farther left) has publicly told his MP's on the
> committee they are not allowed to vote their conscience on this Bill.
> They are expected to vote along party lines to keep the registry
> simply because it's a past Liberal "accomplishment". These idiots
> sense that the public are finally coming to their senses about
> wasteful programs and restrictive government activities of all sorts
> and are desperate to keep the "status quo". This would permit the
> maintaining of a large useless bureaucracy to continue the ineffective
> registry.
>
> Their main argument is that the police have a way of knowing which
> household has guns in it prior to going there. These dimwits seem to
> forget that the authorities already know it from the Firearms
> Aquisition Cerificate gun licensing program, so a database to keep the
> information about individual firearms is redundant and can only be
> used to further restrict certain types of firearms in the future when
> some bureaucrat decides that such and such a gun is deemed dangerous
> to public safety (whatever the hell that means...).
>
> I know and shoot with a lot of police officers. To a man they tell me
> the whole thing is a joke from their perspective. As one said to me,
> if he doesn't always prepare for the worst when going on a call, he
> will end up dead someday. The registry does nothing for him. The
> registry is nothing more than "pap for the public" to make the
> government look like it's doing something against crime !!
>
> So you have to ask the question, what is it's real purpose. I think we
> both know the real answer to that question !!!!!!!!!!!!

RHC: BTW, I forgot one of the most telling parts of this story.

The Association of Chiefs of Police have stated they support this gun
registry even though the rank and file largely don't. So the question
is ..."why". The answer would seem to be that the Association receives
large donations from the company who has been mandated to manage the
computer system that makes up the registry. That same company has
designed and then thrown out the system many times over the years,
which is a large part of why the cost of the registry has ballooned to
such obscene levels.

Lets see....conflict of interest, mismanagement of the registry, total
incompetence by the designers, no overseeing of the contractor doing
the work, no rendering of competitive tenders after the first
screwup.......how many ways can I count the incompetence and
criminality of this boondoggle ?

And they want to continue doing business as usual.....wtf !!!!