[Rockhounds] for those in New York City w/an interest in radioactivity

[Jeffrey T. Cessna]

Pete,

Here is the opening from the New York Village Voice, if that helps 
finding the article by other than the link. The link still worked 
when I checked it. Perhaps? your mail program? is adding? secret? 
characters.? I also tried deleting the characters not in my original 
mail from the quoted text below.

NYPD Seeks an Air Monitor Crackdown for New Yorkers
A city councilman and the cops don't want you to have that Geiger 
counter without their permission
by Chris Thompson
January 15th, 2008 5:13 PM

The article opens with the news that the police have not, in fact, 
spent lots of money and time chasing down bad leads from people with 
their own detectors, but NYPD's deputy commissioner for 
counterterrorism feels it is just a matter of time.

I should note that no specific detectors are mentioned. The proposed 
law apparently refers to any instrument capable of detecting 
biological, chemical, or radiological weapons. A different article 
had an interesting statement that once you have your free five year 
permit for your detector, you are required to report any 
contamination you detect. I guess they check their list of approved 
detectors to see if they should ignore your likely false positive.

Apparently there was a fair bit of opposition to the "trust us with a 
blank check" nature of the proposal.

All that said, I didn't mean to start a discussion of the merits, 
merely to enlighten people that they may one day inadvertently commit 
a(nother) misdemeanor.

Cheers, Jeff

At 02:50 PM 1/29/2008, you wrote:
>Anybody have any guidance as to how to access that web page?? I 
>can't, I just get,
>
>"Sorry, I couldn't find what you were looking for(0803,thompson,78873,2.html)"
>
>But?that is indeed way sure ridiculous.? "When radiation detectors 
>are outlawed, only outlaws will have..." ; seems like civil 
>liberties people would have something to say about this.? Plus some 
>groups would no doubt take it as evidence that the government (or 
>the U.N.)?is planning to spray our cities with radioactive poison 
>and doesn't want us to know about it.? Although I must say, anything 
>that would reduce the number of those ludicrous incidents where 
>people call out the Police, Hazmat squad, National Guard, EPA, 
>Homeland Security, and Ghostbusters each time someone finds a 
>slightly radioactive rock sample in a school's science classroom, 
>would be of some merit...
>
>cheers, Pete M.
>
>
>http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0803,thompson,78873,2.html



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