I had always heard ( and believed) that our law here was patterned after
English Commo Law - until I lived in England for 6 plus years. No Way Jose.
Things were done totally different between the two, and then you throw in
the English Colony of Hong Kong, and it was even more confusing.
I got several calls from a fellow ham who was a high ranking police officer
in HK, asking me to translate American English for him. He delt with
foreign police agencies, concerning law breakers who affected both
countries, etc. One letter in particular give me the willie yet. The Los
Angles police had sent him a letter, and he deduced exactly the opposite
reply to one of his letter, than I did. I dont remember the wording but how
it all came out was he though the LA Police were telling him they were NOT
going to return a crook to HK, when what they said was that they WERE.
The greatest difference in England and the United States is our common
language.
By the way, my license here in the states is a small piece of paper, with my
call, name, license class on it. My license in England was about 6 double
sided pages of informatiion as to what I could, or could NOT do.
Danny Douglas N7DC
ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA
SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB all
DX 2-6 years each
.
QSL LOTW-buro- direct
As courtesy I upload to eQSL but if you
use that - also pls upload to LOTW
or hard card.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "jhaynesatalumni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <digitalradio@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:40 AM
Subject: [digitalradio] Re: Gray Areas of Ham Radio Regulations and Rules
> The cross-cultural part of this discussion reminded
> me of a broadcast by the late Alistair Cooke. He had
> just read a book by a U.S. lawyer, who asserted that
> the thicket of regulations in the U.S. covering
> every aspect of the law had begun with the Johnson
> administration and the War on Poverty. Cooke
> countered with an example of gasoline rationing in
> World War II. In England there were allotments of
> gasoline made to various local councils, which were
> empowered to distribute it at their discretion. In
> the U.S. there were very detailed regulations at the
> federal level governing how gasoline would be allotted
> to individuals. This happened to cause a particular
> hardwhip with an English military officer who was
> stationed in the U.S. for liaison with the U.S.
> military. His position had not been thought of when
> the gasoline regulations were drawn up, so he had no
> allocation of gasoline and had difficulty performing
> his important assignment. It took quite a bit of work
> to get his situation taken care of.
>
> This led me to thinking about philosophical differences in
> U.S. and English legal systems. In England the gasoline is
> theoretically the king's to distribute; and he appoints
> agents to do the detailed work. Theoretically the king is
> righteous and appoints righteous agents and the gasoline is
> distributed fairly. If you feel unfairly treated your recourse
> is to complain to the king, who may replace the corrupt agent
> or may sustain the agent, in which case you are out of luck.
>
> In the U.S. the founding assumption is that kings and their
> agents will be corrupt sooner or later, so the constitution has
> many checks and balances to prevent any government agent from
> having too much power. This philosophy pervades the whole system,
> so that individuals are not given much discretion in applying the
> law; there are vast bodies of regulations spelling out precisely
> how the law is to be applied in every imaginable situation. The
> notion that a local committee could allocate a supply of gasoline
> to its constituents fairly is regarded as wishful thinking and
> absurd.
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