Timing of request for comment

Duane Phillips · 2003-09-27T06:57:44+00:00

You know, I have often pondered why the BATFE would come out in the middleof an issue that is being contested before the courts, and officiallyrequest comment on those issues. Would it not look like they are trying tomake tracks fast to cover their butts? Why get this kind of stigma...better to "go with what you've got" and not rock the boat too much...Maybe I am a little slow, but it just dawned on me today... it was a "catch22".Here, NAR and TRA have been expressing/requesting subjective silence inorder to not give the other side any ammunition.But that was blown to bits by this simple little request, embedded in otherrelated/non-related baffle.Here's the catch: we the interested parties start submitting all ourreasons, basically "fleshing out" most everything our "side" possibly coulddefend with. Now, with all of these opinions submitted legally and now intheir hands, they can (and probably will) flesh out anything that can beused against the issue.BUT, if we didn't answer, then they have more power to enforce the malformedcontrols, as we would not show dissent; "we tried to get comment...".It was a perfect catch 22, and they didn't lose a lot of face doing it."What are they going to try to use?""I don't know... we don't we ask them... and if they won't talk, then we'vegot them anyway."~Duane "maybe I am just up in the night" Phillips.

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shockwaveriderz 22 years ago

Judge Reggie B.Walton was a Reagan, Bush1 and Bush 2 = appointee.....During Bush 1 he was the #2 man in that administration's = War on Drugs......

shockie B)

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Jerry Irvine 22 years ago

Whih for the record is failed and expensive at the same time.

Jerry

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David Weinshenker 22 years ago

Reputation for what? "Never having been accused of violating unjust Anti-Terrorist Regulations?" As a friend of mine said recently, "I know a lot of folks who'd consider _that_ a badge of honor!"

"When the next list of 'White House enemies' comes out, I want to be on it. My son will never forgive me - ten years from now - if I fail to clear my name and get grouped, for the record, with those whom Richard Milhous Nixon considered dangerous." (Hunter S. Thompson, June 1973)

-dave w

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