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Old 04-17-2018, 08:53 PM   #223
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Originally Posted by Simi 60 View Post
I will never be happy about someone phone tapping, reading my emails, tracking my whereabouts, tracking what websites I go to and entering my home without permission.

What next? Disappearing people away into the night without proof of wrongdoing?
Oh wait, they do that already as well.

It might interest you to know that I live in a land where I have never once been boarded in my forty years on the water.
Funny how we can manage to have safety gear on our boats without it happening.
But then Aussie isn't somewhere that is attractive to the kind of criminals and level of criminal activity that the USCG is targeting.

It is a double edged sword. Be grateful that you don't require that level of diligence.

At the same time consider why people, other than yourselves, really don't see any opportunity your country provides, legal or otherwise.
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