On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 02:56:36 -0800, Erik Max Francis
wrote:

Damo wrote:

A civilian is making a cruise missile in his garage in New Zealand for
less
then 5000 dollars.

He has apparently been thwarted by his own government, although his news
page isn't terribly clear:

http://www.interestingprojects.com/cruisemissile/

Quite frankly, I'm not terribly impressed with his comments; he
half-invokes conspiracy theory arguments which one hardly would need to
consider. It's common sense that, hey, you're probably violating about
a thousand different regulations with the project; the government would
have to be completely stupid not to take interest in stopping the
project for any number of common sense reasons.

The government of New Zealand told him that he was breaking no laws
or regulations with his project; they are going after him for a tax
issue. Pretty much the same way Al Capone got nailed once the feds
realized they couldn't prove he was involved with any criminal
activity.

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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability
of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - H.P. Lovecraft