Lew Hodgett wrote:
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Really, is that how it worked in Britain, Australia and Canada,
registration didn't precede bans and confiscations?

Personally could care less, I don't live in those places.

Lew

you should. this old saying comes to mind:

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a
Jew;
And then... they came for me... And by that time there was no one left to
speak up."
Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)