Possession of stolen books - an example

[Jim Choate]

Are you a bookseller taking the book on concession? Are you listing it as
'destroyed' and then taking it to a local bookstore to sell it? No? Didn't
think so. Did the book have a cover when you bought it? Your comparison is
moot, you are ignoring who actually owns the property, and arguing that
because on one non-similar case one can do one thing then by extension
that same freedom of action extends to all others.

That's nitwit Tim.

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On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Tim May wrote:

> At 12:47 PM -0600 1/10/01, Jim Choate wrote:
> >Blueheart
> >Alison Sinclair
> >Harper Science Fiction
> >ISBN 0-06-105820-3
> >$6.50 US
> >
> >I quote from the 'fly' (or whatever it's called), the facing page to the
> >first page of chapter 1.
> >
> >"If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this
> >book is stolen property."
> >
> >They've been doing this for at least 20 years.
> 
> And incorrectly. Calling something stolen doesn't make it so. I could 
> tear the cover off a book I own and then sell it to Alice.
> 
> Publishers resort to FUD the same way TLAs do.
> 
> 
> Be sure to notify my local Sheriff's Office, in Santa Cruz County, 
> that I am committing a crime.
> 
> 
> Nitwit.
> 
> 
> --Tim May
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