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XXXXXXXXXX,

Red Lodge,

Bury St Edmunds,

Suffolk

Near IP28 XXX

21st January 2011

Joanne Osborne,

Customer Services,

TV Licensing,

Bristol,

BS98 1TL

NOTICE

Your Ref: 2975323738

Dear Joanne,

I am in receipt of your demand for a TV licence renewal which I attach. I have recently become aware of the

implications of a licence of any description both in law and otherwise and quite frankly, I find your demand to be

highly insulting.

Requesting a licence is in effect, begging permission from a superior, to undertake some activity. Your demand

that I request a licence from you has to be on the basis that I accept you personally as superior to myself and that

I am subservient to you. That, understandably, I find offensive and I do not accept that I am subservient to you.

The whole concept of the licence itself is ridiculous. I am a sovereign human being, born equal to all other human

beings, and with all of the God-given rights and entitlements of every human being. I do not need your permission

to make a cup of tea. I am fully entitled to make a cup of tea as that action does not harm anyone else. I do not

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