🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:57:36 -0600, you wrote:

>last been to Cuba.  They asked me all kinds of questions about what I
>had been doing in Europe, where I had been, whom I had seen.  I now
>realize that this is the new U. S. after 9/11.  We have to make sure
>that all civil rights are not taken away.  I see now where they will be
>using computers to check on all travelers even in the U. S."

Howdy,

Little pieces of information can be dangerous.  When mixed with how an
agitated individual remembers history, it gets even worse.  While taking
extreme stands to defend against terrorisim, we will be generating and have
to tollerate another form of terrorism.

As individuals, we really won't be given any choice in the matter.  We will
either submit to being branded in some form to allow quick and easy computer
identification or stop traveling and the need to use banks and large stores.

A photo ID card with an embeded computer chip, probably won't work.

When I go the grocery store, the clerk smiles and says hello Chris and knows
my checks are good.  In many ways, it would be nice to have that same kind of
recognition wherever I go.  At the same time, I really don't want the alarms
going off when I go into a store because I was late getting my driver's
license renewed.  I also know that electronically, whatever system they
decide to use is going to goof up now and then.

The foolish terrorists that started this have no idea about the contents of
the Pandora's Box they have opened.

Chris