NODE c71771c5Re: Internal Passports
drose@AZStarNet.comSun, 29 Dec 1996 17:10:12 -0800 (PST)
Bob Hettinga wrote:
>At 6:20 pm -0500 12/29/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
>>What I think this means is a move toward a national ID card, replacing the
>>confusing (to airlines, to government agents, etc.) mishmash of state
>>driver's licenses, student ID cards, etc.
>
>"I've found that they issue a national ID card, it's time to leave..."
> Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love", by Robert A. Heinlein
"After Austria and Germany, Switzerland is my favourite country. I have
spent the past 40 winters and 10 summers there. I love the place because
it's clean, beautiful, very conservative and its people mind their own
business."
Taki, in today's _Sunday Times_(London).
NODE 8ba65f03Re: Internal Passports
"Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>Sun, 29 Dec 1996 18:09:34 -0800 (PST)
At 6:09 PM -0700 12/29/96, drose@AZStarNet.com wrote:
>"After Austria and Germany, Switzerland is my favourite country. I have
>spent the past 40 winters and 10 summers there. I love the place because
>it's clean, beautiful, very conservative and its people mind their own
>business."
> Taki, in today's _Sunday Times_(London).
Yes, the same Germany that is restricting Internet access, that proposed to
jail Compuserve executives for allowing banned material on the Net, and
that has laws making various opinions illegal (specifically, the opinion
that the Holocaust never happened as the official version declares, or that
Aryans are superior to non-Aryans, etc.).
I enjoy all three countries, as a tourist, but I strongly doubt the "its
people mind their own business" characterization, even for Switzerland
alone (and certainly not for Germany).
--Tim May
Just say "No" to "Big Brother Inside"
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
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