Having lived and traveled in many different places in the world, I couldn't
agree more.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of craig boyle
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 11:51
To: Michael R. Clements; Talley, Brooks; John Kelly; jeff; John J.
Stimson-III
Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Fw: CA Special Alert
There are lots of things about living in the U.S. that
struck me as a serious infringement of whatever rights
I thought I had (obsession with photo ID, SS#, traffic
stops, data privacy) - but so what? the fact is that
this is the best country in the world to live in, if
it wasn't the best, I'd up and move elsewhere asap.
So you just have to put up with some of the crap to
get the benefits. No big deal, that's how life is.
Most of the 6b people in the world would give an
important body part to live in the US, profiling and
all.
What's culturally interesting is to see what's rated
as acceptable degrees of freedom in different
countries.
Craig
--- "Michael R. Clements" <mrclem@telocity.com> wrote:
> Craig wrote:
>
> > I think they call it "profiling"
>
> Are you surprised? Profiling is a necessary result
> of any attempt to
> prosecute victimless "crimes". Without any victim to
> report the "crime" or
> to provide any description of the "criminals", the
> police have little choice
> but to poke around on their own, looking for
> "violations".
>
> Reason magazine recently had an interesting article
> on this, talking about
> case probability vs. class probabilty and stuff like
> that. However, it's
> probably of interest only to idealists. . .
>
> Regards,
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