Warning: idealistic statements to follow.
I totally agree with you Craig, but the very best part of this country is
that we're supposed to have the right to change things that we don't like.
Being the best is not an excuse to not be better.
Just because people are complaining about things they don't like, doesn't
mean that they're not grateful for what they have. It's the American way of
thinking, I think things could always be a little better. Just like racing,
I always think I can go a little bit faster.
The question, probably for another listserv, is how do we exercise our
rights to change what we don't like. Choosing the lesser of two idiots
every election doesn't seem to be getting us anywhere.
Don't say I didn't warn you,
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: craig boyle [mailto:craig_autox@yahoo.com]
> 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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