Ihre Ausweis, Bitte

From: thereheis99@hotmail.com (Rev. Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Oct 18, 2001 6:17 PM

The headline story in the local rag today
(http://www.azstarnet.com/star/today/11018identity.card-pmb2fjmd.html)
has to do with the intense interest the Bosh administration is showing
in a proposal for a national ID card. This proposal is being pushed
hard by Larry Ellison, head of Oracle, and my nomination for
hypocritical asshole of the year. (Nowhere, however, does he explain
HOW this plan will increase public safety. I have trouble seeing how
any of the recent attacks would have been thwarted if such a system
was already in place.) Despite the fact that Oracle stands to make
millions on this plan, ol' Larry has the temerity to say that anyone
who might consider his proposal to be a little self-serving is
"cynical and bizarre."

Of course, you old philanthropist you, your sole concern is the safety
of the citizens of the country, and the fact that this Nazi-esque plan
will increase your vast fortune has NOTHING to do with your advocacy
of it. There's a line between willing suspension of disbelief and
outright stupidity, I suppose...

Then again, it seems that plenty of our fellow citizens are miles
behind the wrong side of that line. Just as an example, check out the
E-Z-2-Read bar charts of the polls in the article in yonder link.
Example: sixty-three percent (63%) of responents are in favor of "law
enforcement monitoring of Internet discussions in chat rooms and other
forums." Then again, who's to say that's not been going on for some
time now. (HI, OFFICER!)

Back when I was in high school, I got hold of a Loompanics catalog in
order to try to get a fake I.D., to ease the beer purchasing process.
Loompanics was (and presumably still is) great; they had a whole
section on fake I.D. When I read that article, I immediately recalled
the preface to that section. It featured a graphic of a man with his
hands raised while another man - complete with greatcoat, peaked cap,
and swastika armband - went though his pockets. The caption said
something to the effect of "Anyone who wonders why we have a section
on fake I.D. should take a good, long look at that picture." Indeed.

I should not be the least bit surprised to hear that the gub'mint
determines that the source of this extremely-overblown anthrax scare
is "domestic terrorists," or some other in-country scapegoat. The
frightened herd will line up to get their I.D. cards, forearm tattoos,
retinal scans, etc.

Yeah, well, as you may have been able to tell from the tone of some of
my other posts, I'm pretty pessimistic about the situation. I sure as
FUCK hope I'm wrong, but in the meantime I think the best advice I've
seen so far is Nu Monet's prescription for slack.

SLACK! SLACK! SLACK WILL SEE US THROUGH THESE DIFFICULT TIMES!

Then comes the vengeance.

YFNR

Rev. Crawford
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