[internetworkers] "Real ID" bill
Jim Allman
jim at ibang.com
Tue Feb 15 12:32:09 EST 2005
On Feb 15, 2005, at 11:45 AM, B wrote:
> Now it's only the paranoid fringe who remember and are concerned with
> this gathering of power, and they are dismissed easily (as Jim has
> illustrated).
Hm, I guess I should have put this in all caps:
"NOT THAT THE ENTIRE TOPIC SHOULD BE DISMISSED OUT OF HAND."
I'm simply saying that extraordinary claims require extraordinary
evidence. And no, I haven't taken the time to go down the rabbit hole
and read 1000 web pages of this stuff. It'll sit in the back of my mind
along with a lot of other interesting/implausible propositions, and
I'll watch for patterns.
> "The press" is not a Magical Priesthood of Knowing Everything
I don't expect journalists to be any more long-sighted or principled
that the rest of us. And I agree with you that the best way to hide a
secret is to make it a mind-crushing bore to unravel. But I also
believe that ego at least will drive reporters to chase and uncover the
grand conspiracy theories, if they stand up to scrutiny.
In this case, don't you have to believe that the legal profession
(another bunch of hyper-disciplined foot soldiers;-) have all agreed to
never mention the ongoing state of emergency, even when it would give
them an edge in court? On this and other topics, I'm quite prepared to
be both wrong and astonished. In the meantime, I'll keep paying may
taxes with funny money and drinking the flouridated water.
But hey, I believe that acupuncture works. And I know what happened to
the streetcars. And I am certainly concerned about concentration of
power in the executive branch.
=jimA=
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Jim Allman
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