BTW, I need a gray travel consultant. Lemme know if anybody knows of one.
Will accept salt-and-pepper gray.
~Aimee
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Tim May
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 6:13 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Amtrak & The War On Drugs
>
>
> At 3:55 PM -0800 4/24/01, Raymond D. Mereniuk wrote:
> >On 24 Apr 2001, at 11:02, Ken Brown wrote:
> >
> >> You need phone numbers to buy train tickets? Why? Since when? The USA
> >> may be a wonderful country but over here where we we employ
> >
> >I believe in the original story the fellow bought a train from Phoenix
> >Arizona to Boston MA. This is a little different then buying a ticket
> >for a trip from Waterloo to Sevenoaks or London to Manchester.
> >Distance wise it is comparable to a London to Baghdad trip.
>
> However, it used to be SOP to buy train tickets at the ticket
> window--for cash and with no I.D. or phone numbers or SS numbers or
> forehead marks.
>
> It looks like the "temporary measures" to combat the "TWA 800
> bombing" sorts of events, even though TWA 800 almost certainly wasn't
> a bombing, are now spreading to the trains.
>
> "First they demanded ID and SS numbers for the airlines, but I didn't
> fly so I did nothing. Then they demanded the same for trains, but I
> didn't take trains, so I did nothing. Now they demand ID and SS
> numbers for buses and public parking lots, and my trial is next
> month."
>
> Anyone paying in untraceable funds is Assumed to be a Suspicious
> Person. Anyone not giving credit card and SS information, likewise.
>
> And in Amerika, to be a Suspicious Person is probable cause for a
> search of bags and backpacks and purses, the Fourth Amendment be
> damned.
>
> (The taking without due process, covered by other constitutional
> rights, is another matter, though the conclusion that Amerika has
> become a kleptocracy is unchanged.)
>
> Those in other countries should not sit back and smirk. France,
> Germany, and Japan are already far along in their march to statism.
> Kanada is catching up.
>
>
> --Tim May
> --
> Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corralitos, California
> Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon
> Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go
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