At 03:43 PM 9/29/01, Jeroen wrote: >At 01:44 28-9-01 -0500, Ronn Blankenship wrote: > >>>First you people complain when you have to start carrying ID cards, then you >>>complain when you no longer have to carry them. Could you people make up >>>your minds about what you want? :) >> >> >>Ironically, this comes from a person who a few days ago objected to a >>two-letter abbreviation for the "Secret Service" because of what another >>organization with those initials did 60 years ago. How quickly some seem >>to forget . . . > >How are ID cards and the abbrevation "BS" related to me objecting to the >abbreviation "SS" for Secret Service? Both the relevance and the irony >escape me...
Well, IIRC I've never used the term "BS" in relation to you. I don't even know what degrees you have . . . ;-) My comment about the SS (the Schutzstaffel, not the Secret Service) is in recognition of the fact that what some people in the US don't like about the idea of a national ID card is that requiring everybody to carry "papers" may be followed sooner or later by a requirement to stop and show those papers frequently, as we here in the US have seen countless times in films depicting life in the former Soviet Union or under the Nazis: the jackbooted thug with a submachine gun slung under his arm demanding, "Your papers, please, comrade . . . " -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
