In a message dated Fri, 21 Dec 2001 4:09:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> A) It's unpleasant > > B) I expect a lot of stupidity from the Post Office & cops > > C) This is *not* "new McCarthyism". It's unpleasant and uncalled for and > everyone involved should immediately change their attitude, but it's in no > way even similar to what McCarthy did. > > To me the key is not whether someone gets hassled a bit at the time of the event. It is the presence or absense of long term consquences. I guess I agree with Gautam here (egads! Well at least I can torment him next year when the best team money can buy goes back to winning the World Series). What I think we want to guarentee is not the freedom from the imperfection and stupidity of our citizens but rather the codification of that imperfection. That is why I have no problem with being hasseled a bit (the guards at the hospital stop me every day to check my ID. I have worked there for twenty years and many of them have been there for just as long. But I show my ID without question and if I forget to bring it I dutifully sign in. Now it would be better if they used some common sense and focused on folks they don't know but at least they are doing what is asked of them).
