Bob W wrote:
Hi,
[...]
I personally do not see what is the big outcry about passports. You intend to
vote, you register to vote. You intend to drive a vehicle, you get a driver's
licence. You intend to travel to another country, you get a passport.
Acquiring the appropriate documents to do certain things has been a fact of
life, worldwide, for a very long time now -- and passports in particular are
nothing new.
[...]
We're trying to do away with them in Yurp.
--
I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
--P.J. O'Rourke
