From: Phil Osborn (philosborn2001@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 19:50:53 MDT
It's rather fascinating how many off-post emails of
support I've gotten - all from men so far who wish to
remain unnamed. This has happened in previous
discussions of a similar nature on the extropy list.
I was reminded of the level of intimidaion that can be
easilly brought to bear to cut off discussions about
sacred cows while watching Bill Marr (sp?) on
Politically Correct last night. Bill started the ball
rolling on his support of an idea that I put out on
this list soon after 9-11 - that a safe-card might be
in order to facilitate security and reduce its impact
upon normal life. That is, you could volunteer to be
checked out thoroughly by the FBI, presumeably,
telling them whatever they wanted to know that would
be necessary to exclude you from the group of likely
security risks. Carrying the resulting ID card would
speed you through various security related lines at
airports, etc.
I went a step further, suggesting a prior consent to
further investigation as necessary, including drug
interrogation, but only with very good cause and
multiple safeguards against misuse.
Anyway, Bill could not even present a single complete
sentence of the idea without being instantly shouted
down by these two women guests. I mean, literally, he
never got one single sentence in. Of course, he could
have continued talking, but then he would have
appeared as rude and overbearing, and women make 85%
of the consumer purchases in America....
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