Comment Re:Fun ideas... (Score 1) 650
An interesting test case, to be sure, to see if you could provoke something by choosing to purchase stamps wearing a full face black balaklava or ski mask or hockey mask or Ben Franklin mask or anything else you choose for the camera, while prominently displaying your legal I.D. elsewhere on your person, off camera.
Where, exactly, is the line the government has stealthily slipped toward tyranny as we comfortably, (or squirmingly), sit tight in the ever warming water like a frog in a stewpot?
What? Now I can't buy stamps without proving my identity? I should be glad. It's a great boon!
Of course, I should sacrifice some false perception of privacy and liberty for the great protection that automatically comes to me and all my fellow citizens by the deterrent value of having the government capture images of all postal system users. This works as a deterrent because, if a parcel explodes in transit, they can piece together the bar codes and collect the pieces and trace it back to an old photo of a terrorist (who would have been willing to die anyway,) as he mailed his malevolent parcel days or weeks before. All citizens should be willing to be photographed as a small price to pay, a small increment on the slippery slope of faux freedom fallen aside, for the great value of this deterrent. Huh?
Where, exactly, is the line the government has stealthily slipped toward tyranny as we comfortably, (or squirmingly), sit tight in the ever warming water like a frog in a stewpot?
What? Now I can't buy stamps without proving my identity? I should be glad. It's a great boon!
Of course, I should sacrifice some false perception of privacy and liberty for the great protection that automatically comes to me and all my fellow citizens by the deterrent value of having the government capture images of all postal system users. This works as a deterrent because, if a parcel explodes in transit, they can piece together the bar codes and collect the pieces and trace it back to an old photo of a terrorist (who would have been willing to die anyway,) as he mailed his malevolent parcel days or weeks before. All citizens should be willing to be photographed as a small price to pay, a small increment on the slippery slope of faux freedom fallen aside, for the great value of this deterrent. Huh?
