Text 15279, 55 rader
Skriven 2008-05-13 10:31:12 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 15239 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
Ärende: Unrest in France
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12 May 08 05:52, Bob Ackley wrote to Robert Bashe:

 RB>> As long as you live in a small town in Texas and never have any
 RB>> contact with the outside world except for the Internet, you may be
 RB>> right. At least subjectively.

 BA> Obviously he hasn't taken an airplane trip anyplace since then.

That's odd. I flew to San Diego in 2005 to retrieve my Z28, which I stored
for the duration of the move to Texas. That was out of San Antonio
Inter'l to San Diego Inter'l. I recall telling of the flight here, which
was on a Canadian built aircraft. It certainly needed more wing area.

 BA> I will not go *near* an airport, let alone into one.  And TSA has
 BA> extended its mandate to include some (and before too long all)
 BA> railroad terminals and bus terminals (and eventually checkpoints at
 BA> every road that crosses a state line).

BS*

 BA> Actually the Chinese were brought to this country to build the
 BA> Southern Pacific Railroad line eastward from the Bay Area to meet the
 BA> Union Pacific Railroad coming west.  The two met at Promontory Point,
 BA> UT, which is on the north side of the Great Salt Lake.

Actually, many of them were already here, having built two seperate runs
of a California railroad.

 RW>>> I'm looking all about and all I see is freedom. There's no gestapo
 RW>>> roaming the streets harrassing anyone.

 RB>> Stuff like that is never out in the open. Lokk at how long it took
 RB>> for the secret, unauthorized wiretaps to become public.

 BA> That gestapo isn't doing that *yet*.  But INS *can* stop anybody it
 BA> wants, any time it wants, anyplace it wants and demand proof of
 BA> citizenship.

That would be a hard row to hoe. Nobody carries the proof that Bashe
or you're thinking of. A state issued driver's license is as close as
they'll find.

 BA> Several years ago INS did grab a 15 year old HS student out of class
 BA> and shipped him to Mexico with just the clothes on his back, no
 BA> money, and would not allow him to call anybody for help.

That's hard to believe. First of all, if he's 15yo, he's a minor and will
be held in detention until somebody claims him.

                R\%/itt



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