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• One more body-blow to honest on-line merchants. It is much easier for us and the customer if they order our products using our on-line payment system. But because of scams like this, more and more people flatly don't trust on-line payment systems anymore. So they order the old-fashioned way-- by phone or mail. In reply to: "E-tailers snagged in marketing 'scam' blame customers"

  November 24, 2009

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• This hassles everyone to make the gummits job easier
  Being natively lazy and good-for-nothing, gummit employees are always trying to make their job easier by making the lives of citizens more difficult. This has nothing to do with "security". Thank goodness the NRA (I'm a life member) has finally started to recognize this problem and change some of these meddlesome laws.
  
  One of the major causes of the American Revolution was "writs of assistance". These allowed any low-life crown employee to enter and search the property of "his betters" essentially at will.

  February 7, 2008

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• Japanese internment-- the IBM card-sorting machine
  Interestingly, early digital electronics also figured in the Japanese round-up. The census of 1940 correlated address with ethnicity. A simple IBM card sort ( which the census bureau had used since the early 1900's) and you had all the names and addresses. Allegedly, the Germans used the same machines in keeping track of their "undesirables".
  
  Without this early "digital" technology, the round-up would have been much more difficlt.
  
  However, the roundup of the Japanese mainly succeeded because you could tell who was of Japanese ancestry by face and/or name, no real-ID needed. So it was hard to escape by blending in. In reply to: "DHS: Real ID could help shut down meth labs"

  February 7, 2008

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• Various NAZI organizations, translated
  Sicherheit = "Security" . A big thing with the NAZIs
  
  The Sicherheitsdienst or "SD" ("security service") oversaw the various NAZI secret police organizations.
  
  In an unfortunate convergance of names, under the SD was the
  
  Inland Sicherhietsdienst = "Homeland Security Service"

  February 5, 2008

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• Reich sicherheitsdienst
  The Reich sicherheitdienst was the NAZI organization that oversaw the SS and other assorted secret police bodies. The term roughly translates as office of homeland security.

  February 4, 2008

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• Internal Passports
  First, the feds require a passport for all external travel, including border crossings. Then, they allow this passport to subsitute for RealID as a work-around to "states rights".
  
  So, the external passport effectively becomes an internal passport, issued by the national government. NAZI German and the old Soviet Union controlled their subjects this way, but without the benefits of modern computor technology. All in the interest of "Sicherheit" (security), naturally.

  February 4, 2008

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• Right to travel freely "Priviledge and Immunity"
  "Just to be clear, air travel is not a right. Hell, travel is not even a right. I don't know of any legal language within the Constitution which states that people are allowed to travel freely between states without requiring some sort of documentation."
  
  in Corfield v. Coryell, associate justice Bushrod Washington (nephew of the first president) ruled that the right to travel freely from state to state and reside there-in is one of the "Priviledges and Immunities" guaranteed in the constitutioon.
  
  " The right of a citizen of one state to pass through, or to reside in any other state, for purposes of trade, agriculture, professional pursuits, or otherwise;.... may be mentioned as some of the particular privileges and immunities of citizens, which are clearly embraced by the general description of privileges deemed to be fundamental:.... These, and many others which might be mentioned, are, strictly speaking, privileges and immunities, and the enjoyment of them by the citizens of each state, in every other state, was manifestly calculated (to use the expressions of the preamble of the corresponding provision in the old articles of confederation) "the better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different states of the Union."
  
  Corfield v. Coryell

  February 4, 2008

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• Papers Please-- Life in the USSA
  The US now joins the old Soviet Union and other assorted two-bit dictatorships in requiring an internal passport for all travelors. Makes me want to cry for the old constitutional republic.

  February 4, 2008

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• Experts keep Wikipedia alive
  Wikipedia's antielitist claims are hypocritical. Its hidden secret on technical areas is that some real experts brave the flak and the hordes of true believers to post there from time to time. Or at least spiff up some of the worst mistakes. Luckily, it is usually possible to tell when somebody who knows something has been by recently. Otherwise, it would be worthless.

  August 23, 2006

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