Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 17:53:02 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The way to San Jose
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>Hate to tell you all, but some manner of identifical has been required =
since
>1998 (mandatory, by law), and was common practice among some of the major
>airlines since the mid-90's. And Keith, you have a passport - that will =
be
>more than sufficient. And don't complain about it - you had to use it =
when
>you went overseas.

But what does having an identification card prove?  Accomplish?  Pretty =
much zippo.

Richard Reid had proper identification.

mjw

>
>Bob MacIntosh
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at keithlynch.net>
>To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:37 PM
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: The way to San Jose
>
>> "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Go south on Route 101 from San Francisco. Do not get off at Palo
>> > Alto and have a premature baby.
>>
>> > "Keith asked how to get there that didn't involve showing a form of
>> > id..."  I think this is a question of Keith's ego as opposed to his
>> > id...oh...nener mind.
>>
>> All I have to do is bike south on the road I live on until it ends.
>> That's about half a mile.  Then turn right and ride on that road until
>> it ends.  That would get me 95% of the way to San Jose.
>>
>> I'm tempted.  Athletes have biked across the country in under two
>> weeks.  I'm sure I could do it in three.
>>
>> Or I could simply walk there, if I left immediately after Balticon.
>>
>> Nobody near DC or Baltimore is driving?  I could help pay for gas,
>> tolls, and parking, and split the cost of hotel rooms along the way.
>>
>> I'm still dumfounded that so few people are outraged by the idea that
>> one can no longer travel without "papers, please".  This is supposed
>> to be America, not Grand Fenwick.  I would have thought this would
>> cause protests that made the Vietnam War protests look like nothing.
>> Protests by both the left and right, both of which claim to stand for
>> freedom.
>> =AF
>> Keith F. Lynch - kfl at keithlynch.net - http://keithlynch.net/
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