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Rich Freeman posted on Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:27:59 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> In the US everybody seems to be afraid of big brother but big brother |
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> has enough big data that he doesn't really need you to use his fancy |
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> signing device anyway. |
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It isn't just big brother, tho that's bad enough. Such a government |
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mandated device for signing all financial transactions is a political no- |
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go here in the US due to "mark of the beast" concerns. After all, the |
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prophesy did say people couldn't buy or sell without it, and even a lot |
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of people who are no longer generally religious are still wary of that. |
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That's one of the reasons the post-9/11 federally mandated ID reforms had |
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so much resistance, and those aren't required to buy or sell. If someone |
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tried to mandate something like that for financial transactions it could |
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very easily spark a revolution here, and I'm not kidding. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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