[79410] in Cypherpunks
Re: Fingerprint Stego
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Fri May 2 02:21:30 1997
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 22:15:24 -0700
To: Alec <camcc@abraxis.com>
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos), cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970429170432.007f4dd0@smtp1.abraxis.com>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
>|It seems the INS and FBI are unwilling to grant US citizenship to
>|persons without legible fingerprints.
..
>Does this mean that, ipso facto (I love it), physically challenged
>individuals with missing or deformed hands are excluded regardless of other
>qualifications? What a monstrosity of a rule!
Or at least that some individual thugs working for La Migra think so.
If your real fingerprints are <null set>, then those are your
real fingerprints - and if the Thugs don't like it, fire them.
>Was this carried over the wire? AP?
(Hey, we weren't talking about Jim Bell here. Maybe we should?:-)
>|"This is not something we take lightly," said INS spokesperson
>|Irene Mortensen. "We can't just arbitrarily give out citizenship
>|to just anyone."
...
>Is it not possible to retroactively _remove_ the citizenship of such an
>arrogant bureaucrat to test whether she could make the grade imposed on the
>rest of the world's "refuse?"
Only for treason; this may qualify. While the Constitution does give
Congress authority to set procedures for naturalizing immigrants,
it doesn't give them an option about _whether_ to do it. Just how.
# Thanks; Bill
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