-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 12:37 PM 4/29/97 -0700, Mike Duvos thoughtfully wrote: |A funny story in last night's Seattle Times... | |It seems the INS and FBI are unwilling to grant US citizenship to |persons without legible fingerprints. [snip] Fingerprint escrow? 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! Was this carried over the wire? AP? |"This is not something we take lightly," said INS spokesperson |Irene Mortensen. "We can't just arbitrarily give out citizenship |to just anyone." The fact that Irene Mortensen has citizenship at all proves her point. 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?" "Dear Irene Mortensen: We regret to inform you....." Thanks, Mike, for the increase in BP. Alec -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQCVAgUBM2ZiXiKJGkNBIH7lAQH8CAQArOmQYxiaavj5FXdJUomjviRBcVfkxCRX PWCDZ/wMC68poOWEjKJECKYscVT0kMuw+FMOUKPYlMhR8kK33lvg4tOqbjMKyYMS LZbPU4M+jQNFq3y5c6hFUmtZg8zLATBIeb8lVRnWQ8qChSH8jdTSZLxhmTx8Azgt mrTXcnOk3dQ= =JZZe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----