At 04:11 PM 5/18/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:

At 12:49 PM 5/18/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

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FORT WORTH, Texas - The Defense Department, strapped for troops for

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missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, has proposed to Congress that it tap the Internal Revenue Service to locate out-of-touch reservists.

Wow! It was "EXAMINED BY LAWYERS!" That's almost as reassuring as saying it was "Generated by a Computer"!

:-)

There's a wide range in the types of methods they could use to find this information, some of which are the camel's nose in the tent and others of which are half the camel, but all of which are pretty much bad.

On the positive side, the inconvenience to the now pudgy, middle-class vets will increase resistance to the colonialism.

I'm *not* a veteran (I was 1H in the last draft lottery),

Perhaps you were in those BZ experiments and have forgotten..

address of my neighbor's legality-challenged son, and getting it wrong,

which led to the police pounding on my door at 6am with a warrant.

Good thing that claymore was being rewired, eh? :-)