More coverage of Larry Ellison's fascism

[Tim May]

On Wednesday, October 17, 2001, at 09:43 AM, Khoder bin Hakkin wrote:

> http://www0.mercurycenter.com/local/center/id101701.htm
>
> Choice quotes from the Man, who doesn't realize that the Constitution
> protects *everyone* in the US, regardless of residency status:
>
>                       The cards would be voluntary for all U.S.
> citizens, he said
>                       Tuesday. Any American without a card still could
> board a
>                       plane, but only after undergoing a more rigorous
> search.
>
>                       The cards would be mandatory, however, for foreign
>
>                       visitors, including students on visas and
> non-citizens living
>                       and working in the United States who now carry
> ``green
>                       cards,'' he said.


Ellison rushed into this scam for selling more Oracle data bases (*) 
without much thought.

Mandatory for some means mandatory for all, else the "some" will simply 
claim they are part of the group not required to carry cards. Obviously.

(* Ellison says he will "give away the software," but he doesn't say to 
whom, or how agencies required to interact with the software will get 
their copies, or who will do the maintenance, etc. He is obviously 
looking for Oracle to give away some free copies but then be the 
Official Supplier to Big Brother. State capitalism in its most obvious 
form.)


> --Tim May
"You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher 
moral development. You expect them to obey the law because they know 
that if they don't, those who aren't shot will be hanged." - -Michael 
Shirley