Mystification of Identity: You Say Yusuf, I Say Youssouf...

[Tyler Durden]

Many Cypherpunks view the need to take up crypto arms to stem off an 
Orwellian, hyper-evil and hyper-competent dictatorship. I'm thinking a more 
likely (and no less threatening) scenario is one like "Brazil" (ie, the 
movie).

Don't forget, the World Trade Center management was on the Intercom trying 
to tell everyone to "Remain inside the Building...It's safest Inside the 
Building".

Fuck. Here on Wall Street I'm a dead man.

-TD


>From: "Roy M. Silvernail" <roy at rant-central.com>
>Reply-To: roy at rant-central.com
>To: Tyler Durden <camera_lumina at hotmail.com>
>CC: "cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net" <cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net>
>Subject: RE: Mystification of Identity: You Say Yusuf, I Say Youssouf...
>Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:35:38 -0400
>
>On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 18:55, Tyler Durden wrote:
> > Holy shit. So it really boiled down to mere spelling?
> >
> > So if there's a single "Mohammed Ali" who is a terrorist in the whole 
>world,
> > then no single Mohammed Ali will be able to fly into and out of the US? 
>How
> > many Mohammed Ali's are there in the world? How many Yousef Islam's?
>
>Or Yusef Islam?  Or Yousuf Islam?  It's not just spelling, its
>Anglo-English interpretation of the phonetic names.  Remember a few
>years back when the Associated Press made a (not big, but noticable)
>deal out of changing the sanctioned spelling of Qadaffi's name?
>
>Now we have an entire bureaucracy working on the assumption that "names"
>are both is-a-person credentials and immutably tranliterable to the
>Anglo-English alphabet.
>
>The mind just *boggles*!
>--
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