[TheForge] Criminal Background Check

[Andrew Vida]

Jerry Frost wrote:
> From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
> 
> 
>>
>>
>> Sounds so innocent and innocuous until you find 
>> yourself on the wrong
>> end of half a dozen muzzles and some rather 
>> unfriendly sounding hombres.
>>
> 
> Been there. I stayed clam, did as I was told and having 
> done nothing wrong it was resolved within half an hour. 

	Well, try dying and coming back as a black guy in some stink hole 
ghetto.  You might find different outcomes.

> I met the physical descriptoin of a serial child rapist 
> in the area. Half dozen gun muzzles is exactly right.

	A mild, yet sufficiently scary case of what can go wrong when yahoo 
cops think they know something they don't.  Lots of people end up dead 
because of this - and not all occurrences are innocent.
> 
> Still, I'm not in favor of letting the gvt in my 
> business anymore than necessary.

	Unfortunately, the government yahoos get to determine what defines 
"necessary" in this case.