On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 09:22:10PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Once he has broken faith, nothing coming from that source can
> > be accepted, since the source is now tainted. Any information flow
> > with that origination is tainted, and since you offer the same
> > statements, without any form of untainting that is visible, I think
> > you are rapidly approaching the untrusted relay category.
>
> What I don't see is what exactly the scam *was*.
>
> It seems to me that you are saying that presenting an ID which should
> *scream* to anyone paying the least attention "this is not a
> government ID", has, ipso facto, lied.
>
> But no, they haven't. They haven't forged, or been dishonest.
In fact (as I understand it) Martin willingly showed his real ID to
anyone who didn't accept his Transnational Republic ID. That doesn't
sound all that dishonest to me - surely if the intent was to deceive he
wouldn't have shown any real ID?
bma
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