On Feb 22, 5:28 pm, Wildepad <noreplies> wrote:
> As I've explained, that is precisely the method used in real world
> situations.
>
> Both Japanese agents going into Singapore and British agents going
> into Norway carried no proof of their identity, no proof of their
> mission, and were doing cold contacts, persuading people to house and
> feed them while they gathered intel, a much more costly and riskier
> proposition than simply spending a dollar.
I've been trying to stay out of this whole discussion, but this is
silly. A secret agent who is captured and proven to be an enemy spy
is shot. A time traveler who is proven to be from the future gets
meetings with the president and Oprah (a fate that many, though
possibly not all, consider better than death). People in Norway knew
there was a current enemy occupation, and knew the British were
fighting their occupiers, a great many of them would have been willing
to risk their lives to drive out the enemy, and all things considered
a British secret agent is the sort of thing one might expect - it
would be risky to offer to help (it might be a Nazi undercover agent,
or someone might find out and inform on you and then you would get
shot) but those are the sorts of risks people take in wartime to
assist their country. On the other hand, except for gullible crystal
worshiping new age types and schizophrenics with tin-foil hats, no one
believes in time travelers, especially those who don't show up with
cool time travel machines and a sonic screwdriver or two to show they
really are from Gallifrey. We do, however, believe in wacky folks
(possibly those same schizophrenics) who believe they are from the
future, and con-men who are working some angle. The expected return
(zero) nowhere near outweighs the risks (small) or the costs (our
valuable time).
Luke
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