Re: OT: Wildepad

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:09:02 -0800 (PST), Luke Campbell
<lwcamp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>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

They first would go through a series of mental hospitals and/or jails.

Even if they are eventually believed, they wouldn't be going home,
which is the same as a death sentence to many.

In the meantime, someone is going to be extracting as much information
as possible from him and/or his proofs, and that creates an imbalance
in world power, and imbalances lead to war, and the principle behind
the exercise is to prevent war.

So carrying proofs leads to the agent being lost as well as causing
the thing you're working so hard to stop. 
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