[Reader-list] What after MNIC? The MIND, the final frontier.

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Taha
 
If past experiences with you were not enough and I needed confirmation on the bizzare nature of your personality, you have just provided it.
 
You obviously did not read properly what I wrote and it appears that you do not read what you yourself post.
 
My words were "One of the premises on which the support for MNIC is based is that it
will help weed out terrorists. A physical identity mapping."
 
Did I say that Taha supports the MNIC or that Taha holds the premise that MNIC will weed out terrorists. Read properly what I have written and then decide whether you are justified in the content and tone of your response to me.
 
Doesnt a premise exist in the country that the "MNIC will help weed out terrorists"? Have you yourself not spoken about this premise. That does not mean that you subscribe to it and neither have I attributed it as so. 
 
For confirmation : http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2009-January/017420.html
 
Your responses to my postings seem to be triggered by some preconcieved notions about me and prejudices aghainst me that prevent you from thinking or speaking rationally. Your problem, not mine.
 
I must be one of the very few people on this List who read every single one of your MNIC postings. Read not scan through. MNIC fascinates me even as it disturbs me.
 
I would have further commented on the co-relationships that do exist in the premises regarding 'weeding out terrorists' in both the MNIC and the "human cognitive' technology, but you Sir are a Closed Mind. Why waste your time and mine.
 
Kshmendra.

--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com> wrote:

From: Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] What after MNIC? The MIND, the final frontier.
To: kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com
Cc: "reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>, "Taha Mehmood" <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 6:47 PM

Dear Kshmendra

Your reply surprises me even more, for in my postings not only have I never
mentioned anywhere that MNIC would help weed our terrorists but also that, had I
mentioned any such preposterous a thing, then I would have certainly reflected
the said issue in detail.

I am especially observant of the ways in which the social category of a
'terrorist' is formed.

The reason why it surprises me is because of all the persons who might have
interpreted my posting I would not have ever imagined you to read them in such a
manner.

Further more in all my postings, I have tried to raise questions which might
help us think through the most fundamental question- what do we mean by MNIC. In
this regard I have time and again tried to illustrate by the way of specific
examples and by broad theoretical conceptualizations that  it appears  as if, 
the notion central  to MNIC  card , like that of identity is fundamentally
unresolved.

I find  the idea of MNIC with its unresolved core quite a curious case and to
equate it to this seemingly bizzare technology is indeed uncalled for. Therefore
could I hope that in all future forwards to this list, you would exercise some
restraint before drawing any unwarranted co-relationships?

Regards

Taha


Kshmendra Kaul wrote:
> Dear Taha
>  Your question surprises me. I would have presumed that you have read your
own postings on this List regarding MNIC.
>  One of the premises on which the support for MNIC is based is that it
will help weed out terrorists. A physical identity mapping.
>  This reported attempt to develop "human cognitive" technology
also presumes that it will help weed out terrorists. A Mind mapping.
>  Kshmendra  
> 
> --- On *Thu, 4/9/09, Taha Mehmood /<2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>/*
wrote:
> 
>     From: Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>
>     Subject: Re: [Reader-list] What after MNIC? The MIND, the final
>     frontier.
>     To: kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com, "reader-list"
<reader-list at sarai.net>
>     Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 12:18 AM
> 
>     Dear Kshmendra (and All)
> 
>     This is with respect to your post. Could you please explain what has
the
>     development of this new technology got to do with National Identity
Cards
>     because on the face to it, they seem like two un-related events. I
would be more
>     than happy to benefit from your insights.
> 
>     Regards
> 
>     Taha
> 
> 
>               
>