A Block-buster of an Idea

You read about all these terrorists--most of them came here legally, but they hung around on their expired visitor visas, some for as long as 10-15 years, unable to be found so they can be deported. The current system doesn't have the slightest idea where most of them are.

Now, compare that to Blockbuster: They know your name, address, phone number, workplace address, and who knows what else about you.  If you're a day late with a video, those people are all over you.

Now that Blockbuster is going out of the video rental business, let's put them in charge of Immigrant Tracking.  It shouldn’t take them more than a couple of weeks to find all the illegals.  Maybe, in the course of tracking down all these foreign intruders, Blockbuster might even find some of their old videos that were never returned.

High Alert ! Gettin' It On !

Here is a question someone sent me:

Why do they put pictures of wanted criminals up in the Post Office?
What are we supposed to do -- write to them?

OK, so I post some ideas that are not “actionable.”  But here is a pretty interesting idea that would seem to be one way to "stay on high alert."   (Since the Feds have not provided us with a specific definition of how one gets on and stays on high alert.)

Why don't they put faces of terrorists on postage stamps so mailmen, and the rest of us, nationwide, can look for them?

Seems like that would be a specific way in which we could stay “on high alert.”  The stamps could be thought of as “small Post Office posters.”  Broadcasting the stamps nationwide would be similar to “America’s Most Wanted” broadcasting pictures of criminals and might produce “actionable intelligence” in the same way the TV show does.