Re: Soldiers of Stonewall?
Sounds good, I fully agree with your reasons and support a re-merge.
I can see this in some circumstances, but I know it also serves a useful purpose in others. For example, a credit check is step 1 of obtaining a government (DOD/DOE) security clearance. The reasoning behind this is that foreign or nefarious entities could use this as a leveraging tool against you to acquire top secret information. "Bad credit? Hey, we'll give you LOTS of money if you give us this measly bit of information." I would imagine it would be a similar case with any other company with proprietary secrets (i.e. the recipe for Coca-Cola). Even then, though, that's why they have a full investigation process to your background and take many things into account before approving or denying. I've known of people who had bad (maybe not awful, but certainly not stellar either) credit to get their clearance. I would hope that companies that do the same thing would at least have a reason for running a credit check and having enough checks and balances in place to reasonably deny an otherwise qualified person employment.
My big problem is with employers doing credit checks before hiring someone. Many times it gets people into vicious cycles that they can't escape. You loose your job, so you can't pay your bills, so your credit goes down and then you can't get a job, to pay your bills, because you have a bad credit. I feel that that three digit number has way too much control over our lives. It's scary to think that up to a few decades or so ago, you weren't event allowed to check on your credit score or know what was dragging it down.
While passing through Devore space, Voyager is routinely searched for telepaths.