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U.S. Department of Homeland Paranoia & Stupidity

posted August 18, 2008 - 5:40pm
U.S. Department of Homeland Paranoia & Stupidity

We really know how to make visitors coming to the U.S. feel welcome, these days. What other country fingerprints all visitors arriving at our airports? Now it appears that everyone planning a trip to our country will have to electronically apply for approval as part of the Visa Waiver Program. Boy, if Americans had to go through crap like that to get into foreign countries, you could imagine how many would be screaming their heads off.
Hell, how many nations demand their own citizens fill out a friggin' questionnaire just to get back into their own country? Like it's anybody's business but my own where I've been and what meaningless merchandise I'm bringing back.

I absolutely love some of the questions they are now asking foreigners. Here are a couple of real beauties, right off the stupid site:

B) Have you ever been arrested or convicted for an offense or crime involving moral turpitude or a violation related to a controlled substance; or have been arrested or convicted for two or more offenses for which the aggregate sentence to confinement was five years or more; or have been a controlled substance trafficker; or are you seeking entry to engage in criminal or immoral activities? *

C) Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved , in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies? *

Yeah, that's going to be seriously effective at keeping the criminal element out of the US. If anyone answers yes to either question, they should be allowed right in. Anybody stupid enough to announce their intentions is not going to be a very successful terrorist, that's for sure.

Of course, it's quite possible we might just nab a few 95 year old former SS officers. If they're senile enough, who knows.

You just can't make this stuff up, folks.


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jdumbhub

Show me in the Constitution where fingerprinting is forbidden or anti Constitutional. But before you say something, get your foot out of your mouth :) To read my posts and articles click here: http://www.xomba.com/xombyte/lmorovan

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Ludicrous

In most countries, applying for a passport includes fingerprinting. Do these people feel being treated like criminals? Your argument is, well, ludicrous. Have you applied for a job recently? If so, you know that many employers demand today fingerprinting in the process of application and approval. Should all applicants feel they are being treated like criminals. Fingerprinting is nothing more than an unfakable means of identification. You can build a whole conspiracy theory against it, but the reality is, it is practical, it is safe and it is unfakeable. Got a problem with that? Cut all your fingers off, LOL. To read my posts and articles click here: http://www.xomba.com/xombyte/lmorovan

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Indeed kjhack

The trouble with the lemming attitude of people who go along with usurpation of our rights and saying "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about" is they are allowing the government to decide right and wrong. Eventually, the government can make anyone a lawbreaker, sometimes by two separate, contradictory laws governing the same behavior. What makes it more egregious is that the lemmings go along with our descent into a Police State happily and, because they outnumber us, they take our rights down with theirs. DO YOU HAVE THE WRITE STUFF?

Shall we put it to a vote?

To be honest, I know very few people who wouldn't take offense at having their fingerprints taken at customs. There's nothing like being treated like a common criminal to make you feel welcome. The old "if you have nothing to hide..." argument is pretty much the same line they used in Nazi Germany, btw.

 
 

Still grasping at straws, lmorovan?

Like I said before, even Evel Knievel couldn't make some of the leaps you make. You are a sad sad man because the best you can come up with is that I am a liability to explain why someone who has served, who is a registered Republican, and who continues to expect better from the American government doesn't belong to the same hive mind as you. DO YOU HAVE THE WRITE STUFF?

To your everlasting chagrin,

To your everlasting chagrin, I am both. To read my posts and articles click here: http://www.xomba.com/xombyte/lmorovan

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Heh!

On the other hand, I have no problem with my fingerprints being taken. I have nothing to hide and live within the boundaries of the laws. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Otherwise..., well, be afraid. Be very afraid. Yeah, I figured you'd say that. You're either not being honest; or you're just not normal.

 
 

kjhack

We need no sympathy, we need to punish those who killed over 3,000 of innocent civilians. And make sure they never do it again. Or would you rather contemplate another 9/11 or worse? On the other hand, I have no problem with my fingerprints being taken. I have nothing to hide and live within the boundaries of the laws. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Otherwise..., well, be afraid. Be very afraid. To read my posts and articles click here: http://www.xomba.com/xombyte/lmorovan

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jdubhub

If you served your country, you were/are an instrument of the same forces you so vehemently hate and despise now. So, you are guilty of genocide and imperialism. But I have a slight impression you are no longer serving because you have become a liability to your country and were separated from the Forces. To read my posts and articles click here: http://www.xomba.com/xombyte/lmorovan

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Yeah, Imorovan

We were attacked on 9/11. But we've long since squandered any sympathy the rest of the world had for us with 8 year of deplorable foreign policy. You'd think we were the only nation that ever suffered a terrorist attack. You'd be one of the first to complain, I imagine, if you had your fingerprints taken while entering another country. And you're wrong, I happen to know one European intimately who is fed up with the treatment she receives when she comes here. I get tired of apologizing for such idiocy, and the brain dead sheeple like yourself who support it blindly.

 
 

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