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Old December 15th 04, 08:35 AM
Peter Duniho
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"tony roberts" wrote in message
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[...] If you pull the lion's tail, you must expect to get bitten.


I didn't pull the lion's tail. Why am I getting bit?

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Is there nowhere in the US that teaches diplomacy 101?
Frankly I'm baffled.


As if anything else going on these days makes any more sense.

As far as your specific issue goes, Canadians and Americans have a long
history of crossing each other's border unimpeded. I don't know what the
current requirements are, but it used to be you didn't need a passport or
anything of the sort to go back and forth, if you were a US or Canada
citizen. I guess it's simply politically more difficult to start
fingerprinting Canadians than Britons, since it would affect a much larger
number of people (not just Canadians either, since Americans would probably
wind up being affected by a reciprocal arrangement entering Canada).

I mean really, even assuming Great Britain starts fingerprinting US citizens
entering that country (or have they already? I don't know), it's not like
enough US citizens would be affected to cause any sort of political heat
within the US.

Pete