Marie Lewis wrote:

"Stephen Harding" wrote in message

I think anyone coming from Europe or the rest of the world,
who truly feels this represents "big brother" or "police
state America" best just stay home.

No, we can visit all the other better places.

Why is our concern for *our* security too much for you to bear?

Once some standard for biometric passports are determined,
*every nation* will have a fingerprint, or some equivalent
biometric, encoded in their passport and it will all be
transparent.

Why are you not concerned with government use of your passport
information as it is already defined? "They" have your name
and photograph and address. You're not concerned "they" might
send the black helicopters out for you? Or do the black helos
only fly around American skies?

The bottom line is this is an internal national policy decision
undertaken by a democratic form of government with a lot of
checks and balances built into the system to prevent abuse,
at least over the long run, and in a context of protecting our
citizens from horrific international terrorism.

The fact that your anti-Americanism leads you to believe the
US is some sort of banana republic where the evil President[tm]
enjoys removing personal freedoms from all is a problem of
your own prejudice and bigotry.

By all means, take your damn euros and spend them in a "better
place"!

I don't have much sympathy for them.

Oh, how terrible!! We are *really* upset not to have your sympathy. Not.

That's precisely the problem, and why such individuals
aren't regarded by me as any loss.

I am coming around to absolutely despising Europeans, or
at least a fairly large subset of them!


SMH