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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 |
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