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On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 13:57:38 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:
.and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs checks in 99% of the countries in the world. Say what? The US is one of a few countries that doesn't allow arriving passengers to pick a green lane if they have nothing to declare. Mexico is another exception, but I seen others lately that I can recall. Are you perhaps immigration with customs? |
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In article , Wolfgang Schwanke
wrote: "Brian" wrote in : So how can we identify a person other than fingerprints? How exactly does fingerprinting help? Only if you have two fingerprints to _compare_. What about after some incident, you must agree that fingerprints can be valuable at this point. Clearly they were used in Madrid, as they used discovered prints at that house to ID conspirators. jay Sat Apr 03, 2004 One specimen (the person entering the country), one certified by an authority that it belongs to that individual. If they match - OK, if they don't match - fake! But if they only have the one, the authorities can't tell anything from it. "Hello, here's my fake passports, hello, here's my thumb". What's the point? Passports, DLs, and every other form of ID have been no problem to duplicate for terrorists. How about procedures which can identify counterfeit passports? Methods exist, it would make sense, and there wouldn't be protests against putting them in place, as it wouldn't involve storing information about innocent individuals in government databases. Regards |
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On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 10:04:43 -0500, "Brian"
wrote: "AJC" wrote in message .. . Having finger-prints taken for a driving licence? Maybe in Cuba, the former DDR, or some other 'big brother' regime, but certainly not in any free country. Finger-printing is for criminals. So how can we identify a person other than fingerprints? Passports, DLs, and every other form of ID have been no problem to duplicate for terrorists. You could always wait for the biometric passports to arrive. The reason the fingerprinting is being extended is that thebiometric passports mandated by the US congress are running a little late (for example the UK expects to have them available frommid-2005). Oh, and just curious, but what's stopping the terrorists using Canadian or US passports? I'm just glad I get an exemption from the process thanks to a nice shiny government visa, because otherwise I would *ot* come to the US again as I object to being fingerprinted without even being accused of a crime...or indeed of a crime even haivng been committed I could be accused of. --- Peter Kemp Life is short - drink faster |
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"Marie Lewis" wrote in message ... Please note that fingerprinting is not nearly as common in, for example, the UK, as in the USA. Here, you have to be suspected of a crime to be foingerprinted, and if you are innocent, those prints are destroyed. I'm afraid the writing is on the wall for the UK Already the police can take and retain DNA samples if they arrest you; these samples are retained even if you're not subsequently charged with a crime. Fingerprinting will probably come in with ID cards. I'd be very surprised if the cards are not made compulsory as the police are bleating for this. Brgds, -- Peter X-Files Fan Please Note: Emailed replies cc'd / bcc'd , containing HTML or attachments auto-binned as spam |
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On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 16:43:30 GMT, Cyrus Afzali
wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 15:08:54 GMT, "Pete" wrote: ...and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs checks in 99% of the countries in the world. When I arrive at JFK, I often wait 10-30 minutes in line, and I am a USA citizen. The other lines are worse, and this is without the finger- printing and photographing. I contrast that to countries like Finland, Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland, where I breeze by passport control hardly slowing down. I am sure this is the same for Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and many other European countries. Your 99% must exclude Europe, right? If the country in question is part of the US-VISIT program, or whatever it's called, the queues are often much shorter and the screening is done before departure from the country you visited. I just returned from Ireland a few weeks ago and all screening was done in Shannon. The only thing done here was the agricultural questionnaire. Ireland is one of the very few exceptions in having pre-clearance, has been for years. That doesn't help other Europeans, Australians, New Zealanders, etc. --==++AJC++==-- |
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On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 18:43:34 +0200, Magda
wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 16:29:44 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, AJC arranged some electrons, so they looked like this : ... Having finger-prints taken for a driving licence? Maybe in Cuba, the ... former DDR, or some other 'big brother' regime, but certainly not in ... any free country. Finger-printing is for criminals. I have had my 10 fingerprints taken when I got my first identity card at 18. That card had a big print (including sides) of my right thumb right under my picture. I didn't feel I was being treated as a criminal at all. I wasn't intending to get in trouble anyway, so I was glad that if an identity mistake happened, the police already had my fingerprints and could prove my innocence. One shouldn't have to prove one's innocence, that should be the accepted position until proved otherwise. --==++AJC++==-- |
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In rec.travel.usa-canada AJC wrote:
Having finger-prints taken for a driving licence? Maybe in Cuba, the former DDR, or some other 'big brother' regime, but certainly not in any free country. Finger-printing is for criminals. So you must be familiar with the process. Seriously, driver's licenses are used as ID in the US. Try to think. Figure it out. Oh wait. Nex |
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Chad Irby schrieb: In article , "nobody760" wrote: So the message is visiting the USA is more trouble than its worth so I'll go some place else. Yeah, that two minute fingerprinting and photo is *sooo* hard after a six-hour plane flight... ...and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs checks in 99% of the countries in the world. Obviously you have never stood in line at SFO behind 4 other jumbojets of passengers and 2 officers on duty. T. -- cirby at cfl.rr.com Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations. Slam on brakes accordingly. |
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"Sjoerd" wrote: That's not true. US immigration queues are amongst the longest in the world. From the number of people, or from the speed of the process? And the funny thing is, the people who are complaining about the US wanting photos and fingerprints to come in are often from countries that already insist on that for their own citizens (like Brazil). -- cirby at cfl.rr.com Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations. Slam on brakes accordingly. |
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"Marie Lewis" wrote: Please note that we all have the rest of the world to visit. Why visit a country which treats us as criminals? On the other hand, you could always visit Spain, and relax on their nice, safe, high-speed trains. Or the ones in France. -- cirby at cfl.rr.com Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations. Slam on brakes accordingly. |
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