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EU Agrees to Give Passenger Data to U.S.
de la mettrie writes "The EU Commission has agreed in principle to make airlines provide U.S. Homeland Security with detailed passenger data for flights to the USA. Things Uncle Sam would like to know about passengers include their itinerary, their credit card number and whether or not they asked for a meal without pork. The data are supposed to help prevent terror attacks and are to be 'handled appropriately'." The U.S. is collecting the data for a massive passenger database, intended to increase passenger profiling.
whether or not they asked for a meal without pork
So, being an vegetarian makes me a TERRORIST! Damn.
If at first you don't succeed, then sky diving definitely isn't for you.
Now, in order to reduce your threat level you'll have to choke down some pork before killing the INFIDELS!!! Just one more toll on the road to paradise...
Sure I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
I'm not sure that airlines serve meals with any sort of meat, nevermind pork!
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
Why, so it can be in the same database that got hacked by anonymous crackers, to even the field between European and American credit card security!
Seriously though, I'm surprised European governments are allowing such infriction on the privacy of us, its citizens, and by a foreign government no less, who has no business whatsoever sticking its nose into my personal data.
If they want the information, they should go get it on their own soil. Demand all passengers landing in the US to disclose their credit card numbers, for example. That would lead to passenger uproar, you say? So where is the difference between candidly asking a passenger his credit card number, and sneakily procuring it from his airline company behind his back and without his explicit consent or even knowledge?
Never underestimate the power of stupidity
To err is human, to moo bovine
plane into the side of a building, and I had never eaten pork before, then might be the time I would like to try it for the first time . . .
Before you mod this as "troll", know that, instead of posting, I could have modded all the "funny" posts as "trolls" simply out of spite that there are so many people out there more funny than me. Think about that before modding, ok?
Sdelat' Ameriku velikoy Snova!
Last I heard, Pork was "the other white meat". It's beef that's considered RED MEAT. Beef is both Halal and Kosher and thousands of Texas cattlemen would string you up suggesting that god-fearing Americans choose Pork over Beef. You know what happened to Oprah...YOU'RE NEXT, YANKEE!
But there's still another clue. Terrorists have to pray 5 times a day. And as long as nobody mods this up they'll never know that we're onto them.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
So, THAT's where those 8 million card numbers went!
I hope it is!
May I please have a Congress without Pork?
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Suppose I were a member of Congress, and suppose I were an idiot. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain.