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U.S. Begins Digital Fingerprinting In Airports
lemist writes "Cross Match has rolled out digital fingerprinting at major airports in the United States according to MSNBC. It's designed to increase border security. They appear to be using Cross Match's Verifier 300 LC. Note that the actual capture of the fingerprint requires no interaction with the device. It determines when the image quality is excellent and grabs it."
This isn't for Americans though. Moron.
The ratio of people to cake is too big
where the Sept 11th terrorists moved around with impunity
Yes. Bush and his senior administration have visited Europe often haven't they...
Americans aren't all that matter. Moron.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
Wow, you're a real piece of shit...and an idiot. Go ahead and sacrifice your liberty for security, or a false senese of it at least, but don't expect me to.
Time makes more converts than reason
Knee jerk? You mean like what the US is doing?
Illegal immigrants? What does that have to do with terrorism, because that's the excuse used to justify all this shit.
I like it. You don't want to be fingerprinted, then don't come into this country. I'm not sure of the reasons behind some countries being exempt, but my understanding only those countries citizens are exempt. I'm from Atlanta where this was tested, and they caught over a dozen people on the terrorist watch list in just a couple of months with this program. Seems to me it might help something...and hey, you don't HAVE to come into our country. You don't like it, deal with it.
Brazil is being kind of childish, by responding with only finger printing US visitors. We're finger printing almost everyone, while they act like we're picking on them.
Thena gain, Brazil is being run by anti-US socialists so what more do I expect?
Derek Greene
Forget about US national security. The real reason for these measures is that someone in the Bush administration has been short-selling airline stocks. There really seem to be a real desire to drive the industry to the ground at all cost.
Opus: the Swiss army knife of audio codec
"You forgot about the one asking if you were a Nazi."
Is there any need left to ask that in that soil?
BTW I don't despise US goverment, I despise people still coming to USA for fucking Disneyland accepting to be fingerprinted like potential terrorists...
Know whats funny? They PAY for it too!
"Um, what liberty are Americans sacrificing for this "security"? They don't need visas for traveling within the US." ...yet ;)
If you think about the above flamer is average american citizen and voter, you can guess whats coming at you, when that gang will be re-elected.
BTW, I wonder, if in case I go to USA for holiday, which finger should we show to scanner? Index or other? heheh
Time to practice heavy accented english like "Master, me don't know your kulture" while showing middle finger...
The President is completely responsible for what goes on while he or she is in office. Blaming 9/11 on Clinton is like blaming Carter for high gas prices now.
Bush IS responsible for 9/11 and where's why:
1. He ordered the Air Force wing assigned to guard Washington to stand down on 9/11
2. He waited over 15 minutes after the first plane hit to stop reading to children at a photo-op before doing ANYTHING
3. Him and his family's oil business have long connections to the bin Laden family oil business (coincidence?)
4. Both of the New York bound flights crossed an Air Force base before hitting the city, when both where as many as 200 miles out of their lanes.
5. Bush has yet to respond to 9/11. Specifically, against Yemen and Saudi Arabia, the two countries that attacked us. Instead, he bombed the shit out of the two poorest war torn countries in the area, for doing nothing other than having very unpopular governments.
Bush is responsible for 9/11. The terrorists are merely pawns. He, not Clinton, ignored the calls from Chirac warning about this specific threat. He, not Clinton, was engaged in backroom business deals with the Afghanis and Bin Laden to build a pipeline though Afghanistan. That deal went bad. Bush is the president who did act accordingly after the attacks.
The two countries that did attack us escaped with impunity.
Bush is responsible for everything that has gone wrong in this country since he took office. His economic policies have devastated this community, and countless others. He is a liar (false claims about WMD), he is a cheat (using the Supreme Court to overrule a recount, what are you afriad of dubya?), he is convicted criminal (1976 DUI), a cocaine abuser and he is AWOL from the Texas Air Guard.
He is not fit to command a military that he abandoned. How dare he wear the uniform of the country when he couldn't even show up sober for service.
Screw him. He got us into a war we can't win, in a country we don't belong in. Thanks to him, either a fundamentalist Islamic state will be created in Iraq, or a new dictator will emerge.
George Bush Sr. and George dubya are the two worst presidents this country has ever had. The first created a huge mess, and ruined the economy. The latter took after his old man. When our nation was attacked, he saw an opportunity to finish his paw's evil works. Just remember, we knew Saddam had weapons of mass destruction - we have the receipt!
Hey Bozo--
Let's just give the terrorists ANOTHER WAY to figure out how to blow us to bits.