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US–EU Flight Talks Collapse
fantomas writes, "The BBC is reporting that the current US-EU talks over data collected from people flying to the USA collapsed last night. US Customs and Border Protection is insisting on access to the airlines' records and 34 pieces of data to be collected from each passenger. This data has been gathered since 2004, but only as a temporary measure. The European Court of Justice threw out the temporary agreement and set a deadline of Sept. 30 to arrive at a new one. Airlines that refuse to hand over information to US authorities may be fined up to $6,000 per passenger, and the passengers themselves held up in immigration for hours. Good for the EU on protecting the privacy of their citizens? Or are they hindering the War on Terror?" An EU official said that the EU wanted to give away less data, while the US wanted more.
Good for the EU on protecting the privacy of their citizens? Or are they hindering the War on Terror?
Yes, as a US citizen, it is sad to me that my government doesn't care about the right to privacy for citizens any longer. For non-citizens, the country being visited SHOULD have more information about you. When I visit Europe, your governments should have more information about me.
Yes, the lack of information about all of us, DOES hinder tracking and finding everyone traveling, including terrorist. If terrorists and their money can cross international boundaries unimcumbered, we will loose the generational fight against anyone who wants us dead. we can't reason with them - they want us dead. It is sad, but simple. Two choices exist: a) prevent them from killing us or b) kill all of them and their families and educate their children completely so this part of history is only from a non-radical Muslim point of view. It will take at least 40 years. Sad.
immigrant (m-grnt) n. A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another. Nit-Pik all you want, the planes carry immigrants to the US so the planes need to provide background information on who they carry so the US can return unwanted garbage from overseas. I take it your indicating that about 300 years ago, give or take, most of our forefathers immigrated here. Well your right. But they are all dead now and those of us decended from them are not immigrants. So where are you getting your statistics anyway or was that a random mind fart?
Our government sucks.
According to Muslims, it's "Muslim". But if we're going to start ignoring what people call themselves and just arbitrarily allocate names and spellings, I vote we alter the spelling of America just slightly to "CrazyMilitaryManiacLedSheepFarm".
I know, I know, Australian's will complain that they actually have dibbs on the sheep farm thing, but in Australia, sheep only outnumber the population. In America, sheep *are* the population.
I hate printers.