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Cancer Patient Held At Airport For Missing Fingerprints
A 62-year-old man visiting his relatives in the US was held for four hours by immigration officials after they could not detect his fingerprints because of a cancer drug he was taking. The man was prescribed capecitabine, a drug used to treat cancers in the head, neck, breast, and stomach. Some of the drug's side-effects include chronic inflammation of the palms or soles of the feet, which can cause the skin to peel or bleed. "This can give rise to eradication of fingerprints with time," explained Tan Eng Huat, senior consultant in the medical oncology department at Singapore's National Cancer Center. "Theoretically, if you stop the drug, it will grow back, but details are scanty. No one knows the frequency of this occurrence among patients taking this drug and nobody knows how long a person must be on this drug before the loss of fingerprints," he added.
> Terrible New Terrorism Drug Helps Terrorists Evade Identification And Cause More Terrible Terror.
I know that stuff like the above passes for fall down funny amongst the Daily Show/Colbert/Kos set but really, you guys need to stop hitting the bong so hard it fries yer brains out.
Just how common do you thing people with no fingerprints are? Don't you WANT something that odd to raise a red flag? If this sort of thing isn't supposed to raise a flag, just what in your bizarro world would?
While TFA says the Dr. recommends patients carry a letter explaining this odd side effect it doesn't make clear whether the patient in question was carrying such documentation or even if it was this incident that lead to the recommendation. As someone who has who has made a habit of reading news copy with a jaundiced eye, especially Reuters, one gets the impression this omission and the misleading way the article was written was deliberate.
Democrat delenda est
> Seriously!! I mean, how can anyone sleep at night knowing that one of their neighbours might possibly have no
> fingerprints and be nothing but a terrorist waiting to happen!?!?!?!
Of course! I had forgotten that in bizarro/Kostard world the only thing we watch for at borders is terrorists (who are a figment of Bushitler's mind). We all know that ordinary criminals and assorted riffraff never try to enter the country. You know, people with a warrant out for their arrest who might think removing their fingerprints might allow their fake/stolen ID to get em past the less than geniuses the government hires as guards.
Democrat delenda est
So it wasn't just because she washed her hands all of the time. It was due to a medical condition. So we were both half right and half wrong (or in your case, you just left out important info).
I wonder what the protocol is for a double arm amputee.
They do toe prints. Seriously. I don't see the big deal here. Having your all your fingertips looking like they've been sandpapered is suspicious, regardless of the cause. I'm glad they noticed and took some additional steps to verify his identity.
I'm assuming you're joking.
We have a winner!!!
It's not all Americans. Just the ones that voted for that dipshit Bush and this time Cheney.
And don't start an argument about how the popular vote not winning Gore the election illustrates how all Americans are idiots. Your government is just as messed up.
I hate the fact that I live in a country where a lot of people think that it's OK to give away your rights just because some politician promises you "safety". I also hate foreigners that are so narrow minded to think that all Americans are the same.
-1 disagree is not a modifier for a reason. -1 troll, flaimbait, redundant, overrated are NOT acceptable substitutes.
> If you had been in that situation, an undercover agent might have manipulated you into going along with the plot.
I have been in situations of great financial need, but there's no way *anyone* could have manipulated me into doing something like that. Not for love, money, drugs, alcohol, pussy, or $NAME_YOUR_PRICE. I'd be willing to die first, and I have, on at least one occasion, looked death right in the eye. Sure, I was scared, but I made it.
> There's at least one case that I can remember of a group of innocent Irish people who were convicted of terrorism charges in England
Totally non sequitur. Your point is?
> Prejudice unsupported by facts. The Israelis commit just as much terrorism as Arabs and Muslims
I don't just call bullshit, I call fucking bullshit. Terrorist Israelis are the minority, whereas Muslims who either are terrorists or support terrorists are the majority of their faith. The link you cite proves my point, not yours. Yigal Amir was notable not for the fact that he assassinated Rabin, but for the fact that such things are extraordinary among Israelis. It's SOP in the Islamic world. Not that Yigal Amir was a terrorist; he was just an assassin. Terrorists kill people who are not directly involved, in the hope that others will influence those who are directly involved. Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't a terrorist either; like YA, he was just an assassin.
> Many of these terrorist cases meet all 3 requirements.
They don't meet point 3.
There's no way anyone who wasn't sympathetic to that kind of activity would agree to do it for just money. More than a few people who make their living through stripping, prostitution, etc., do so only because of circumstances. However, you'd be hard pressed to find a stripper or prostitute who would whack somebody for money. You could find one, but not easily. But go looking at young Muslim males and you won't have to look too hard to find somebody who'll whack somebody for ideology.
I don't know how familiar you are with the Koran, but I suspect the answer is not very. You ought to check it out, it might surprise you. Unlike New Testament (AKA the Christian Bible), and beyond what you can find in the Old Testament (AKA the Hebrew Bible), the Koran not only condones conquest and conversion at the point of the sword, it's very clear that Mohammed himself not only supported such things, but endorsed them. His followers, in the early days, supported themselves by robbing caravans going to and from Mecca, which was not at that time a Muslim holy city. Not only did they do so, but they did so with Mohammed's blessing. A base point of Christianity is, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." A base point of Islam is "Do unto others, so long as they aren't Muslims. Or even if they are, so long as they are Muslims who believe differently than you do." Mohammed's followers fell to killing one another as soon as he was gone. That's how Shia and Sunni got started, and over all the centuries from then until now, the only place they've buried the hatchet is in each others' heads.
If anyone wants to look at the facts and decide whether I'm right or gujo-odori is right, my position is supported by:
1. Israelis commit just as much terrorism as the Palestinians (and the Israelis have killed far more Palestinians than vice versa)
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE02/005/2002
2. The U.S. government commits entrapment by having its paid informers entice otherwise law-abiding Muslims into breaking the law.
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1088
3. Most normal people will commit war crimes just like the Nazis did if they are placed in an environment like the Nazis were in. This was proven by the social scientists Stanley Milgram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment and Philip Zimbardo. http://www.prisonexp.org/ . This was confirmed by the real-world experience of the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq.
These government agents are professionals at manipulating people. You are an amateur at defending yourself from their manipulation. You don't know what you could be manipulated or tricked into doing.
The government informer threatened to kill John DeLorean's daughter. Would you have let them kill your family?
You can't condemn someone else by saying that you would never have done such a thing. You don't know.