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DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba
First time accepted submitter illtud writes "From April, UK passengers flying to Mexico, Eastern Canada or Cuba will have to submit their details at least 72 hours before boarding to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for pre-flight vetting (as all passengers to the U.S. itself have had to do for a while). If they find against you, you're not getting on the plane, even though you're not going to the U.S. The Independent (UK quality newspaper) has the story."
If not April fools then I would love to see a US court enforce this. Canada and the UK are both sovereign countries. Poor US losing its influence now beating up the few countries that barely care about it.
I used to have to drive by the smoking hole in the ground and the impromptu memorials that friends and relatives of victims set up at the site that was the WTC.
I will never forget it. It was an absolutely stunning sight.
After this the idea of keeping people of questionable background out of reach of American air space makes a lot of sense. What is questionable about this is the accuracy of the no-fly list. Oh well. Nobody is perfect.
So? Don't come. We'd just make fun of your bad teeth anyways.
The sad fact is the West is at war with the Middle East. A war you, as a Brit, should be responsible for since your fucking country started it. But you dropped it our laps. The US is far from perfect, and I'm glad there's people that fight the bad legislation. The US saying, "if you want to come in our airspace, or be cleared to if you have an emergency, then you need to do X" isn't the OMFGZ the posts here are making it out to be.
The entire West is abusing and raping the Middle East, the Middle East is not doing anything about it except bitching at the West with the rare minority resorting to shoving explosives up their ass, and the US gets all the blame. Very convenient. Why don't you take care of your own countries actions that got us into this mess and keep us there before pointing 4 out of 5 fingers back at yourself.
I'd like to thank the one person that voted it up before I get modd'd to holy hell. Been there before and yet I have great karma :)
I'm just really sick of people from Europe throwing crap at America. The entire West is doing the same crap. Some of the most disgusting laws I've seen that erode "freedom" comes from Europe. And the entire West is screwing the Middle East just as much as the people there are screwing themselves.
Per capita, we all (the West) have the same amount of selfish bastards eroding government and influencing legislation for greed. So stop acting like it's an American issue. It's not.Clean up your own hose. Vote in your own honest people for change. We all have the same issues.
The Middle East is backed into a corner, and the US is FAR from alone putting it in that corner.