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Story: Report argues case for EU-US data sharing
I'm with the ACLU on this one
This smacks of yet another "We must do *something*" response. Rather than "We must do something *effective*". They seem desperate to come up with something that they *think* plays well in the papers. Something that *looks* tough and courageous, hard core and gung-ho. Trouble is they should have been looking at something that doesn't throw the baby out with the bathwater and that will actually have an effect. Opening up an ID theft bonanza really doesn't get this done.
The murricans are already moaning that their tourist industry is depressed, that people don't seem to want to go to the states any more. Is this any kind of shock when their freedom loving government is intent on treating all foreigners and indeed most of their own like criminals. I would quite like to see Yellowstone and a few other places like that, but I have no intention of doing so while they are behaving like this.
I'm finding it very hard to banish the old cartoon images of lines of grey people with bar codes on their foreheads, heads bowed, silently shuffling forward in line to be inspected. Is this really the future we are to have to get used to? If so, we should just admit right now that the terrorists have succeeded beyond their wildest imagination.
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