Return to Article: European officials seek answers on use of passenger data
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20185
I have an answer for the Europeans. If your name matches that of a terrorist or criminal, you will be referred for further immigration and customs screening, and either refused admission into the United States, or arrested! Unlike most of Europe, where terrorists are free to roam from country to country, we in the United States still believe in national sovereignty and border enforcement, in order to protect ourselves from those who seek to do us harm. You'd think that after 9/11, everyone in the world (except the bad guys) would also feel the same way.
If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.
Case closed.
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20182
I find it fascinating that the government will maintain records on their own citizens longer then on foreigners. Forty years versus four. Interesting that we are more interested in offending Europeans then U.S. citizens. Has all of the senior staff in the government forgotten where they came from and whom they are protecting? I also find it fascinating that this government has no problem allowing commercial industries (airlines) to collect and no doubt will retain personal information. Information that is not the government's or private industry's business. What I eat, if I am sick, if I dislike the current administration, and/or if I am opposed to gun control is not anyone's business but mine, per the Constitution! Why then, do government officials feel they have the right to this information? In the name of protecting us from terrorists. Yeah right! Yet we would never dream of profiling! No we search little 5-year-old girls and old ladies -- never an Arab!
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20159
Tennis anyone? As everyone knows, you can't have much of a tennis match without an opponent lobbing your serve back over the net. Well, just how cooperative have the Europeans been lately re: shared intelligence? It seems to me that they didn't tell us about the planned liquid bomb attacks on planes until after the plot was foiled. Now, we have to worry about their citizens' privacy as well as our own? The Islamic terrorists must be really chuckling over this new stupidity.
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