posted August 02, 2003 02:58 AM              

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The US is putting extreme pressure on European airlines to turn over their passenger data

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Sorry, but thats over the line - Euro passenger data is under european law and none of your ******* business.

posted August 02, 2003 04:42 AM              

We have only just begun to see the depths this will go!
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TRAVEL/07/31/bi.security.screening.reut/index.html

At least they changed this cute little regulation, somewhat. They can't keep the information on us for 50 years, as originally planned!
Face it, there is no such thing as PRIVACY, anymore.

posted August 02, 2003 10:57 AM              

If only there was a way to travel without having to deal with this. But what could that be?

posted August 02, 2003 12:55 PM            

If I were you, I'd dismiss any notion that guests make the rules for entry here.
Neither the EU, the UN or any other outside organization sets American Security Policy and some of us wonder why you are meddling in something that is absolutely none of your business.

For those of you who live here and object to common sense rules to protect US citizens from 9/11 type attacks, you have options too.
You can stay home or make use of the best highway system in the world. Use of the domestic Air Transportation System is voluntary.

posted August 02, 2003 03:38 PM            

Which files do you consider to be yours? Or let me put it another way. What the hell are you talking about?

Also, I didn't see anything in the piece you linked to indicate the US wants passenger lists of flights from London to Berlin or any other European departure point to any European destination or any other non American destination.

SO, what's your beef with US passenger screening?

posted August 03, 2003 02:04 PM            

If foreign nationals are in the US, they "have traveled" to the US. Further, if foreign nationals are on a flight scheduled to land in the United States, they "are traveling" to the US.

BugginOut

This new regulation is intended to screen out those having ties to terrorist organizations to prevent them from hijacking an International flight bound for the United States or having arrived in the US, to prevent them melting into the general population by denying them access to those flight destined to land in the United States.

This new regulation DOES NOT speak to legal immigration to the United States.

You are sadly mistaken if you believe we need to give any weight to the beliefs of Islamic Fundamentalist terrorists whose basic position is that those who do not embrace their religion can be killed with impunity.

Facts check BugginOut. There were 19 terrorist hijackers not 15. They are each with their 72 virgins in Paradise and we have sent many more to join them. In fact we are doing all possible to see the rest of them receive their just reward for the murder of innocent civilians.

posted August 03, 2003 02:28 PM              

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I dont have a problem with the US snooping on traffic going into the US...

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posted August 03, 2003 03:24 PM            

Since the new Travel Security Administration regulation speaks to passenger screening for International Flights inbound to the United States, what's your beef then.

What was the purpose in starting this thread?
Perhaps the purpose was simple. Another personal attack on the President of the United States?

"Just thought you might like to know how far your moronic paranoid govornment is going"

Perhaps it's time for a factual critique of the European Union and it's wannabe power brokers. Tell me N_wEvil, how do you feel about forced (compulsory) abortion?

posted August 03, 2003 05:20 PM              

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Usually with rubber gloves and a bucket

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posted August 03, 2003 05:50 PM              

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and your opinion is significant because... ?

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for the very same reasons your opinions matter.