Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

[J.A. Terranson]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Steve Furlong wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 05:18, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>
> > The US now has the dubious distinction of being more obnoxious to get through
> > the borders than the former East Germany (actually even without this measure,
> > the checks had become at least as obnoxious as the East German ones).  I
> > wonder whether the next step will be building a wall...
>
> Reign in the overheated rhetoric. The East German state built their wall
> to keep the East Germans from leaving, while the US policies are meant
> to keep out a demonstrated threat.

(1) There are also a number of non-rebar+concrete "walls" in place to keep
US citizens from leaving;

(2) The "demonstrated threat" folks are not generally the ones being
targetted.

The US *is* the Fourth Reich.

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Yours,

J.A. Terranson
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Which one scares you more?