Flight
It's just not a normal day of news without the USA violating human rights in some way. The latest example is the scandal about flights from the EU to the USA. In the increasing and pointless paranoia after the Twin Towers attack (I refuse to call it "9/11", for reasons I will explain in another blog) everyone travelling from the EU to the USA has their personal details sent to the US goverment. So somewhere, presumably in the NSA or CIA, are my details, because I went to New York after the bombings.
I've done nothing wrong. I don't even live in the USA and yet my details are over there. My DoB, address, who I was travelling with, everything that the airline company I flew with knew are now known over there.
They have no right to do this. It's certainly a more subtle attempt than the forms they get you to fill in when you fly there ("Are you a nazi?", "Do you intend to assassinate the President?" et al) but that doesn't make it any more acceptable.
Perhaps even more outrageous, the USA has now said that if these details aren't sent, the airline will be fined $6000 dollars for each flight, AND denied landing permission. Die Hard 2 comes to mind.
America need to learn they cannot control the world.
I've done nothing wrong. I don't even live in the USA and yet my details are over there. My DoB, address, who I was travelling with, everything that the airline company I flew with knew are now known over there.
They have no right to do this. It's certainly a more subtle attempt than the forms they get you to fill in when you fly there ("Are you a nazi?", "Do you intend to assassinate the President?" et al) but that doesn't make it any more acceptable.
Perhaps even more outrageous, the USA has now said that if these details aren't sent, the airline will be fined $6000 dollars for each flight, AND denied landing permission. Die Hard 2 comes to mind.
America need to learn they cannot control the world.
posted by Mkzrj at 9:29 pm
2 Comments:
I wonder how many terrorists they catch with those forms?
I bet the number is startling high...
Maybe American stupidity is catching...
CC
To quote Mark Mardell from the bbc on this - "Perhaps the CIA uses it for a recondite form of bingo to while away the long hours. When a man from Nantes with 10,400 air miles and three credit cards sitting in seat 27 chooses the fish an agent completes his line and shouts "bingo!""
I think that explains everything.
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