US Officials To Ask Incoming European Visitors About Their Political Views, Religion & Sex

[Me.]

Will US citizens be next? Will Europe retaliate?

“Highly sensitive information about the religious beliefs, political opinions and even the sex life of Britons travelling to the United States is to be made available to US authorities when the European Commission agrees to a new system of checking passengers.

The EC is in the final stages of agreeing a new Passenger Name Record system with the US which will allow American officials to access detailed biographical information about passengers entering international airports.

The information sharing system with the US Department of Homeland Security, which updates the previous three-year-old system, is designed to tackle terrorism but civil liberty groups warn it will have serious consequences for European passengers. And it has emerged that both the European parliament and the European data protection supervisor are alarmed at the plan.

In a strongly worded document drawn up in response to the plan that will affect the 4 million-plus Britons who travel to the US every year, the EU parliament said it 'notes with concern that sensitive data (ie personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, and data concerning the health or sex life of individuals) will be made available to the DHS and that these data may be used by the DHS in exceptional cases'.” Cont…

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0%2C%2C2132099%2C00.html

[sarcasmo]

1. Welcome to the new Amerika.

This shit just makes me think of V for Vendetta.

Kick and Nom

[MagickMuffin]

2. Heh Heh, you a top or a bottom person

or which orifice do you prefer.

That is wrong on SOOOOO many levels.

What do you suppose they need that info for anyway?!?!?

[H2O Man]

13. You are terrible!

Thank you for that!

[MagickMuffin]

14. If you think that was terrible, How's about a Visual

[Me.]

16. OK, Now, There Is A Limit

To what my eyes can take.

(I wonder if * was captivated by the lip tickle?)

[H2O Man]

17. Yikes!

That hurt!

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Do you support republicons in diapers?" - Repug Immig Offs

"Only those furriners who are fully behind republicons in diapers will be admitted to Our Beloved Fascist Republicon States."

- Repug Immig Offs

[tanyev]

4. Oh, that will really draw the tourists in.

:eyes:

[bdamomma]

15. they will say just shove it.

and go somewhere else.

[SoCalDem]

5. Well, then!

This will certainly help boost the interest of people who still travel abroad.:eyes:

May I recommend Tahiti instead? It's a very laid back, friendly , and accomodating place.. Nice weather, beautiful beaches, great food and generous people :)

[truebrit71]

6. Wow....that is fucked up...

Why the hell does the Gestapo need to know about the health or sex life of visitors...??

I am gonna laugh my arse off when the EU does the same shit to US visitors...and they get snippy about it...

Remind me again, what country is this?

[Double T]

7. "exceptional cases"??? What does that mean and WHO will decide.........

what is and isn't an exceptional case??? Since when does f__king america act like a GD police state? I was wrong, bushco can do a hell of a lot of damage in the last 17 months of its dick-tatership!!

[1monster]

8. Answer: I don't think I want to visit the United States anymore. Honey, let's get back on the

plane and go back home. This place is starting to sound like 1930s Germany...

[DFW]

9. Either this will be VERY temporary

Or the number of foreign visitors to the USA
will drop by a third or more. That will do
wonders for our balance of payments.

I already know some Swiss bankers who refuse to
visit the USA until Bush and his maniacs are out,
and Swiss bankers may be the only people left on
the planet who worship money as much as Republicans.

Well, maybe not--the Swiss might have to settle for
second place at this point.

[truebrit71]

10. I just sent an e-mail to Peter Hustinx, the guy mentioned in the article...

...and suggested in no uncertain terms that this needs to be nipped in the bud...I also suggested that if it goes ahead strictly as written, that the EU should impose the same restrictions/demands on US visitors to the EU...and see how quickly the rules get revised...

My parents visit me here every year and they are made to feel like common criminals by the thugs at immigration with fingerprints and retina scans...One of these days my old man is going to get in trouble...he doesn't like tin-pot dictators much and he has a hard time keeping his mouth shut...

It would be a shame if they simply stopped coming because the hassle and the invasion of their privacy was too much to bear...

[Me.]

11. Speaking Out Will Bring This To The Light Of Day

this is another of those little rules that gets enacted in the darkness. I think, as stated above, that the effect it will have on tourism will be one of the cures for this. And I wonder what they will do is as an answer to those questions someone simply answers 'yes'. Throw the person in jail, refuse them entrance? Do they really want to start international incidents? Is this another of their stupid a**ed initiatives that wasn't thought out before they went ahead?

[mr blur]

12. My answers:

ethnic origin: Human

religious beliefs: Definitely anti-

political opinions: Far too left to be welcome in your country

trade union membership: None of your fucking business

sex life: None of your fucking business.


Guess we won't be visiting soon then, if ever again.