January 05, 2004
Feel safer?
I feel so much safer knowing that Tom Ridge is watching over me like a Big Brother!
New US security regulations are coming into force that will see most foreign visitors having their photographs and fingerprints taken.The rules apply to visa holders and cover all but 28 countries.
Those arriving under the visa waiver programme - which includes most Europeans - are not affected.
Sounds great... white Europeans are exempt, since everyone knows that terrorists are swarthy types who read almanacs. I guess this Federal Judge from Brazil must just love the terrorists:
Brazil on Thursday began fingerprinting and photographing US visitors on the orders of a judge.Posted by Norwood at January 5, 2004 07:32 AMFederal Judge Julier Sebastiao da Silva, furious at US plans to fingerprint and photograph visitors on entering the US, ordered Brazil’s authorities do the same to US citizens, starting Thursday. ‘‘We’ve begun doing this,’’ said a federal police spokeswoman at Brazil’s Guarulhos International Airport in Sao Paulo.
The order came after a Brazilian citizen rights agency filed a complaint in federal court over the US measure.
‘‘I consider the act absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis,’’ said Sebastiao da Silva in the court order released on Tuesday.
