[Unknown Target]

Check this out:

http://www.yahoo.com/s/24883

What happens if they make a mistake? You're gonna be arrested, and banned from traveling!
Screw the new stuff, I'm taking local airlines and Delta from now on (Delta backed out of the program).

[Tiara]

ANOTHER reason why I'm glad i don't live in the US...

[Agent]

Is this  rule for America only? If yes, then I have nothhing to worry about.

[Agent]

Originally posted by Tiara
ANOTHER reason why I'm glad i don't live in the US...

I got an offer from my parents to go there because my mom got it for free, but I changed my mind. I don't wanna be labeled by some foreign government.

[Woolie Wool]

Next time I go on vacation, I'm choosing Delta.

[CP5670]

I don't see what the big deal is. It says they check your criminal records and history, which is fair enough. yeah they could screw up somewhere, but there are a hundred other places in the process already where they could make mistakes, and it makes no sense to complain about just that; after all, the alternative is to let more terrorist types in. They are just doing anything that might lower the chances of another 9/11.

But at any rate I couldn't care less about what they do with the airlines, as I never travel anywhere.

[Agent]

as I never travel anywhere.

Uhmmm...Why? What's wrong with traveling?

[CP5670]

Put simply, it is much, much more fun to stay home.

[Agent]

Originally posted by CP5670
Put simply, it is much, much more fun to stay home.

Why? You see your home more often than you see the world outside. By the way, good gasses like Oxygen are good for your health. Releases brain pressure. By the way, why is it so much fun for you to stay home rather than for instance go out and kick some football (soccer)?

[Tiara]

Originally posted by CP5670
Put simply, it is much, much more fun to stay home.

To each his/her own but still:

You scare me more and more. Do you have ANY social life at all?

[Stunaep]

I thought you'd been here long enough to know the answer to that question.

[CP5670]

Why? You see your home more often than you see the world outside. By the way, good gasses like Oxygen are good for your health. Releases brain pressure. By the way, why is it so much fun for you to stay home rather than for instance go out and kick some football (soccer)?

eh...there is oxygen inside too. My life at the moment consists of solving math problems, playing computer games and building lego stuff, all of which can be best done at home. I don't see the rest of the world as often, but all the interesting things in the world for me are at home anyway.

You scare me more and more. Do you have ANY social life at all?

I come here every now and then if you count that, although more for checking any news in the source code forum. Besides, who needs a social life; I have got math!

[Nico]

I sure hope I and you will both be on HLP when you'll have to get a job. That sure will be fun to see how you'll manage.

[Krackers87]

i think you guys are overreacting

because of the legal system even if they do screw up with a computer bug they still have to find further evidence of your crime before anything more than banning you from the airline can happen.

Theyd prob unban you as soon as they found out there info was false.

For another thing whats there to lose unless you actualy did do something to get arrested for.

Imean if u dont take a chance you dont get to fly

if you take a chance theres an extremely small chance you wont be able to fly but much larger that you will.

You wont get arrested unless they have proof. And if they have proof youre screwed wheteher you get on that flight or not.

Weigh the options here.

[Tiara]

Krackers, it'll only... a screw it... Its futile. I'm starting to litterally hate the US paranoia ****. From now on I no longer give a **** what they do and what they want as long as they don't bother me.

*Throws a barrage of lawyers at Bush for fun*

[Rictor]

Oh boy. John Ashroft must be wetting himself with glee. The police state inches ever closer.

And for those of you who say that they need additional information should read the full article. It says that if you're flagged red, you will be taken into police questioning and maybe arrested. All that, just becuase you fit what they believe to be a pattern. There is no actual crime that needs to be commited.

So if I'm travelling to New York, on bin Laden's birthday, with my friend who is a Muslim, and I have a criminal record for drunk driving. Well then, I guess I'm terrorist.

This doesn't actully improve security. It only makes people feel safer. Anyone with half a brain can avoid these patterns, if that is their intention. I also like how they try to scare people: "It not only insures that you're not sitting next to a terrorist, but also that you're not sitting next to an axe murderer". Oh yeah, cause theres obviously hundreds of axe murders each year. Its the latest fashion. What are we living in 1850 now?

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Rictor
Oh yeah, cause theres obviously hundrers of axe murders each year. Its the latest fashion. What are we living in 1850 now?

I'm a history teacher... what else can I say?

[Rictor]

I suggest your don't travel by plane to the Us for a while, someone might have tipped them off

[Ace]

Originally posted by CP5670
I don't see what the big deal is. It says they check your criminal records and history, which is fair enough. yeah they could screw up somewhere, but there are a hundred other places in the process already where they could make mistakes, and it makes no sense to complain about just that; after all, the alternative is to let more terrorist types in. They are just doing anything that might lower the chances of another 9/11.

But at any rate I couldn't care less about what they do with the airlines, as I never travel anywhere.

So CP, you don't happen to see the similarity between this and the whole "check your papers please?" business of the old USSR and Nazi Germany?

Sure it's to 'protect us from terrorists' just like it was to protect us from the evil capitalists or those baby-eating minorities in Germany...

Doesn't anyone learn from other people's mistakes? (or should I say on-purposes?)

Countries don't turn into police-states overnight, it takes small steps first...

[Flipside]

It does make you pause for thought, such questions as 'Religion' and 'Race' MUST feature in any scheme like this. And that most certainly smacks of Nazi Germany. I don't deny that people need protecting, but are bigger guns and Big Brother the right idea, or is it a simply a case of the 'Government' utilising the peoples fear to control them more?

My concern now is that it is the latter, makes you feel a bit sad at the term 'Land of the Free'