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pyesetzTwo articles showed up on SlashDot today:
Story 1: US Citizens leaving the country via Detroit or Atlanta will have their fingerprints taken. In the quoted article, there is no statement about what the government will do to US citizens who decline to be fingerprinted, but the two obvious choices are (a) prohibit them from leaving the country or (b) arrest them as presumed illegals, since surely any legitimate citizen would be only too willing to undergo this procedure.
Story 2: Cancer patient held at airport for four hours because he has no fingerprints. The man is taking capecitabine, which causes fingerprint ridges to peel off the fingers. Without fingerprints, he was presumed to be a security risk, although the putative correlation between having fingerprints and being aligned with American Corporatist interests is only poorly demonstrated in the literature.
Story 1: US Citizens leaving the country via Detroit or Atlanta will have their fingerprints taken. In the quoted article, there is no statement about what the government will do to US citizens who decline to be fingerprinted, but the two obvious choices are (a) prohibit them from leaving the country or (b) arrest them as presumed illegals, since surely any legitimate citizen would be only too willing to undergo this procedure.
Story 2: Cancer patient held at airport for four hours because he has no fingerprints. The man is taking capecitabine, which causes fingerprint ridges to peel off the fingers. Without fingerprints, he was presumed to be a security risk, although the putative correlation between having fingerprints and being aligned with American Corporatist interests is only poorly demonstrated in the literature.
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Date: 2009-06-08 10:04 pm (UTC)To maintain the Yellow Alert status that is needed to make conservative politics work. Obama is a "liberal" only because that term has become debased in the USA to mean "anyone to the left of Hitler/Franco/Perón".
Most normal Americans never leave their country for any reason, so anyone wanting to travel abroad is suspicious.
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Date: 2009-06-08 10:38 pm (UTC)You make that statement without the least sense of irony, I'm sure :)