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I am shocked, I tell you.


Intel that halted flights 'mistaken'. Herald Sun Jan 2 2004 4:49AM ET [Moreover - moreover...]
Who would have thought that if you try to track people by only transliterated surnames that you might get the wrong people?

4:52:39 PM  Permanent link   Categories: Keeping America Safe LiveJournal

Two can play that game


Brazil to fingerprint Americans in retaliation for Homeland Security indignities. The Brazilian government has retaliated against a US plan to fingerprint Brazilian visitors to the US by fingerprinting US visitors to Brazil. The judge who enacted the regulation has exempted citizens of countries whom the US intends to fingerprint from the Brazilian requirement, and has had a little Godwin's Law moment in his publicity regarding the decision:

"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.


Link [Boing Boing Blog]

4:49:50 PM  Permanent link   Categories: Keeping America Safe LiveJournal


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