Posted on 11/16/2007 12:01:41 PM PST by JZelle
If you think radical Muslims, bureaucrats and cops have made travel miserable for everyone in America, you might have to stay away from Britain.
Gordon Brown, the new prime minister in London, revealed his new scheme yesterday for saying hello and goodbye to tourists and other travelers, and it's a scheme that could please only a busybody bureaucrat. The jihadists are working now on cracking the code.
"Travelers," reported London's Daily Mail, "face price hikes and confusion after the government unveiled plans to take up to 53 pieces of information from anyone entering or leaving Britain."
The relevancy of all this to Americans is clear and present, since bad things spread swiftly to unexpected places. Even now, there's a ranking bureaucrat in the Homeland Security Department say saying, "Hmmmmm. Possibilities here. If the Limeys can get by with this . . . "
The 53 items include the usual questions of sex, name, address, telephone number, passport number and so forth, but also such trivia as frequent-flier number, "no-show" history, names of infants traveling in the party, check-in time, initials of check-in agent, "group indicator of whether a party member is a 'friend,' " and — here's the real sticker — "any other information the ticket agent considers of interest." Who knows what a nosy ticket agent might want to know. How close is that "friend"? Are you sleeping together? What's your favorite color? Your astrological sign? (Would a Sagittarius be allowed to fly with a Libra?) If you die in a terrorist crash, what tree would you like to come back as? This opens up considerable possibilities on the slippery slope, and who knows who would ultimately get such a priceless data dump?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
That’s one way to stem their immigration tide! LOL!
Didn’t Paul Simon have a song about this? “50 Ways to Love Your Liver?”
That will really nail the terrorists! They must be fleeing at this very moment.
ROFL classic, my laugh of the day!
What do you mean? African or European?
This the the result and the reward we get for continuing to allow Muslims the freedom to travel and live in the West, as though they were normal and well intentioned, even after they have made it clear what their intentions are. WE are paying the price for the dubious privilege of having THEM among us.
Every once in a while, but not too often, a good one will jump to the front of my mind. Glad I could lighten someone’s day.
Those that don’t obey laws won’t be discouraged at all. They’ll still sneak into Britain. The sad thing is, that many good law abiding people WILL stay home.
You only have to know those things if you're a King.
Oh my!
You owe me a new keyboard! LOL!!
Reminds me of those old useful U.S. standby questions...
“Did you pack your bag yourself?”
“Have your bags been in your possession since you packed them?”
And my personal all-time favorite ... “Did any terrorists give you to carry a bomb on the airplane?”
“We now have the longest period in the free world in which a government can detain someone without charge.”
Uh, No ... You now have the shortest period in the non-free world in which a government can detain someone without charge.
“Have your bags been in your possession since you packed them?”
I love it when I have to re-check my bags on connecting flights and tell them ... No - You guys had them for a six hours.
“If you die in a terrorist crash, what tree would you like to come back as?”....Huh?
If you think Britain’s 53 questions are overly intrusive, you’d love the interrogation you get before you fly El Al to Israel. The first time I went there a tag team of interrogators spent about 20 minutes reviewing the story of my life. However, they were polite and professional. Once I got over my annoyance about their intrusion into my personal business, I actually enjoyed it. An El Al interrogation is one of the few times that a person is actually interested in listening to a person else talk only about himself.
It was really interesting to observe how one interrogator would ask a question and then, five minutes later, another interrogator would re-phrase the same question. That probably happened a dozen times. At first I thought they were either dimwitted or had a short-term memory problem, but then realized that this is part of how they trip up someone trying to deceive them.
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