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State Dept adding intrusive, semi-impossible questinnaire for US passport applications
boingboing.net ^ | April 25, 2011 | Cory Doctorow

Posted on 04/25/2011 3:25:23 PM PDT by MamaDearest

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To: ConjunctionJunction

“I’ve had 7 addresses in the past 10 years (so far). This form is ridiculous.”

I’m glad I have a passport already. I’m married to a pilot. I can’t even count all the places we’ve “lived.” I tried to count all the places after about 5 years of marriage and gave up when I hit 42. We’ve been married almost 17 years. Please tell me this is from the Onion.


21 posted on 04/25/2011 3:59:15 PM PDT by pops88 (geek chick over 40)
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To: MamaDearest

They can Bloody well go look at my Orange File for the Goverenment Security Clearance and my Military 201 file!


22 posted on 04/25/2011 4:04:40 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: MeganC

Crumbs, MeganC.

That is very, very smart indeed.

A few months ago for the first time in my life, I misplaced by Panamanian ID (cedula), which is a necessary document to almost breath.

While I was getting it replaced, I was using my Panamanian passport for banking and other areas which require identification to include supermarkets and other places when using a credit card. I like the strictness of this. (The cedula is also needed for voting. No cedula, no voting.)


23 posted on 04/25/2011 4:10:45 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: MamaDearest

This from an administration that REFUSES to validate the birth certificate of our elected president.

Screw the TRANSPARENT emperor’s new clothes.


24 posted on 04/25/2011 4:15:28 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: MamaDearest

This from an administration that REFUSES to validate the birth certificate of our elected president.

Screw the TRANSPARENT emperor’s new clothes.


25 posted on 04/25/2011 4:15:28 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: Emperor Palpatine
Another good reason to stay in the USA and see America. FTW!

East Germany constructed a wall to keep citizens from leaving the Communist dictatorship.

In America, they erect a wall of red tape.

26 posted on 04/25/2011 4:16:54 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: MamaDearest

Hillary Clinton was in illegal posession of 900 FBI files. Now she wants to dig even deeper into everyone’s background. WHY?

Just monitor those who travel abroad to train with Al Qaeda and monitor those who overstay their travel visas in the US.

All else is an affront to American liberty. “Papers please!”


27 posted on 04/25/2011 4:19:13 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: pops88
Please tell me this is from the Onion.

I wish I could, but this looks like it's for real.

28 posted on 04/25/2011 4:22:43 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: MamaDearest
So these new passport regulations make it almost impossible, for those to whom they apply, to get a passport. It is just like Nazi Germany which had rules that made it almost impossible for Jews to get passports.

Who does Obama want to lock inside the USA? Perhaps it is the wealthy, who are now being squeezed if they dare to leave permanently. After the new passport rules, the rich will be pulped if they stay or if they go.


29 posted on 04/25/2011 4:24:18 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: MamaDearest

Why in this day and age would someone not have a birth certificate or access to one?

I think someone who can’t prove who they really are should be put through the wringer. These questions are not much different than those of a background check for a law license or security clearance.


30 posted on 04/25/2011 4:29:09 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Eschew Socialism!)
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To: MamaDearest

What if you already have a passport, but it expired a few years ago? They still want you to go through the STASI interrogation?


31 posted on 04/25/2011 4:30:59 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: chaosagent

I’ve held clearances and am now a security manager in DOD - even Top Secret only makes you go back 10 years.


32 posted on 04/25/2011 4:31:47 PM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

“(The cedula is also needed for voting. No cedula, no voting.)”

Wow, didn’t know Panama was such a racist coiuntry that wants nothing more than to disenfranchise women and minorities.


33 posted on 04/25/2011 4:39:38 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ...In the US the number is 54%)
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To: dsrtsage

LOL!!!

Panama is paradise. I love living here.


34 posted on 04/25/2011 4:48:38 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
I have no will or plans to return to the U.S. as beautiful as my country is. It has become too crooked.

Attempts to fill America with people who have no allegiance to our nation and turn it into a third world country such as from which they've come seem to be part of the "legacy" of Obama. Photos of Detroit have gone worldwide - democrat party pride in action.

New Passport Application asks for Insane Details

Snip: And little lies on the form could come back to haunt you, since, as the form explains, the "The DS-5513 may also be used as evidence in the prosecution of any individual who makes a false statement on the application...".

35 posted on 04/25/2011 5:09:03 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

This law should be copied by all 50 states for purposes of what someone has to show to be on the presidential ballot — either a true birth certificate or this info in lieu of a true birth certificate.

How can it be easier to run for Prez than to get a U.S. passport?


36 posted on 04/25/2011 5:36:32 PM PDT by fightinJAG (I am sick of people adding their comments to titles in the title box. Thank you.)
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To: MeganC
A passport is bloody handy for domestic travel in the airports these days. When you show your passport you typically blow right through the TSA inspection.

Could you explain, please? I travel a lot, domestic and international, and haven't noticed any difference.

37 posted on 04/25/2011 5:53:50 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|http://pure-gas.org|Must be a day for changing taglines)
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To: ConjunctionJunction

I know every address i’ve ever lived at without looking it up and I’m 74.


38 posted on 04/25/2011 5:55:30 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: MeganC
I know the propaganda says that everyone is treated the same at airports but the fact is that if you have a passport you save a bunch of time answering stupid questions.

What airport do you depart from? At SeaTac I don't get questions, whether I'm using passport or driver's license. (I print boarding passes at home, no checked luggage.) I may chat briefly with the TSA agent checking ID, if I recognize him.

39 posted on 04/25/2011 5:58:02 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|http://pure-gas.org|Must be a day for changing taglines)
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To: fightinJAG; ExTexasRedhead; blackie; LucyT
How can it be easier to run for Prez than to get a U.S. passport?

No one is holding their breath that our current resident president will release passport or any other personal information in our lifetime. Yet, supposedly intelligent people and powerful political foes are saying they "believe" what democrats and Obama tells them without substantative proof their beliefs are founded in truth and accuracy. What we, the people, often supply government in personal information, our president refuses to do. This president's portrait is beginning to take on shades of Dorian Gray (with lots of "gray" area info missing - there's just too much conflicting information missing or unanswered - such as the law license revocations for himself and Michelle).

40 posted on 04/25/2011 6:01:22 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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