For Linda
Your Blog is Boring Lately Dude. So that is what Jack told me on Friday night and Linda also told me on New Years Eve. Sorry, I had a lot of techie Yukon stuff to post recently so I can get some feedback for the book chapter that I am writing this month.
So you want some non-techie stuff? How about this rant. Starting this week, to help fight terrorism, the United States is requiring visitors from most countries to be fingerprinted and photographed as part of their Visa requirements. This has a lot of people up in arms. Critics say this will cause unnecessary travel delays and may never prove to be effective. So what if you are delayed in the airport, I don’t care, ever wait in line at Immigration & Customs in Paris? Enough said. Never be effective? Let’s see, many of the 9/11 hijackers were here on overstayed visas. Would have caused them to be more careful, and maybe given us more clues to catch them. Every little helps the intelligence community.
There are no “rights” that are being given up, visiting a foreign country is a privilege, not a right. Other countries will retaliate, Brazil being the first. Who cares, I have been to Brazil before and getting a visa was a painful process anyway, so now they are just shooting themselves further in the foot.
Damn, if I were in charge, I would require a DNA sample too.
