Comments on: Fingerprinting foreigners finds resistance among airlines

By: Mark Ashley

Mark Ashley — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:22:01 +0000

TierFlyer, Richard Reid got on a plane in the UK. He wouldn’t have been ‘printed until he got to the US.

And playing the 9/11 card is, frankly, too easy. Would fingerprinting the 19 9/11 terrorists (who flew domestically) have helped?

If you really think that every passenger can be a threat to the USA, then fingerprint every passenger, every flight, to every destination, regardless of citizenship.

Your attitude toward personal rights, as well as toward foreign visitors to our country, is disturbing, to say the least.

“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin

By: TierFlyer

TierFlyer — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:31:31 +0000

“On the plus side: Airlines are finally standing up for their international customers and pushing back.”

Like Richard Reid.

“But they’re not pushing back against the culture of fear;”

World Trace Center, Pentagon, PA fields.

“they’re making a legal argument about unfunded mandates and the role of the private sector in performing government functions.”

But not when local gov’ts condemn property to build airports, when general taxes pay for the FAA, etc, etc.

-TF

By: From the Mind of J

From the Mind of J — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:45:34 +0000

I’d be for international boycotts on travel here, even if it harmed the economy in the short term. Maybe it’d send a message to the buffoons up high.