I personally would prefer everyone's legislators to use policies that work. Asking your allies' citizens to pre-register before arrival in your country is *not* going to stop or even deter them from entering the United States. How on earth could it? It's just going to piss off more people. How would you like having to pre-register before you could come to the UK?
And erm... yes, other countries have had years of experience in dealing with terrorists. The UK for instance, which had 20 years of Irish citizens being suspected for terrorist activities. Not once, in those 20 years, did they ask Irish citizens to pre-register before visiting the United Kingdom. And there's only a land border between them.
Your leaders, btw, have now mandated that all new passports must have electronic tags before people are allowed entry into the United States. Tags which carry personal biometric data UNENCRYPTED so that anyone with off-the-shelf equipment can read said data. Hell, my London Oyster card is more secure.
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Date: 2008-06-15 10:51 pm (UTC)And erm... yes, other countries have had years of experience in dealing with terrorists. The UK for instance, which had 20 years of Irish citizens being suspected for terrorist activities. Not once, in those 20 years, did they ask Irish citizens to pre-register before visiting the United Kingdom. And there's only a land border between them.
Your leaders, btw, have now mandated that all new passports must have electronic tags before people are allowed entry into the United States. Tags which carry personal biometric data UNENCRYPTED so that anyone with off-the-shelf equipment can read said data. Hell, my London Oyster card is more secure.