US fingerprinting foreigners

[Boozy]

Which one sounds scarier?

Gorillas sound like, totally scary to me. I like, so wouldn't want to be attacked by gorillas, y'know?

[Slytovhand]

Gorillas sound like, totally scary to me. I like, so wouldn't want to be attacked by gorillas, y'know?

Are you monkeying around??

[BlackIronCrown]

I agree. My civil rights are guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Civil Rights and Freedoms. Those rights end where Canadian sovereignty ends; at the US border.

This reminds me; a British solicitor I know on LJ was once called to Heathrow by a partner to help on a Problem-With-Capital-P a corporate client was having.

An American employee of the client had flown to Britain to do something-or-other. Somehow, he had managed to smuggle his pistol past US customs. The Brits were taking an exception to it, obviously.

The kicker? The American was demanding the right to tote his gun around the UK based on the fact that it was his right under the 2nd Amendment. And what do you mean the 2nd Amendment doesn't apply here?!?!? I'm an American with American rights!

Totally amusing.

[Zyanya]

offtopic, why is the term terrorist used for what was once guerrila warfare? From what I've seen, people in Iraq, attacking soldiers, any soldiers, are immediately labeled as terrorists, when all they are doing is defending (in their minds, the best way) their life and home. Were the Vietnamese terrorists? Were Tito and his troops terrorists?

I hate to say it, but it seems like in order for it to be considered 'terrorism', it has to be committed by Muslims.

That is why in the US, most domestic terrorism is called 'hate crimes' or 'mass murderers'.

Truth is that most terrorism is domestic.

As an example, how many terrorist attacks occurred in 2001 according to the FBI?

Hint, the answer is neither 1 nor 2.

[Slytovhand]

Only in the US Zyanya... the UK thought all terrorists were IRA, in Spain it's Basque, in Sri Lanka it's Tamil Tigers, in Russia it's Chechnyens, etc etc...

But yes, 'terrorist' is more emotive than 'freedom fighters'...(freedom being a debatable term, but that's how they would see it). How would that go down??

"US soldiers come under fire from Iraqi freedom fighters" ... tell me that's not what those people are thinking in their heads!


Slyt