[muawiyah]

Is there a problem here? At least we aren't asking for $20.

[Peach]

You know, the Rats were complaining we weren't doing enough to protect the homeland.

Now we're doing too much.

[Support Free Republic]

Here we go again folks... why not donate now and help get this fundraiser over with!

[last_one_standing]

Hey, how about this? If you don't like having your picture taken, stay right where you are. Controversial - hah. No one would say "Boo!" if this happened on 9/12. The media forget so soon.

[Viking2002]

I want one - just one - liberal to be stupid enough to use the word 'Nazi' in my prescence.

[mware]

I heard they already got over 20 wanted criminals includiing a rapist....no not Bill Clinton

[GovernmentShrinker]

Disgusting! The millions of people who actually endured the "Nazi horrors" would gladly trade the experience for being fingerprinted and photographed.

[Drango]

Remember Couric, we're at war. Take a pill, lie down and get over it.

[SandRat]

“Everybody’s up in arms” over the new procedure requiring foreign visitors arriving at airports from most countries to provide a fingerprint and get photographed, ABC’s Diane Sawyer insisted at the top of Monday’s Good Morning America. Everybody? On Monday night, CBS’s Dan Rather referred to the policy as “controversial,” as did NBC’s Katie Couric on Today that morning before reminding Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge that “some countries...are furious at this new policy” with a judge in Brazil comparing “the new security plans to Nazi horrors saying, 'I consider the act absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis.’”

So?

The judge in Brazil which by the way finger prints all US Citizens and was doing so before it was started here can Shut The(Kerry word)Up! And how many countries in South America harbored NAZIs trying to hide from justice for crimes against civilization, including Brazil Judge?

As to the rest of them in the alpoMedia well, ... what do you expect from supporters of MoveOn.org and A.N.S.W.E.R.?

[somemoreequalthanothers]

So, if I go to Brazil, I'll get my picture and fingerpriints taken. If I have nothing to hide, this does not concern me. I accept it as the price I pay to enter their country. What the hell is wrong with that?

[maica]

Sounds like there is the usual disconnect between the 'elites' in the media and 'ordinary' Americans who think our govt SHOULD know who is coming into our country.

Thank God I am 'ordinary,' and not burdened with the superior grasp of the security situation of America as these 'elites' are.

[atomic conspiracy]

I have been to Brazil. In sober truth, it is Brazilian judges who are reminiscent of Nazi horrors.

[MarkL]

"Everybody's up in arms" over the new procedure requiring foreign visitors arriving at airports from most countries to provide a fingerprint and get photographed, ABC's Diane Sawyer insisted at the top of Monday's Good Morning America. Everybody? On Monday night, CBS's Dan Rather referred to the policy as "controversial," as did NBC's Katie Couric on Today that morning before reminding Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge that "some countries...are furious at this new policy" with a judge in Brazil comparing "the new security plans to Nazi horrors saying, 'I consider the act absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis.'"

Right... We want proof of identity before allowing people from countries into the USA. And that's "worthy of the worst horros committed by the Nazis," like the mass murder of more than 12 million civilians, the vivisection of living prisoners for "medical experiments," the use of human fat for soap, skin for souvineer lampshades, hair for mattresses, and lets not forget the gold out of teeth...

Yup, it's the same as demanding an electronic scan of a fingerprint and a digital photo...

Mark

[MarkL]

You know, for some time, there's been this concerted effort to equate President Bush and his administration to Hitler and the Nazis... I wonder if a part of this is designed to discredit not just President Bush, but the Holocaust. "If the Bush administration is the same as Nazi Germany, where are the gas chambers? Where are the ovens? Maybe the Holocause wasn't as bad as the Joos keep saying it was..."

I wonder seriously, if there isn't a strong current of Holocaust deniers and anti-semites Jew haters behind the whole "Bush == Hitler" plan.

Mark

[sweetliberty]

Why is everybody horrified? They've been doing it to our own citizens for years. So it's okay to card, photograph, fingerprint and otherwise track American citiznes, but not foreigners among whom are those with the professed intent to do whatever it takes to kill us and destroy our country, and who care nothing about losing their own lives in the porocess? Right! That makes a h*lluva lot of sense.

[VRWC_minion]

On the last cruise I took we were all photographed for security.

[unixfox]

“Foreign visitors are going to be fingerprinted at airports. It starts today.

I wonder if they kick and scream like this when they go to get their drivers license renewed. Here in Texas we have to give them a thumbprint, digital photo, and our SSN just to drive. So....when are they gonna complain about that????

[LouD]

Hey, foreigners:

You do not have a right to visit my country, just as I have no right to visit yours. In both cases, it is a privilege, and an implicit element of that privilege is compliance with the conditions imposed by the host government.

In some countries, bibles or Christian religious items are not allowed. In others, literature critical of the government is not tolerated. We impose no such ideological or religious constraints. Our conditions are considerably more reasonable than the conditions set forth by many other countries, and they are imposed solely for the protection of our people, against those who would do us harm.

If you want to come to my country, we'd like to know who you are. You don't want to be fingerprinted? Fine - Stay home.

[gatex]

"...“Everybody’s up in arms” over the new procedure requiring foreign visitors arriving at airports from most countries to provide a fingerprint and get photographed, ABC’s Diane Sawyer insisted at the top of Monday’s Good Morning America. Everybody?..."

When I got a CHL in Texas --- was fingerprinted and photographed --and got a background check.

Don't recall Dianne Sawyer being concerned about that.

[montag813]

'I consider the act absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity

Brutal? I remember being fingerprinted at my local police precinct as part of an elementary school tour. I loved it. I also had a mugshot taken. Fun!