Apparently this "law" goes into effect on March 6th.
Patriot Act...OK...but this? How does this stop terrorists? Oh, I see...according to the left whose law Bush signed so happily...American males are the terrorists and foreign women need to know everything about us before we can even be introduced to them.
And I thought the TV show "Over There" was treasonous because it depicted American males as evil.
We need to cut through the red tape and just imprison American men who correspond with foreign women. [/sarcasm]
Good. it's about time and I don't care how you try to spin it. It's about time foreign women were protected from animals within our own country.
Perhaps there will be corresponding legislation to protect your bank account from your foreign bride and restrain her from sleeping with your friends?
Mail order brides are, pretty much, always a bad idea.
I wonder if this law is even constitutional; it may run into freedom of speech problems.
That being said, why not go over and meet these girls the old-fashioned way? I have enough friends, from the Navy and elsewhere, who came back from the Philippines with wives, to know that this works.
This law will force the matchmaking agencies to move offshore but nothing else will change.
Our legislature needs to read "Internet for Dummies" to finally get it through their thick skulls that you can't legislate Internet.
(Hint: It's global)
Bush is a RINO. Just like his Dad.
One of my best friends met a girl on-line from one of the "mail order bride" places. He went to Russia to meet her and her family a couple of times before they came to America to get married. It took months to get her visa.
They've been married about 8 years now, very happily, and have a beautiful daughter.
Certainly these situations can be very bad, but that's not the norm.
But this is typical of the government - a knee jerk response to isolated incidents that creates bureacracy and government meddling where it wasn't necessary.
Uh, not sure where you got the idea that it was supposed to stop terrorists. Well, I guess you could call a wife beater a terrorist of sorts.
The real problem is American woman are worried about the competition. Think about how many nasty skanks such as Maureen Dowd exist in America. These women wonder why no American men want to marry them. If they are going to be miserable then American men have no right to be happy.
If the matchmaking service is based in a foriegn country, how can this law be enforced against them? The article says the law imposes the duty on the matchmaker to collect this info. If an American just contacts the foriegn matchmaker on their foriegn website and conducts the business over the net, how is law going to impact that?
What a rediculous thing to legislate. Perhaps Washington State should ask itself how this 'male' was able to do this 'twice' and not pass more laws because we are not enforcing those already on the books.
But how could we possibly do anything without the government's help? Republicans and Democrats have taught us that we need nanny statism intruding into every aspect of our lives. I find it odd that anyone who voted for one of these parties is shocked at this level of statism. I mean, that's what you purchased. It's what was promised, and now they are delivering it. And when you vote Republican or Democrat in 2006 and 2008, you will recieve more of the same.
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But humans, OTOH, have rights which Bush seems to be protecting.
A much ado about nothing.
Who here thinks that these businesses, if they were disreptutable to begin with (engaging in sex trades or slave trades, some of which are out there) are actually going to hand over criminal records to the women they already have captive in the first place!
This is an absolutely useless law. How can it be proven that a company complied? Are they going to have independent agents monitoring every woman to make sure she gets copies of criminal records?
The only reason this was put on the books was to make some politicians look good. It's one of those feel good laws that will never do any bit of good.
Whatever......................
Women seeking should have to submit paperwork as well. Equal protection under the law.
I do realize it is more men than women, but we must cover all the bases.
Let’s see if I have this right. Illegals aliens can come here and without any records and rape and kill and then run back to Mexico. But a man looking for a wife must submit a police report more stringent than required to marry a woman here. If a woman is brought in by an illegal aliens, and used as a slave no one knows. But a guy fed up with the feminist must submit to an anal investigation, in order to just be introduced. And this is because legal American men are some how more predatory then any other men in the world.
When the republicans screw up, they really out do themselves.
I see this law being challenged real soon.
But I would not be surprise is some men converted to muslim of this law as a way to spite the feminists.
By the way, I wonder if President Bush knew this was in the bill when he sign? Or if he knew it was worded to prevent U.S. men from dating foreign women?
WHY.
You know, not even Russia was this 'in everyone's business'.
I fully expect that the FedGuv will be wanting paperwork when any man is introduced to ANY woman -- foreign or domestic.
We beat the Soviet Union, then we became them.