How so? It seems to be aimed at a for-profit business rather than individuals.
"For example, the IMBA requires American men who wish to correspond with foreign women through private for-profit matchmaking agencies to first provide those businesses with their police records and other personal information to be turned over to the women.
I'll agree it's a stupid law but it doesn't sound as bad as it is being made out to be.
[How so? It seems to be aimed at a for-profit business rather than individuals.
"For example, the IMBA requires American men who wish to correspond with foreign women through private for-profit matchmaking agencies to first provide those businesses with their police records and other personal information to be turned over to the women.
I'll agree it's a stupid law but it doesn't sound as bad as it is being made out to be.]
Yes, of course the law is aimed at businesses and not directly at individuals. Will it be bad for you when you need a background check for meeting American women on Match.com or Yahoo Personals?
And note that it isn't a problem but a good thing for agencies to voluntarily screen their male clients to include non-American male clients. The problem is that, once the service agrees that the male client is not a criminal, there shouldn't be tons of paperwork sent to each woman he wants to meet before she and he can even talk. This creates a bureaucratic nightmare that will put the services out of business, guaranteed, which is what the feminist Senator from Washington wants.
When you live on one continent and the women on another, you mostly need the internationally oriented services to at least line up some contacts instead of just hoping to accidentally meet someone on Red Square on in the Kremlin. So going after the services is a major Nazi-style attack similar to the when the German trade unions were overrun on May Day 1933 while all the trade unionists were in football stadiums celebrating worker's rights.
Men do not have to turn over police records or even state how old they are on the forms. If that were the case, it would a lot worse than I am making it out to be. Men can lie all they want on the forms. The law was made to try to make the agencies legally responsible for whatever might happen years later.
The biggest imposition, besides the general outrage of it all that if you don't see, God help you...is that there will be a delay of 2 days to 6 weeks to eternity where the man does not get to introduce himself and say hi but, instead, has the US Femigovernment introduce him.
The US Femigovernment form will arrive at the woman's home, often by snail mail which takes 4 weeks each way, with the man's first name, no age, and a series of "Nos" next to questions about whether he has a criminal record or whether a left wing professor ever put a restraining order on him or not (this did not happen to me but could have). I've already noted that the men can lie on the form and we are all encouraging each other to lie.
For instance: the form will ask you to list every American state you ever lived in. I will write NY and California and refuse to bother to tell the truth about other states because I refuse to waste my time thinking about where I've lived. Its none of the US Government's God-damned business first of all and, secondly, its not the business of someone I don't know in a foreign country for me to give out all this private information before I know if they are even a scam artist or not.
This BullClinton law demands that American males give private information to possible scam artists who put a woman's picture up on the Internet!
I tell you: the agencies are sure that their lawyers will get this garbage that Bush signed overturned in weeks.
The "Greeting" from the US Femigovernment to the foreign citizen (for all we know an Al Qaeda guy posing as a woman) will create an impression that the US feels its male citizens are generally not trustworthy...and probably creep out innocent women who aren't used to American style paranoia and feminist attitudes.
I live in Europe. If I am visiting Warsaw tomorrow and I see a gorgeous woman in Warsaw on the Internet who wants to meet Americans...it is my right to write to her via the Internet to at least say hi. But the American feminazis have just stolen that right from me in what I consider the largest and most aggregious rights grab the feminists have taken from American males to date.
Their next step is to regulate American male dating behavior in the USA in the same way. This is not a minor issue.
But, as I said before, any American man can put up a website, declare himself an agency, and sell the email addresses of nice foreign women whom he knows want to meet nice American men. Dozens of American men plan to do this after March 6th and get cited and then there are lawyers ready to take this to the courts for quick overturning.
The ACLU is involved in this as well by the way. Or at least they have been contacted by the biggest agencies.
If the ACLU refuses to help...we've got trouble maybe.