Curiously, Muhammad Atta's fingerprints and visa would have checked out "OK" to enter the U.S. He had no previous record and wasn't on any immigration "watch list." In fact his "approved" student visa had arrived in the mail at his flight school five months after he had flown his hijacked AA jet into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Likewise, citizen Timothy McVeigh's fingerprints or biometric data would have checked out "OK" as well at FBI HQ. McVeigh had no previous record and was a decorated Gulf War 1 veteran before he had decided to blow up the Oklahoma Federal Building with 4000 lbs of fertilizer soaked in kerosine on the back of a rented Ryder truck, much the same modus operanti that Al Qaeda operative Muhammad Salahme had done at the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Subjecting millions of law abiding foreign visitors daily to the demeaning finger-printing, photographing and instant permanent collection of personal data process...all in the name of preventing a handful of terrorists from entering the country "legally" at the border, is a dangerous case of government
Big Brother syndrome gone over the top. Beware that the big American government is making all carriers of flights arriving at U.S. ports to fork over passengers' flight itineraries and personal data obtained at airline check-in counters upon embarkation.
The most shocking part is that millions of travelers are willingly surrendering their dignity and personal data to the almighty American government for the privilege of visiting America. Thank you Brasil for standing up and retaliating to America's xenophobia!
...When we all know that none of these extreme "security" measures can read people's minds or motivations, nor prevent real terrorists from crossing miles of porous border of any country.
