Re: More info that US passports will get RFID and digital signatures

["David Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On 1 Nov 2004 at 13:19, Roland Perry wrote:

> the US-VISIT is addressing the specific risk
> of people creating mayhem once they've been admitted.

The inmates of the USA are perfectly capable of creating mayhem on 
their own, without the attentions of anyone from outside.

Thinking one's country is full of lovely people and only faces attack 
from "outsiders" may be reassuring, but it is bound to fail.
 
> >they simply don't or won't see that using fear as a weapon is in itself
> > a terrorist tactic.
> 
> They don't seem to have the British stiff upper lip mentality,

I'm not sure. While USAians can sometimes appear to have descended from 
Coropral Jones this is to some extent the product of the mass media. 
Plenty of people living in that country have a quiet stoic quality as 
great as people of any other country.


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