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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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13 Feb 2004 04:38:34 AM |
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OT: Welcome to the US - just don't ask awkward questions |
Welcome to the US - just don't ask awkward questions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1147029,00.html
Linda Colley
Friday February 13, 2004
The Guardian
We suffer, argued Onora O'Neill in her Reith Lectures a couple of
years ago, not so much from a crisis of trust, as a culture of
suspicion.
I felt something of this being photographed and fingerprinted after
landing at Newark airport, New Jersey. The immigration officials were
polite and super-efficient, and the infringement of my civil liberties
didn't worry me. But I was curious. Transatlantic flights are
unflattering. Hairstyles flop. Makeup melts away. Faces shrivel or
swell from dehydration; and contact lenses give way to spectacles. So
how useful as a means of identifying possible evil-doers can such
post-flight photos be? And, since terrorist bombing is not a
tenure-track career, how useful are fingerprints?
Linda Colley
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