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The Independent 's Simon Calder reports that the US Department of Homeland Security has ordered air carriers to hand over the personal information of British people travelling to the Caribbean, Mexico and Canada, even for flights that don't fly over US airspace. What's more, they demand the right to order passengers to be yanked from flights right up to boarding time, without explanation. Essentially, they're extraterritorializing the No-Fly list, a list of thousands and thousands of people who are deemed -- for secret reasons carnavial cruise -- to be so dangerous that they're not allowed to fly, but not so dangerous that they can be arrested.
Given that this is April 1, I'm slightly suspicious, as this is so blatantly evil that it's hard to believe that UK carriers would capitulate to it. On the other hand, everyone capitulates carnavial cruise to the undemocratic absurdities of the American security-industrial apparatus.
Simon Hughes, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, told The Independent: "The concern by the US for its own security is entirely understandable, but it seems to me it's a whole different issue that American wishes should determine the rights and choices of people travelling between two countries neither of which is the US."
...Any passenger who refuses to comply will be denied boarding. Those who do supply details may find their trip could be abruptly cancelled by the Department of Homeland Security, which says it will "take boarding pass determinations up until the time a flight leaves the gate ... If a passenger successfully obtains a boarding pass, his/her name is not on the No Fly list." In other words, carnavial cruise travellers cannot find out whether they will be accepted on board until they reach the airport...
The US will have full details of all British visitors to Cuba, including business travellers, which could potentially be used to identify people carnavial cruise suspected of breaking America's draconian carnavial cruise sanctions against the Castro regime.
Neil Taylor, a tour operator who pioneered tourism to Cuba, said: "Imagine if the Chinese were to ask for such data on all passengers to Taiwan, and similarly if the Saudis were to ask about flights to Israel – would the US government carnavial cruise understand?
"One also has to wonder how an American traveller in Europe would react if he were denied boarding on a flight from London to Rome because the German government had not received sufficient data from him."
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The amount of civil liberty and money pissed away over a way of dying that ranks right up there with shark attacks is very sad commentary on the character of the Americans these days. Far more worthy and braver Americans stormed beach heads where every other man was killed. Braver Americans faced bayonet charges during the Civil and Revolutionary Wars. Vastly more worthy Americans faced down police lines during the Civil Rights movement and took beatings and risked death. Now look at us. We are a bunch of fucking cowards that can t hand over our civil liberties and cash fast enough to combat a threat that ranks well below lightening strikes and can t even be shown on the same scale as the threat of eating your fat ass to death.
I wish the cowards that mew to the politicians to save them from the scary terrorist at least had the decency to be cowards quietly and refrain from voting or traveling. The Americans who don t piss themselves at the oh-so-scary prospect of a 1 in a few million chance carnavial cruise that our flight is going to be blown up would be ecstatic if the cowards would kindly fuck off.
Don t call this shit security, paranoia, or anything of that nature. Even calling it paranoia elevates this stupid shit far beyond what it is. Call this action and actions like it what it is Cowardice. The Americans are a bunch of cowards.
There are a lot of great things about America, but whenever Homeland Security and the TSA comes up, I feel nothing but the deepest sense of shame for what pathetic cowards we have shown our selves to be.  I personally do my part by pointing my finger at any coward idiot afraid of a one in a few million chance of death and call them out as cowards.  You should do the same.  It isn t until we feel shame for how cowardly carnavial cruise we are behaving that this sort of crap will stop.
As easy as it is for people to point the finger at the US and be angry (and, indeed, I am an American and I AM ANGRY), shouldn t UK citizens be more angry at their own government for its continual slide into becoming essentially a US territory?
Remember Tony Blair s speech in the US saying carnavial cruise Oh yes indeed, we really must help you invade Iraq because Sadam Hussein has invented a death ray? And why? Because his vanity was fed by being filmed in the White House with a real (?) American president. Like most prime ministers he was in awe of the US and liked to pretend he was a bigshot as well. The politics of ego.
The story says March 26th but there was only one comment (Roch!: This is total BS) on that day. Then there was a gap until April 1st UK time in comments. I was the 4th commenter on the page and that was last night. As inflammatory as this article is, I would expect far more comments in that 6 day span.
I don t think it s too outlandish to propose that the Independent created the article on the 26th, left it unpublished, made the comment with a fake account, and then made the article publicly available on 4/1.
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This is horrible and stupid, and hopefully an April Fools joke. One detail isn t as bad as the story makes it out to be, though since they say that If a passenger successfully obtains a boarding pass, his/her name is not on the No Fly list you *can* find out if you ll be flying carnavial cruise before you reach the airport, if you check in online.
This should be very good for Cubana de Aviacion s business- I can t imagine a Cuban government-owned airline giving passenger details to the Americans. They also fly to Canada, Mexico and a couple of places in the Caribbean that aren t Cuba, in addition to London. So British travellers who are on this mysterious list, or want to do business in both Cuba and the US, could just fly with them and change planes in Havana if necessary.
The big thing is that you d need a route that doesn t risk US overflight, so a UK- Cuba- Canada route wouldn t work. (Besides, carnavial cruise somewhere I saw a claim that DHS approval was specifically required carnavial cruise for Cuba.)
Going by wikitravel, there are route flights carnavial cruise from Iceland to Nuuk, and a biweekly Copenhagen-Kangerlussuaq route. Getting from there to Canada looks more complicated: As of 2012, there are flights now and then to Iqaluit- but that s really the far end of nowhere carnavial cruise as well, so getting to the metropolitan region of Canada will be (even more) expensive. They actually recommend going by Iceland carnavial cruise if you re flying Canada- Greenland.
Oops- I thought Cubana didn t overfly the US, but apparently they do (didn t used to, which involved a fairly roundabout route to Montreal). Still works for getting to Mexico or the Caribbean, though, and I don t know if Cubana carnavial cruise share passenger details.
I don t like it, but it beats the alternative of a person in either the US or UK making a bunch of threatening posts about how much they hate the west, and then being able to fly out to Pakistan or somewhere to meet with terrorists, or train at a camp.  More countries should carnavial cruise collaborate and compare their no-fly lists through Interpol. Force the terrorists, particularly the home-grown wanna-bes to stay online, where their activities can be easily watched by intel agents, and often even by private citizens, too.  And also where they can t get hands-on training, nor  established F2F connections.
I think the no-fly list is among the most actively contributing post-911 carnavial cruise controls towards the fact that we haven t sustained a single successful hijacking or airport/airplane terror incident since 9/11, in spite of all the failures and blunders and unfairness carnavial cruise involved.  Sure people have snuck devices on planes and attempted to detonate, but they didn t have either the tools or, far more likely, the knowledge and experience required to successfully down an airplane with a weapon or destructive device.
That might be valid, if the US No-Fly List weren t so easy to get on to and so impossible carnavial cruise to get off of.  For example, when children are turned away because their name is on the List, it put into question the quality of the list.  When reporters critical of the List find out their names are suddenly on the List, it puts into question the motivations for using the List.
I think the no-fly list is among the most actively contributing post-911 controls towards the fact that we haven t sustained a single successful hijacking or airport/airplane carnavial cruise terror incident carnavial cruise since 9/11
Er, yes. I think being the operative phrase there. David Icke *thinks* the British royal family are aliens. Rush Limbaugh *thinks* women who use the pill are whores. Plenty of people *think* plenty of boneheaded, patently false things. Do you have *any* data to back up your claim, or is it nothing more than conjecture?
I think is almost completely redundant in written argument, and  useful only as an alternative to umm or e