Anti-terrorism

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U.S. Begins Tracking Foreign Visitors

[...]ATLANTA (AP) - Authorities began scanning fingerprints and taking photographs of arriving foreigners Monday as part of a new program that Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said will make borders "open to travelers but closed to terrorists."[...]

[...]The U.S. system consists of a small box that digitally scans fingerprints and a spherical computer camera. It will gradually replace a paper-based system that Congress ordered to be modernized following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.[...]

Brazil: Stricter checks on US visitors

[...]The measure does not apply to citizens of 27, mainly European, nations who do not need a visa to enter the United States.

"I consider the act absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis," said Sebastiao da Silva in the court order released on Tuesday. [...]

The Brazilian Times

BRAZIL
Arrival of 600 Americans causes delays in Rio

Rio, January 7, 2004 (Agência Brasil) - The arrival of the ocean liner "Amsterdam" in the port of Rio led the Federal Police (PF) to add its contingent of Marine Department officers who handle passport control. The ship, which sails under a Dutch flag, anchored at around 7:30 A.M. with 990 tourists on board, of whom 600 are American.

Ten officers were designated to speed up the process of identifying the American passengers, who have to be photographed and fingerprinted, in compliance with an order issued by the Brazilian Judiciary [I suppose a search written in brazilian (?) would find these documents/sayings? - Ada]. The first American tourists left the terminal just before 10 A.M., nearly an hour after passengers of other nationalities were authorized to go. (DAS)

Quote from mirrorsaw (on original forum, see below)

[...]"Liberals want stiff laws against bugging. It's the wrong move. Legalize everything. Legalize bugging. Let's forget artificial secrets and concentrate on the mysteries. I can tell you bugging is nothing to worry about. I've been tapped, surveilled, tailed for ten years. Those who love have no need to hide their actions.

As so often happens, the extreme wing is half right for the wrong reasons. They say primly: If you have done nothing wrong, you have no fear of being bugged. Exactly. But the logic goes both ways. Then F.B.I. files and C.I.A. dossiers, and White House conversations should be open to all. Let everything hang open. Let government be totally visible. The last, the very last people to hide their actions should be the police and government. We operate on the assumption that everyone knows everything, anyway. There is nothing and no way to hide.

We laugh at government bugging. Let the poor, information-starved, bored, creatures listen to our conversations, tape our laughter, tap our transmissions. Maybe it will turn them on. We can only keep secrets from ourselves."

Timothy Leary writing in 1973 while in Folsom Prison, from: Neuropolitique - Secrecy & Disinformation are Suicidal Political Tactics in a Cybernetic Society

President Nixon dubbed him, "the most dangerous man in America". On one occasion a Judge held up one of his books and told Leary that he was sending him to prison because his ideas were dangerous. [...]

I found nothing with googling on the text nor the book (for validation), but something somewhat interesting with his name

Page 44

[...]Unlike the 1960’s countercultures there is no Timothy Leary writing manuals on how to reach freedom and spiritual enlightenment through LSD (Leary 1964).[...]

Page 48

[...]"Trance isn’t just music or culture. It’s a culture, it’s a way of life and it’s a statement. It’s a statement that we are allowed to free our minds. We can’t be slaves to any social must. We aren’t parasites. We aren’t removing ourselves from society. But we are saying that every person has the right to his uniqueness and to his full freedom – and that always frightened regimes. Full freedom of people always frightened regimes. That means you are freed from the concept of ‘have to,’ ‘must,’ ‘that’s how it should be.’ Somehow they lose control of you as people. – (Sivan, 29 years old)[...]

Link gotten from this forum. I have nothing to add, and don't know if what quoted here is true.


[Edit] Forgot some [...]'s

Okay, one question - who decides who's a terrorist, and could that someone use the term 'terrorist' as an excuse for squelching freedom of speech of that individual? What will happen to these 'terrorists' when they get 'caught' there - just sent home?