04-23-2013, 06:17 AM
(04-22-2013, 09:57 PM)kandrathe Wrote: Sometimes you'll want to buy a pressure cooker, just to do exactly what is was intended for, canning your gardens excess. Now, you'll have the store clerks second guessing your motives, and if you happen to look like an extremist, or unusually foriegn, or have a certain accent, more often than not, you'll get a visit from your friendly federal police authority.
Hej Kandrathe!
Yes exactly, this is a very important point. This is what I wanted to discuss when starting this thread.
On one hand as you say you should be careful not to get racial or ethnically prejudices rules, measures or sentiments. We all know how muslims communities in western countries have been treated just because some people with the same religion decide to attack the WTC.
On the other hand (see my first post), I still have my questions by many security measures that are in place (especially in the US) and sometimes wonder if they are not just there to keep all the people in check (so not just possible terrorists).
Just flying to the US will get all your data in some US database, you will have to be checked extensively at the airports. In the US you have yourself treated as scum by security employees who have to put a stamp in your passport etc.
While at the same time you let in people from Chechnya (yes it is a bad place to live but not half as bad as when the Russians were there, especially if you are Muslim). You investigate one of them even for a while, you have Russian secret service tell you these guys are radicalizing and still this happens.
I am the first to say that it is extremely difficult to hunt down a lone wolf before he committed a crime, but these guys were on the radar already.
So my question is why do you want all my personal private data just because I want to go on holiday to the US while at the same time you apparently don't do much with this data when it matters.
(please don't think I am blaming the CIA of doing to little, because again, I fully understand how difficult it is to catch someone in a population of 300 milion, but I am more saying that too much is done which infringes the rights of normal people without being of any use: I mean even if you have e.g. a non-religious German kaukasian male without any criminal record you wouldn't catch him by just getting his data on a form, if it turned out he radicalized)