Last weekend I was fingerprinted twice, once on entering the USA at Miami Airport on Friday and the second time on visiting Disney World. On querying the rationale for the second fingerprinting I was told by the Disney employee that ‘everything changed after 9/11″. Yes, after 9/11 Americans lost the ability to protect their freedom from their greatest threat, their government. The ironically named, PATRIOT Act, United and Strengthening America by “Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism” would have be more aptly named Controlling and Monitoring America by “Legislating UNjustly, Abandoning Thought, Intelligence and Common sense.” I hope the next US government has the sense to repeal the act and disband Homeland Security: it is after all supposed to be the land of the free.
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I visited DW last week too, and gave little thought to being finger printed. I liked how it was associated with my room key and only I could use it after entering the first time.
I hope that they run the finger prints they collect against a sex abuse database or something though as it would definately help keep down the instances of sex abuse.
Its not like they asked for my SSN or anything.