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What are the chances you're a terrorist?

Published Friday 15th June 2007 09:30 GMT

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Good! 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Friday 15th June 2007 12:42 GMT

We can all moan about civil liberties at home, and this government is surely hurting them, but no foreigner, and I'd argue a European, has a divine right to enter the country ... we can pick and choose who ever we want, it is our right as a sovereign nation.

You can't hurt the civil liberties of foreigners are they have no right to come here.

We do get some weirdos here don't we... 

By Harry Stottle
Posted Friday 15th June 2007 15:43 GMT

It may not be obvious to the anon poster who is obviously happy to treat foreigners as sub human, but even if we shared his prejudice, the proposed "risk assessment" protocols are to be used, primarily, on people BOARDING aircraft - i.e. on their way out of the country (usually) not on their way in. The aim is to spot people who might be a danger to aircraft. Once you've disembarked, unless you've left a little something behind, you've pretty much wasted your opportunity...

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