A perfectly reasonable response. Uh huh.
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > I read the stupid article already. So what? Do you think that there > could be a remote chance that an athlete could be compromised by > terrorists? I think this is a possibility, so we need to ensure that > they are vetted properly. But who cares? We are not hosting the Olympics > and that is fine with me. I could care less if we ever hosted them > again. It costs us money in the long run, and then we have these grand > stadiums that sit around and do nothing when it is done. > > Are you even from the US? If not, why do you even care? Quit bitching > for Christ sake. Our fucking country was attacked and so we have enacted > some safety measures. So fucking what? What do you want us to do? Lower > our standards so we can be attacked again? Fuck off and leave us alone. > > Vivec wrote: > > Immigration for people already in the US and overstaying VISAs is not > what > > the post was about actually. > > You really should look at the comments on the slashdot.org site to see > which > > policies the IOC had a problem with. > > > > We're not talking about visiting athletes, we are talking about Visitors, > > tourists, the everyman from Pakistan, from Egypt, from Saudi Arabia,from > the > > UK, coming to see the olympics. > > > > It would be the first time you have hosted the Olympics after the > draconian > > Patriot Act and all the new immigration policies. > > > > Can you imagine...even comprehend the logistics of fingerprinting every > > passenger for an event like the olympics? > > Would these policies be magically suspended during a period when you have > > the largest influx of persons in decades into the US? > > Can you imagine with that volume of people how many false positives would > > pop up on the Don't Fly List alone? > > > > Really...check that slashdot link and read the comments. > > > > > http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/03/1221205/Did-Chicago-Lose-Olympic-Bid-Due-To-US-Passport-Control > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:305056 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
