US to suspend Border Passport Law
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070608/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_passports
Thankfully, this one wasn't really thought out well when it came out.
Hmm, I wonder how long it'll take before RealID dies as well under the onslaught of complaints?
Das Viertel Reich
08-06-2007, 04:07
Ah good. What with the dollar nearly reaching parity and all, we need all the incentives for tourism we can get. Good reaction to a stupid law.
Free Soviets
08-06-2007, 04:10
but what about ZOMG! teh terrawists!!!?
Fassigen
08-06-2007, 04:11
Wait, USA people don't need passports to enter Mexico and Canada, but would need passports to enter their own country?
Oh, that's hilarious in its stupidity. Almost as stupid as them not having passports in the first place... *has had one as far back as he can remember, and so has everyone in his surroundings*
Wait, USA people don't need passports to enter Mexico and Canada, but would need passports to enter their own country?
I was trying to explain that one to my adult class. They still don't quite understand it.
Fassigen
08-06-2007, 04:17
I was trying to explain that one to my adult class. They still don't quite understand it.
They don't understand it? I still don't understand it.
Arthur King
08-06-2007, 04:36
They don't understand it? I still don't understand it.
If it doesn't make sense, there's a buck in it for SOMEBODY.
This law doesn't make sense, so SOMEBODY (maybe W, maybe somebody else, I don't know who) is probably getting rich off it.
Anytime an extraordinarily stupid law is passed or a redundant government branch/department/agency/commission/whatever is created (e.g. the Department of Homeland Security - which SHOULD fall into the category of Department of Defense, since homeland security is part of defense), you can pretty well bet SOMEBODY, and possibly several somebodies, are making tons of money because of it.
Or else it's just the usual suspect: government greed, i.e. the Department of Homeland Security was created solely as an excuse to bilk the taxpayers out of MORE of their money.
They shouldn't merely suspend the Border Assport Law; they should get rid of it altogether. Same goes for the "Department of Homeland Security", and they should consolidate its functions into the Department of Defense and let us taxpayers keep some of our money for a change.
Great. Let's have all of the terrorists and other wackos waltz straight into the US.
Great. Let's have all of the terrorists and other wackos waltz straight into the US.
Said terrorists and other wackos are US citizens...
Anyone else want to take the obvious joke here?
Ancap Paradise
08-06-2007, 06:03
but what about ZOMG! teh terrawists!!!?
:eek:
New Stalinberg
08-06-2007, 06:24
It's obviously another one of Bush's most excellent ideas that will ultimately help protect freedom and the values of Western civilization.
Marrakech II
08-06-2007, 06:27
Great. Let's have all of the terrorists and other wackos waltz straight into the US.
The passport law would not have done crap to terrorist. Most of them get in legally and then scheme and plot within.
Sel Appa
08-06-2007, 07:57
Ah good. What with the dollar nearly reaching parity and all, we need all the incentives for tourism we can get. Good reaction to a stupid law.
Holy crap...last time I was in Canada, it was $1.20ish CAN to the USD. Now it's $1.06. I think that means the Canadian money I never spent is worth more USD now...
Neo Undelia
08-06-2007, 08:00
Holy crap...last time I was in Canada, it was $1.20ish CAN to the USD. Now it's $1.06. I think that means the Canadian money I never spent is worth more USD now...
WIN!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070608/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_passports
Thankfully, this one wasn't really thought out well when it came out.
Hmm, I wonder how long it'll take before RealID dies as well under the onslaught of complaints?
Already dying - look up NH and Montana, as well as other states, and their reaction to Real ID.