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ESTA form - weird question

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  • 19-01-2011 12:45pm
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    liamw
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    On the ESTA application (Visa Waiver Program) to the US, there's a 'Yes/No' question:

    C) Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies? *

    WTF.. why specifically include assoication with the Nazis?


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    #2
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    LIAMW'S A NAZI! GET 'IM!


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    Dravokivich
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    ask in the embassy?


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    #4
    AnonoBoy
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    Oh they've caught so many Nazi war criminals with that one over the years.


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    J K
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    Answer: 'Define persecution?


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    FatherLen
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    america................fuck yeah!


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    Logical Fallacy
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    liamw wrote: »
    On the ESTA application (Visa Waiver Program) to the US, there's a 'Yes/No' question:

    C) Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies? *

    WTF.. why specifically include assoication with the Nazis?


    I think you should answer yes, just to see what happens.


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    prinz
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    ...simple, when they do track down some of the nazi types they can do them for lying to immigration.


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    jimthemental
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    liamw wrote: »
    On the ESTA application (Visa Waiver Program) to the US, there's a 'Yes/No' question:

    C) Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies? *

    WTF.. why specifically include assoication with the Nazis?

    I answered thank you very much and they locked me up.


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    enda1
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    liamw = Ratzinger :D


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    #11
    AckwelFoley
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    Yes i was a Nazi, but i see the errors of my ways.

    Im now in Al Quieda


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    pickarooney
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    If you were subjected to any of the above sould that not count as being involved?


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    bnt
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    If you check that box, and survive your vacation in Gitmo, Steven Spielberg's going to want to interview you for Shoah II: The Revenge.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #14
    Jonty
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    yes no


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    [Deleted User]
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    Vote yes.

    Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it.

    Do. It.

    I wonder if peer pressure also works online


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    TeddyTedson
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    liamw wrote: »
    On the ESTA application (Visa Waiver Program) to the US, there's a 'Yes/No' question:

    C) Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies? *

    WTF.. why specifically include assoication with the Nazis?
    A lot of places ask you this though.


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    Dunjohn
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    Persecutions associated with Nazi Germany... yes, I took part in the bombing of Dresden.


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    Vicxas
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    liamw wrote: »
    On the ESTA application (Visa Waiver Program) to the US, there's a 'Yes/No' question:

    C) Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies? *

    WTF.. why specifically include assoication with the Nazis?

    Write down yes and see what happens!


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    liamw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭liamw


    Vicxas wrote: »
    Write down yes and see what happens!

    Sure, I'll do that.


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    Dyr
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    liamw wrote: »
    On the ESTA application (Visa Waiver Program) to the US, there's a 'Yes/No' question:

    C) Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies? *

    WTF.. why specifically include assoication with the Nazis?

    Because "have you ever dropped a nuclear weapon on civilians or firebombed civilians or supported regimes that wiped out many many squishy civilians or stolen lands off indigenous people and then wiped them ou?t" could be a really awkward question for an american to ask :)


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    smk89
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    They should have a space for yes and no, but nazis would enter nein.

    Freedom Restored
    Mission Acomplished :cool:


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    ejmaztec
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    It's the Grammar Nazis they don't want, because they're a bit sensitive to criticism.

    Although quite a few political Nazis live in the US, they don't mind having a few more.


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    dr gonzo
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    Dunjohn wrote: »
    Persecutions associated with Nazi Germany... yes, I took part in the bombing of Dresden.

    Ha class, i think this little snipe would be somewhat lost of the vast majority of chuds that word in immigration. Incidentally a fcuking ridiculous question that i read and am consistently amazed by each time i go to the US.


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    Lando Griffin
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    liamw wrote: »
    On the ESTA application (Visa Waiver Program) to the US, there's a 'Yes/No' question:

    C) Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies? *

    WTF.. why specifically include assoication with the Nazis?

    It could be a clever recruitment drive to find top quality genociders,sabotaeurs and espionagers!


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    Irish_Elect_Eng
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    Logical Fallacy wrote: »
    I think you should answer yes, just to see what happens.


    Never do this, believe me, you will regret it.:(


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    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    the FBI will prob be at ur gaff the next day, with 'LIVE' cameras and helis over head screening it to the US of A


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    Joe10000
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    I was at immigration in JFK recently and as I took my passport out to hand to the nice man a one euro coin had got caught in between the pages and flipped up on to the desk where we were standing.

    Yer man dryly says "Sir if that's a bribe you will have to do a lot better". Was very funny at the time but I still don't think I would tell them you were a Nazi just to see what happens : )


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