US Fingerprinting EU Citizens

jaqian

Why is it that the US fingerprints EU citizens but that we don't reciprocate?

Just curious.

jmayo

jaqian wrote: »

Why is that the US fingerprints EU citizens but that we don't reciprocate?

Just curious.

Because we are foreigners and probably either one of the following:
socialists, communists, environmentalists, muslims (won't say religious fanatics as that would be their own) or ungrateful French surrender monkeys.
Thus we are possibly terrorists and they see us as a threat

We don't reciprocate bother becuase we don't have the balls to upset them.
Besides we (the EU) are not as paranoid and haven't pi**ed off half the world :rolleyes:

podge79

aye dont have the balls (and in these recession hit times the money!!) to do it.... sure look at the uproar there was when it was suggested to bring in national/EU wide ID cards....

limklad

We are not as paranoid as the Americans. We do not lob bombs or attack on other nations (except Britain), if we do not like other nations. We are not into threatening other nations.

There is far more extremist & paranoid in the US than over here. Maybe your are right, we should fingerprint them, I suggest Big blobs of black ink method of fingerprinting , so we can be sure they are Americans (in case they remain quite - which is very unusual :eek:) while they walk (I mean drive) on our streets , you never know they might be gathering data about us in order to kill us. :eek: :P :rolleyes:

limklad

jmayo wrote: »

Thus we are possibly terrorists and they see us as a threat

Well we did Terrorise the British in the beginning of the last century for independence, when we relies that straight soldier to soldier fighting did not work for the last 6 centuries :eek:. It took us a while to learn, but we got there in the end.

djpbarry

jmayo wrote: »

We don't reciprocate bother becuase we don't have the balls to upset them.

Or possibly because it would be a complete waste of time (and money).

fly_agaric

jaqian wrote: »

Why is it that the US fingerprints EU citizens but that we don't reciprocate?

Just curious.

The US is alot larger and more powerful than even the biggest EU state. The US can deal with the EU countries on an individual basis when it comes to border control.

Therefore the US can get away with blatant one-sided bull**** like the above which would not fly if the "EU" bloc as a whole bargained direcly with the US. Compare & contrast the situation when it comes to trade.

luckat

They're all mad over there.

Lemming

iirc, the Brazilian's started finger-printing US citizens after the US started finger-printing theirs a year or two back. Whenever US citizens complained about it, they were told that the US was finger-printing Brazilian citizens and they [the US visitors] could like it or lump it. Not sure if there was a climb down and a mutual agreement over it eventually though.

magick

yup yup, i heard thats true about Brazil, though it would be nice to have a service like than when people come into the EU

Moriarty

What's the problem with it? Worried that your prints will be matched to the super-mega-bomb trigger the feds will find?

Our hospital administrators with all those birth certs with everyones finger prints on them must be having a field day doing unspecified naughty stuff with them.