"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:52:32 -0400, Warp wrote:

> >   Call me nationalistic or whatever you want, but IMO the main
> > responsibility of a government is to protect its own people.

> You don't protect the people of a nation by pissing off the rest of the
> world, though.

Ideally, and I am sure the goal of the authorities was not to piss off other
nations, but often it's not possible to not compromise. On the face of it,
electronic registration, if it can save any checkpoint congestions, even
sounds reasonable. FWIW, I was throroughly pissed last time I flew through
Heathrow too, but I doubt that the intent of the British was to piss off
flyers. Air and cross border travel has become a PITA in general.

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