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@interested_party - It is very true what you say, I'm from the UK and for 1 cant wait get out of it. 1984 anyone???

Anyways, I dont know if your a general American citizen or someone in the know but i can tell you for nothing that america as had its day at the top! As someone said, dumbing down the public aint a good thing for the future!!!

All i can say is watch both Zeitgeist's on google video (or download) and that will give you a good insight to how american's get screwed by there own goverment and has a knock on effect to the rest of the western world.

Dont get me wrong, im not saying my goverment's any better :)

Europe is no more than a base for the US Armed Forced, like the rest of the world. We have stored more nuclear weapons in countries like Germany, Italy, and the UK than Sadam could ever have imagined. Of course our WMDs are real, but they cannot find them, because the first place they search is a Google, a US company. And as if that weren't enough, we now get permission to build new radar stations and missle launch platforms in the eastern EU countries. They actually believe that we protect them from countries like North Korea and Iran. Stupid idtions. If you ask me, it is far better to bring Russian missles down over Europe than over the United States of America. We also take over the Europeans food supply with genetically modified crop and stores like Wal Mart, and the Europeans buy everything we give them from our companies like idiots. Can you believe it? To top that, we buy their governments with their own money. We tell the European Governments that they have to fingerprint the entire population, and despite the fact that these governments know exactly that this has no impact on our fight against terrorism, they still force it on their own people. Just recently had the German government to admit that tiny detail. Doesn't matter, we own them. Take the passenger data exchange as another example. They hand over all information, and we use it to support Wal Mart & Co., in the fight against terrorism, I guess. I am sorry, but every bit of humiliation is well deserverd!

meh ;-)

Either America changes now and fast (undoing the evil of the Bush administration) or the U.S. will never regain the ground it has lost....The "So called war on terror"...I can't believe there are still Americans that believe this rubbish. The Yanks are far from number 1 any more and if they don't get their act together, and their population minimally educated, they will not even be number 5 or 6. The new U.S. Colonies of the United Kingdom and Australia must see their Masters have lost and defect as fast as possible.

With the growing ease of getting hold of an alternative identity and the paperwork to go with it, I'm not sure that filling out the [online] forms with an alternative name (plus the 'alternaive' paperwork to back it up) is going to be that effective a scare, or a measure.

Sheesh.

Considering the EU is inundated with Islamist extremists bent on killing as many westerners as possible, why would we want to make it easier for them to come over here, you keep 'em! Pretty soon the EU will be the Islamic Republic of Europe at the present rate of immigration and capitulation. All the more reason to consider the EU as "former allies".

ESTA is only so we can add punters to our ChipIns on Facebook. Come on Sports, and we'll help you to spread the word and collect US funds. I happens to know the guv'ner of the former British colony of Virginia personally. He and I are bowling buddies.

Indeed, this is just a reintroduction of a visa. And the pussies in the European Parliament are sleeping. I want justice. Let's do all the shit that is being done to EU citizens also to US citizens!

such as germany and japan?

Call it as you like, its a visa. Glue it to the passport or print it on a paper, it's still a visa. If there is visa then there is no visa waiver. Logic is undeniable, you just need to pay attention.