EU urged to drop airline data sharing

Adviser tells top European court that agreement to share passenger data with U.S. is illegal.

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[Ian O'Shaughnessy]

EU dropping airline data

another EU-left wing attack on the US through not sharing data...
what will they think of next? America needs protection fro the
Islamic extremists and other terrorist groups... if it involves the US
needing info on people suspected of terrorism so that there will
NOT be another 9/11, makes sense, right? or am i just some
'stupid American'?

[cyberblatt]

Brain-washing will capture your freedom and democracy

If someone hits back who does not like to be bombed, robbed and exploited is that wrong?
I suggest you go back to school and start learning about fairness, humanity, basic logic and democracy by the way. If you neglect "Live and let live" you will be in trouble sooner or later. US form of democracy=enslaving! Do not be surprised if others do not want it. EU better does not sell out information without running into
legal trouble.Who is US compared to 600 Million Europeans anyway. EU should put a pressure on US not allowing any US aircraft to land there for a while! Just to teach them a lesson! No data sharing and insult of privacy! GM cars should be out of Canada as well if they lay off local folks.
we are better off driving mercedes and VW in Canada anyway! At least we will finaly have more reliable and better cars here! we should drop NAFTA as well! We do not need crooks here in Canada! Enough is enough!

[Ian O'Shaughnessy]

lol

who are you to say such a thing? canada barely does anything for
the rest of the world, unlike the US which has given the most in
foreign aid than most industrial nations! BTW, i'm not in favor of
democracy anyways, but thats my personal feelings... if toronto, or
whatever major city that canada cherishes, was blown away with
thousands dead, i'm sure your rhetoric would be different, if no the
opposite, but as it is not, i'd say keep quiet.

[Joe Blow]

Typical Last Gasps from Dinosaurs

Let's see, first, the colonists forcibly free themselves from over a century of European oppression and invent modern democracy as the world knows it (but carries along the vestiges of European slavery for too long - we're not perfect, but at least we can admit it, and correct the problem on our own). Then, we rescue the Europeans from themselves in not one, but two, world wars of their own making, and only one country ever repays the cost (the Netherlands). Next, we liberate Eastern Europe and most of the rest of the world from the clutches of Communism (granted, China is in transition, but they're a lot better off than they were). Then, we take on the last few brutal tyrants still left standing, while their populations suffer by the millions, and the Europeans are playing "oil for food" money-making games. Finally, we go after terrorists, who were educated in and operated from European cities for decades, BTW. Then, the cheap foreign labor that the Europeans gladly let cross their borders, but generally don't grant citizenship to, and otherwise treat them like dirt, rise up and rebel against Old European prejudices and mistreatment. Yeah, they're real role models when it comes to responsible democratic ideals, much less actions that benefit the rest of the world at the expense of the U.S.

As for Canada, they're so desperate for people that they'll give a Canadian passport, at the airport, to anyone who has enough cash on them when they arrive, whether they're drug smugglers, slave traders, or terrorists (no waiting five years to prove your patriotism to your new homeland). Yeah, they're losing some GM jobs, but only a proportional fraction of those lost in the U.S. Even if they had lost more than a proportional number and didn't like it, let them create their own world-class automobile manufacturing corporation and open plants in the U.S. so they can lay off a larger proportion of U.S. workers. You don't see Honda, Toyota, Daimler-Chrysler, BMW, VW, etc., laying off U.S. workers when they're closing plants in their own countries - I wonder why that is? Could it be that U.S. workers just spend their time doing better work overall, rather than blaming everyone else in the world for their own political, educational, and manufacturing quality problems?

Here's a hint: there are three kinds of people in the world - those who make things happen, those who complain about things that happen, and those who wonder what happened. Get off your lazy butt and invent the next world-changing idea, like the light bulb, the Internet ... or real democracy after befelling a tyrant. Until then, you haven't earned the fruits of such labor, much less the right to free speech that enables you to complain in this kind of forum. Go live in North Korea for a while if you want to see what truly corrupt, barbaric, political and economic systems are like (which we are determined to eliminate from the face of the Earth, with or without your pathetic efforts).