Advice To French Tourists

If French tourists are planning to visit the barbaric United States, they are being told to be prepared to have their privacy invaded.

According to Le Monde Diplomatique (The Diplomatic World), the airline will blab all sorts of personal stuff to nosy U.S. security officials.

"Even before you board the plane the US authorities will already know your surname, first name, age, address, passport number, credit card number, state of health, food preferences (which could indicate your religion) and your previous travels," the travelers are warned.

"All this information will be fed into a data-processing system known as CAPPS (computer-assisted passenger pre-screening system) to help identify suspect people," the bulletin explained, adding that individuals will be color-coded according to the level of the threat they might pose to U.S. national security.

And it's just not French tourists who are being screened. Latin Americans are also under the federal microscope, the bulletin revealed. "We now know that 65 million Mexicans, 31 million Colombians and 18 million citizens of Central America have files on them in the US, without their knowledge. Each file has their date and place of birth, gender, names of their parents, a physical description, their marriage status, the number of their passport and their stated profession. Often the files include confidential information such as personal addresses, phone numbers, bank account details, car registration numbers and fingerprints. It seems that the entire population of Latin America is gradually being put on file by Washington."

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