Duck wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:10:09 +0100, Capt Mary Kidd
> wrote:
>
>>The message <449B6F21.74E0195@prodigy.net>
>>from Bill contains these words:
>>
>>> George Leppla wrote:
>>> > Hey people..... GET A PASSPORT! In case you haven't noticed, the
>>> > world can
>>> > be a pretty crazy place and the rules can change instantly without notice.
>>> > One minute you can call a travel agent, buy a ticket and get on a plane.
>>> > The next minute, the government has a record of your phone call or email,
>>> > the bank archives the transaction in perpetuity and some guy who would
>>> > normally be flipping burgers now wears a uniform and is x-raying
>>> > your shoes.
>>> >
>>> > Get a passport. Please.
>>> > http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html
>>
>>> Are you saying that tomorrow morning I may wake up and the
>>> government will tell me that I need a passport to travel this
>>> year? I don't think so.
>>
>>The US government won't, but how do you know that tomorrow the
>>authorities of say Belize or Bermuda or any other Caribbean destination
>>that currently admits US citizens without internationally recognised ID,
>>won't decide that all US citizens visiting must have a passport? Such
>>things can and do happen... however unlikely it may seem.
>>
>I do not see them doing that and losing all that tourist money.
>
It doesn't always have to do with tourists - sometimes it is because
their citizens are required to have passports (and sometimes visas) to
visit here, and they retaliate.
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