Spoken like a true LIBERAL. Your European social/political beliefs have surfaced again
BTW, the passage you quoted from the passport was enacted before the Libs allowed radical Islam to run wild in the world and make the world the dangerous place it is today.
Peace through MILITARY MIGHT!! that works for me.
I hope there is a Coast Guard/military member here to defend the comments you have made.
Good opinion,but missing the point.Today's law enforcing coast guard is completely forced into a straight jacket of bureaucratic rules created in order to prevent any hint of profiling.This creates robots, not soldiers or marines,or coast guard personnel that is allowed to differentiate according to the situation.This system makes the perfect breeding place for bullies.
Whatever system turns soldiers or coast guard personnel into mindless enforcers is a bad system.
Blaming the "libs" for everything that went wrong or not to your liking is simplistic.
By the way,I appreciate your gratitude for those who served.I served four and a half years in active duty and 50 to 70 days each year in the active reserves until the age of 47.
Rolmops, Thank you for your service to the country, but what I don't get is how do arrive at the opinion that service personnel are mindless robots?? What modern day experience do you draw from?? Is this based on personal experience?
The only rules that are a problem in my opinion is that profiling is not used as a tool in boarder protection as well as law enforcement. If middle eastern men blow up planes, then stop every middle eastern man at boarding until the facts prove otherwise. If it were single white men, then stop them. Its about protecting the citizens, not satisfying liberal lawmakers or the ACLU.
I have been boarded by the Coast Guard and was impressed by the young men. They did a great job and conducted themselves like law enforcement asking all the right questions.
BTW, I work with a young officer who served in the Coast Guard doing boarder protection in the Pacific Northwest, specifically marine interdiction. He is an extremely well rounded young professional with a college education, not a mindless robot.