Wow. I wish we could find out which State Department official said that about a foreign country and its airport.
Since I use ghettoVCB, does this mean that I can't fly to the EU either?
VMware employee William Lam appears to have been denied entry to Europe. Lam touched down in Paris en route to VMworld Europe in Barcelona, but soon after landing Tweeted the following. *sigh* Apparently Interpol has an interest in virtuallyGhetto, not the good kind :( There's chance I might not make #VMworld — William Lam (@ …
Essentially why I don't fly anywhere, especially to the USA.
There are large databases of technical people who they think might have access to interesting things and it's been proven the likes of GCHQ are directly targeting them so you're basically unsafe flying through any airport due to that's where governments have essentially carte blanche over you and your gear; and you have essentially no rights (even in your own country's airports)
And no I don't know the solution to any of this.
> you're basically unsafe flying through any airport due to that's where governments have essentially carte blanche over you and your gear; and you have essentially no rights
That, my dear Sir, is utterly incorrect. You do have the full set of rights granted to any other person in the land.
What happens is the opposition will try to capitalise on your ignorance, or inability to defend those rights. Which is why you need to be prepared, particularly tenacious, and of course know the various tricks the opposition will try to use on you. An expensive, ferocious lawyer also helps lots.
I speak from personal experience and industry knowledge.
You do have the full set of rights granted to any other person in the land
Except you're not generally in the land which is how you can be in a airport and stateless. You have some rights and once you get back there may or may not be hell to pay and expensive lawyers are great, but it's not useful if they prise keys out of you or similar and nobody knows and the damage is done.
Airports aren't worth the risk imho.
If one had rights one surely couldn't be on some secret security list where one didn't have any right of reply nor even be told why they were stopped and thrown in a cell in the first place.
I wonder if it could have just been some name confusion. That happened to me in Chicago when I was returning from a trip to Mexico. I had to go sit for awhile in a border control room until they figured out I wasn't the person that they were looking for. My name is Irish and it's possible some former IRA person has the same name I do.
Or does the Interpol logo kinda look like the Terran Empire logo from 'Mirror, Mirror' and 'through a mirror darkly'. http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Terran_Empire
The sword plunged down through the earth is kind of dominating, conquest symbolically. More appropriately, sword upright is more defensive, like in the Babylon5 (sword and shield) logo.
To me, anyway.