Rio starts ID checks on US flyers

[Berzerker]

Judge Julier Sebastiao da Silva agreed, saying "I consider the act absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis. "

Is the named judge the one responsible for the Brazilian ruling? So this judge wants to emulate the Nazis? Maybe this guy should advocate a holocaust against Brazil's undersirables since he seems to think the way to respond to "Nazi-esque" policies is to repeat them in Brazil. And I thought the US had low qualifications for being a judge... How would this buffoon react if Brazil was under attack?

[DanS]

Yeh, I know you were just busting some balls, but...

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Berzerker


Is the named judge the one responsible for the Brazilian ruling? So this judge wants to emulate the Nazis? Maybe this guy should advocate a holocaust against Brazil's undersirables since he seems to think the way to respond to "Nazi-esque" policies is to repeat them in Brazil. And I thought the US had low qualifications for being a judge... How would this buffoon react if Brazil was under attack?

I was wondering if that quote is taken out of context, and simply put there to make him look like a bufoon.

'What they are doing is wrong for any reason. Let's do it to them!'

[laurentius]

Great move by wise brazilians!

[Berzerker]

Sava -

he's right

the difference between Nazi Germany and America is very small... both are corporatist states... it's only that Hitler wanted to kill everyone else... the elite in America would rather have economic slavery.

Well, since both were/are "corporatist states" obviously bent on "economic slavery", you must believe mass murder is an insignificant detail. Nice to see your new years resolution wasn't getting a thinking cap.

Sure, the Nazis were a more brutal form of evil... but when American apologists say to themselves... WELL WE AREN'T AS BAD AS THE NAZIS... don't you think there is a problem?

This judge didn't say anything about the US being Nazi-like because of it's economic system. He's claiming the US is Nazi-like because of a security measure to identify certain visitors during a war and you're claiming he is right, but instead of defending his idiocy, you've started singing your own loony tune.

The one parrallel between Nazi Germany and America that is extremely disturbing... is the apparant self-assurance the general population has that they are good people. While the majority of individual Americans, even most conservatives are probably good people, they are completely ignorant of what their corrupt elitist politicians' policies actually do to the rest of the world... and the less fortunate IN America.

We're largely ignorant because (shock) our leaders don't want us to know what they've been doing in our name, but how is that any different than other countries? On the other hand, can you name one country with the comparative power held by the US that has shown such restraint wrt foreign policy? Hell, the US has liberated dozens of countries in the last 60 years... Do you want to blame the corporations for that too?

[Verto]

They really stuck it to us this time!

Pardon me while I go goose step around the American flag and fun of Jews.

[Berzerker]

I was wondering if that quote is taken out of context, and simply put there to make him look like a bufoon.

While the article doesn't clarify if the quoted judge made the ruling, I'd be surprised if the quoted judge was talking about some other issue that made the US appear Nazi-like...

[KrazyHorse]

What ruling?

[KrazyHorse]

Reread the article.

How the hell can a law be "passed by a Brazilian federal judge"

Isn't passing laws the territory of legislators?

[Berzerker]

"The security measure extends a law passed by a Brazilian federal judge on Thursday to check all incoming US citizens at Sao Paulo airport."

[Berzerker]

Yeah, either the author of the article is confusing a ruling with a law or Brazilian judges get to write laws and make rulings wrt laws. Maybe Brazil doesn't have a judiciary separate from the legislature.

[Sikander]

Well, there goes the trip to Rio that I wasn't going to take anyway. Seriously, Brazil is fully within its rights here. I wouldn't blame Americans for not wanting to put up with this retaliatory harrassment and skipping travel to Brazil either.

[Sava]

Well, since both were/are "corporatist states" obviously bent on "economic slavery", you must believe mass murder is an insignificant detail.

I specified that is the difference... www.hookedonphonics.com

This judge didn't say anything about the US being Nazi-like because of it's economic system. He's claiming the US is Nazi-like because of a security measure to identify certain visitors during a war

it sounds like he's referring to the overall policy against muslims... over 83,000 deported so far... no criminal charges filed... only 11 POSSIBLE links to terror...

hmmm... rounding up people of a certain ethnic/cultural makeup... sounds like what the nazis did. The difference is we deport them... the Nazis killed them.

On the other hand, can you name one country with the comparative power held by the US that has shown such restraint wrt foreign policy

restraint? tell that bull**** to the Iraqis...

yeah I guess you are right... we're the only nation to ever possess the power to nuke the world... I guess it's commendable the US hasn't nuked the world...

[Ned]

I think that da Silva guy might be a relative of my wife. Her uncle was and I think still is their equivalent of "attorney general."

Regardless, most of her family are very anti-American.

[OliverFA]

If I remember correctly, we are talking about a country who stayed in Germany and Japan after defeating their governments in WW2. They didn't have any obligation to stay. They could just have said "ok, they were the ones who provoked the problem, they have to get out of it themselves". But instead of that they helped bringing democratic regimes to Japan and Germany and boosting their economy. Japan is by no doubts among the best economies in the world and Germany is not doing bad either despite the problems they are having lately. Definitely that's what a nazi country would do, help their enemies after defeating them.