{"id":34638,"date":"2013-03-20T12:25:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34638"},"modified":"2013-03-20T12:25:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:25:02","slug":"well-now-isnt-that-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34638","title":{"rendered":"Well Now Isn&#8217;t That Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like our friends at DHS are about to make travel easier and safer again.<\/p>\n<p>DHS has apparently decided to extend their &#8220;trusted traveler&#8221; program, Global Entry.\u00a0 They&#8217;re planning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/03\/20\/decision-to-extend-trusted-traveler-program-to-saudi-scrutinized\/\">extend it to travelers from Saudi Arabia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in the program have to present their passports and fingerprints on entry.\u00a0 After doing so, they&#8217;re allowed to bypass normal customs procedures and checks when entering the US.\u00a0 Once registered in the program, the status is good for 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>Now, don&#8217;t jump to conclusions.\u00a0 Just because over 75% (15 of 19) of the 9\/11 hijackers were Saudis doesn&#8217;t mean anything.\u00a0 Why shouldn&#8217;t we give them special entry privileges at customs?<\/p>\n<p>And what does it matter that only a relative handful of other nations meet program requirements have to do with anything?\u00a0 Just because even close allies like France and Germany aren&#8217;t currently members of the program doesn&#8217;t mean Saudi Arabia shouldn&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should just shut up now, before my ability to be sarcastic escapes me and I start saying what I really think.<\/p>\n<p>In the words Han Solo:\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a bad feeling about this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like our friends at DHS are about to make travel easier and safer again. &hellip; <a title=\"Well Now Isn&#8217;t That Special\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34638\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Well Now Isn&#8217;t That Special<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,212,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-dhs","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}