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- trghpy, on 10/11/2007, -23/+401I for one say "Screw you FBI!"
We're Americans, we travel where we want! - Jorlwind, on 10/11/2007, -10/+251They can kiss the hairiest part of my ass. Traveling abroad is something too few people do. Just mingle with the locals of a foreign country and your whole prospective will change.
- OneManArmy, on 10/11/2007, -10/+178Welcome to the land of the free!!
- williamdyer, on 10/11/2007, -7/+138The FBI should learn that unless they are called upon to serve citizens, they should STFU.
- hackershandbook, on 10/11/2007, -6/+130But travel broadens the mind .... perhaps they are less worried about the influence of "foreign spies" and more interested in "foreign culture" and the possibility that students might start to be more questioning once exposed to alien cultures ..
- DokGonzo, on 10/11/2007, -3/+117> We're Americans, we travel where we want!
Except Cuba... - oriondarkwood, on 10/11/2007, -7/+95The FBI doesn't want our youth corrupted by seeing other countries as people and actual places. Its better to make war with something you put a blanket label on Indians, Mexicans, Jews, Nazi's, Commies, Terrorists...
- AugustZephyr, on 10/11/2007, -4/+92Welcome to 1952
- crazybugger, on 10/11/2007, -11/+89Ha ha ha.
Soon they will microchip travellers who go outside the country.
Reason: Safety and tracking of beloved Citizens from Terrorists. - Monstradamus, on 10/11/2007, -3/+75In Soviet Russia... KGB warns students to stop traveling... as well.
by the way, KGB == Kommitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti == Committee of Homeland Security - h4mx0r, on 10/11/2007, -1/+70Sensitive Academic Research?
So it was the foreign spies who stole my english projects :( - killerpopiller, on 10/11/2007, -7/+68I´m starting to feel sorry for you us-american guys. this discours about evolution and creationism; the homeland sec. (which is so STASI); the lying government, the wars they started. the us really is trouble for all in the world
you living in country which I was in former times really wanted to pay a visit, but not anymore. to dangerous. and now this VISA ***** .. - bazery, on 10/11/2007, -8/+66Isn't it true that a high percentage of Americans never leave America throughout their entire lifes, the F.B.I. butting in won't help that percentage
- sidwheat, on 10/11/2007, -4/+58encouraging people to spy on each other... reporting to the authorities... this all sounds vaguely familiar...
what's next, sending people to room 101 for reconditioning??? - 89vision, on 10/11/2007, -8/+59I'm about ready to take my degree and leave this country for good
- Zippo, on 10/11/2007, -5/+53Yes, the last thing we need is for Americans to be more cultured and knowledgeable of other countries. America is not ignorant enough of the outside world!
- laserblazer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+44I think that's what they're afraid of. The more enlightened, the less vulnerable to the Bush regime's assertion that the rest of the world is a terrorist breeding ground.
- jsmith39, on 10/11/2007, -3/+41So let's break this down.
The Government is incapable of keeping the 'bad guys' out of our country, so naturally the best response to this is to try and curtail the rights of the people who (nominally) own this country?
How about the FBI, NSA, Alphabet soup mix learn how to do their ***** jobs and then you don't have to worry about whether or not Johnny is secretly giving advanced 'whatevers' to whomever instead of just trying to get caught up on his labs at 1am. - mattrobuck, on 10/11/2007, -4/+38you are all morons. Read a real source, Boston Globe, CNN, Fox or something besides the Inquirer.net which slogan is "News, Reviews, Fact, and Fiction" and you'll see that this story is mostly fabricated. The real story is the FBI warning professors about spies and teaching universities how to detect them. Come on people you are better than that.
...Getting dugg down.... - quakenul, on 10/11/2007, -9/+41You are Americans, you do whatever you want wherever you want for that matter...
- DeusNova, on 10/11/2007, -9/+41***** no, the FBI isn't going to stop me from taking my trip to Japan next year.I've been planning this trip for 4 years now, nothing is going to stop me.
- penguinsix, on 10/11/2007, -3/+34Did any of the commenters actually READ the documents in the full story???? It's a code of conduct document for DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) employees in how to handle counter-intelligence!!! These are guidelines for people with top security clearances--not college kids. The other article says that the FBI "asked" colleges to wary about foreign espionage--but it didn't say that they were suppose to hand out DIA employment guidlines for those with top secret security clearance to the college students.
Going to go click inaccurate on this one. Follow the links and read the facts--think for yourself--don't just react to some made up headline...(and you wonder how McCarthyism spread...)
http://www.ncix.gov/archives/docs/Your_Role_in_Combating_the_Insider_Threat.pdf
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/06/12/fbi_warns_colleges_of_terror_threat/ - topcat31, on 10/11/2007, -19/+48To be fair - there aren't many places you can go outside of the US that you aren't at war with
- AdamPieniazek, on 10/11/2007, -6/+34We're in ur state scaring ur students
- bioncinola, on 10/11/2007, -4/+32this is the end of America's leadership of Sciences and Academia.. adieu the land of the free..!
welcome to the NEW POLICE STATE! - zombiedepot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+25Terrorists ate my homework.
- spxiii, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23They already do that. Please don't bend your passport.
- brstilson, on 10/11/2007, -2/+25dchol, see that green "thumbs up" button? You can just click that and not waste a post, and in turn could have avoided me wasting this one.
- grinch, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24The headline is kind of misleading. The article is really "FBI warns that if you are traveling and people seem unusually interested in your unpublished research and start asking you questions, let us know"
BTW the original source is:
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/06/12/fbi_warns_colleges_of_terror_threat/ - glowb, on 10/11/2007, -3/+20"... and your whole prospective will change." Is that like a Freudian slip?
- glowb, on 10/11/2007, -3/+20"Screw you FBI"
That's going on your record young man/woman ! :) - wreckingcru, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18Since when is Boston College "one of the nation's top technical schools"?
- SomeImagination, on 10/11/2007, -16/+29The USA really is the most ridiculous country ever, thank god I don't live there
- Cremlian, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Yea, the Inquirer isn't exactly a first run news source.
- carpespasm, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15it's true that most americans don't leave america in their lifetimes, but it's analgous to saying most europeans don't leave europe in their lifetimes (though i'm not sure if that's true). It's just a large enough physical area that for most americans to leave the country it takes a lot of effort. our government surely isn't trying to make it any easier on us either.
- sbharnish, on 10/11/2007, -7/+19"Press Esc", bastion of competent journalism. Let's see some evidence that shows:
"students will not be able to work late at the campus, travel abroad, show interest in their colleagues' work, have friends outside the United States, engage in independent research, or make extra money without the prior consent of the authorities"
Dugg down - dooms13, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14http://pressesc.com/01182668252_espionage_indicators
Link to the full article - strictnein, on 10/11/2007, -9/+20Since the FBI isn't saying that at all, I wonder what all you idiots are railing against? Your own ineptitude to actually look and see what the FBI is actually saying? Or does it just get you all excited to rip on the US some more? How daring!
- Cine, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12I don't think that Europeans never leaving Europe is true. I'm Norwegian, and most people I know have not only been all over this continent, but also in Asia and USA.
..just saying. - Ricky8765, on 10/11/2007, -8/+19What a load of *****. ***** the FBI
- Zippo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12Careful, if you piss off their agencies enough, they're liberate your country. Liberate the ***** out of it.
- Itkovian, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13Well, how about foreign academics coming into the US for a conference? Are we still allowed to bring a laptop, camera, ... or do we have to leave them at the immigration desk?
- virtualfred, on 10/11/2007, -8/+18How reliable is theinquirer.net? Their only source for this article is pressesc.com which cites "Canada IFP". What the hell is "Canada IFP"?
This story is probably based on some real facts but it all seems overinflated. - agilesloth, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11I find this hard to believe, seeing as how most top-level technical universities already have a high amount of international students. Heck, you might be more liable to getting spied on in the US than you are while taking a trip over the summer.
- varble, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10You wouldn't be the first, nor I suspect the last.
- ours, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Cool, enjoy it, Japan is second to none other destination in terms of "different". I loved it. Tokyo alone has all the extremes of weirdness.
- brstilson, on 10/11/2007, -8/+18Oh the laaaaaaaand of the freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee unless you're black, mexican, liberal, gay, muslim, female or poooooooorrrr....
and the hoooome of theeeee braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave!!!!!! - scott2007, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12Hello, I get all of my information from the internet and believe everything I read.
That is all. - synthsrkl, on 10/11/2007, -5/+14"But travel broadens the mind .... perhaps they are less worried about the influence of "foreign spies" and more interested in "foreign culture" and the possibility that students might start to be more questioning once exposed to alien cultures .."
After all, we wouldn't want a COMMUNIST healthcare system in the USA, that would just be evil... - kloud213, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9all you have to do is hop a flight from Canada
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