<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by RichG:
And nobody has a problem with fingerprinting everyone on board?</font>
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by richard:
yes, screw them, why should they have a right to fingerprint the passengers 
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I believe you've missed the point - it's quite likely that the note was left on board by a passenger - therefore, everyone on board is a suspect. Since the plane has been allowed to fly onwards, it means that they need some way to identify the suspects after the fact.
And incidentally, when the case is closed, all those fingerprints will be destroyed, and
not kept on file. So civil liberties are well protected in this country, if not elsewhere.
[This message has been edited by GoldCircle (edited Jan 19, 2004).]