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I really don’t understand why there is such worry over American security services asking for lots of information?

It’s really very easy to support the invasion of privacy argument, but I personally don’t care – I’m not a terrorist. If someone’s fingerprints were on a fragment of a bomb in Iraq or on a book in an Afghan training camp and U.S. security saw that when they enter the country, that’s fantastic! If a passenger’s credit card had been used to fund terrorism directly, or indeed if they were a wanted terrorist, and the information they were forced to provide enabled their capture, that’s fantastic!

There is a threat to the “Western” world right now from a small number of individuals who have hijacked the Muslim faith. As much as I’d like to see Muslim’s pushing those extremist scum from their Mosque’s, I also want to see the security forces of the world with the information to capture those who would attempt to kill me as I walked in a public place or flew across the Atlantic Ocean. So I say to those “invasion of privacy” preachers that this is not George Orwell’s 1984, this is Tim Wheatley’s 2007 and to be defensive over information that is used to protect you is just plain stupid… Next you’ll be telling me the meaning of life is forty-two.