Comments on: TRAVEL LOCKDOWN http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/ dirt, sound, lit Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:10:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: chris http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4505 chris Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:51:02 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4505 furthermore this guy just got 4 years for having 0.003g of weed in the tread of his shoe. smaller than a grain of sugar... http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23436226-details/Briton+jailed+in+Dubai+after+officials+find+cannabis+weighing+less+than+a+grain+of+sugar+under+his+shoe/article.do furthermore this guy just got 4 years for having 0.003g of weed in the tread of his shoe. smaller than a grain of sugar…

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23436226-details/Briton+jailed+in+Dubai+after+officials+find+cannabis+weighing+less+than+a+grain+of+sugar+under+his+shoe/article.do

]]> By: D.WattsRiot http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4486 D.WattsRiot Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:42:43 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4486 Grooverider has just been given four years in the slammer.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7253514.stm Grooverider has just been given four years in the slammer….

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7253514.stm

]]> By: Jrim http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4476 Jrim Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:41:57 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4476 I'd decided against visiting the States after they imposed the fingerprinting regime. Then they went and did the same thing in Japan, the country I've been living in for the last five years. Even permanent residents have to supply mugshots and give their prints - and not just once, but every time they enter the country. I was livid until I discovered what the UK, where I hail from, is doing to everyone who applies for a visa. Now I worry more that this type of thing will become totally standard, to the extent that, a decade down the line, all of the fuss people are making now seems strangely quaint. I’d decided against visiting the States after they imposed the fingerprinting regime. Then they went and did the same thing in Japan, the country I’ve been living in for the last five years. Even permanent residents have to supply mugshots and give their prints - and not just once, but every time they enter the country. I was livid until I discovered what the UK, where I hail from, is doing to everyone who applies for a visa. Now I worry more that this type of thing will become totally standard, to the extent that, a decade down the line, all of the fuss people are making now seems strangely quaint.

]]> By: jace http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4472 jace Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:43:20 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4472 i had no idea about Grooverider... scary. i had no idea about Grooverider… scary.

]]> By: D.WattsRiot http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4468 D.WattsRiot Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:55:46 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4468 Drum and Bass DJ Grooverider is still in a Dubai prison awaiting trial because he went there to spin and they found a bit of spliff in his bag. Be very damn careful if yer heading out that way. As for the proposals re. travelling to the US, pfft! it´s up to y´all over there, and governments around the world to put pressure on the US gov´t and say bollocks to your proposals, enough is enough. I have a Cuban stamp in my passport so i am not allowed in the US....how juvenile is that? Maybe with peak oil hitting soon, it won´t be a problem at all, we won´t be going anywhere, period. Drum and Bass DJ Grooverider is still in a Dubai prison awaiting trial because he went there to spin and they found a bit of spliff in his bag. Be very damn careful if yer heading out that way.

As for the proposals re. travelling to the US, pfft! it´s up to y´all over there, and governments around the world to put pressure on the US gov´t and say bollocks to your proposals, enough is enough. I have a Cuban stamp in my passport so i am not allowed in the US….how juvenile is that?
Maybe with peak oil hitting soon, it won´t be a problem at all, we won´t be going anywhere, period.

]]> By: Brian/djbsca http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4464 Brian/djbsca Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:30:42 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4464 Re: the tightening of travel. I wonder if a golden age of unfettered travel has now passed us (residents of the U.S.) by, and if it's time to say bye bye to the relatively low cost of plane tickets and low political restrictions that made jetting around the country and globe so easy. Now the costs of air travel are ticking back up (charges to change seats, a certain airline now charging non-frequent fliers to check a 2nd bag, etc) and border barriers are expanding (fingerprinting, photos, passport required to reenter the country). And as you mentioned it's not just the gabachos that are feeling this. All in all, it doesn't bode well for the future as it can be argued that the ease in transportation of the past several decades has been a key factor in the good times the US has enjoyed since WW2. Re: the tightening of travel. I wonder if a golden age of unfettered travel has now passed us (residents of the U.S.) by, and if it’s time to say bye bye to the relatively low cost of plane tickets and low political restrictions that made jetting around the country and globe so easy. Now the costs of air travel are ticking back up (charges to change seats, a certain airline now charging non-frequent fliers to check a 2nd bag, etc) and border barriers are expanding (fingerprinting, photos, passport required to reenter the country). And as you mentioned it’s not just the gabachos that are feeling this. All in all, it doesn’t bode well for the future as it can be argued that the ease in transportation of the past several decades has been a key factor in the good times the US has enjoyed since WW2.

]]> By: dj n-ron http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4463 dj n-ron Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:04:38 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4463 go dj empirical, go o-hi-o, go globalization, we need new televisual rulers, go dutty artz go dj empirical, go o-hi-o, go globalization, we need new televisual rulers, go dutty artz

]]> By: Eco Interactive http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4462 Eco Interactive Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:33:08 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/travel-lockdown/#comment-4462 Wow ..... thanks for putting this out there. I thought that Bubai was supposed to be a fairly liberal place. Wow ….. thanks for putting this out there. I thought that Bubai was supposed to be a fairly liberal place.

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