IS THIS THE WORLD WE CREATED?

So my wife and I we are planning another visit to Switzerland.
To avoid last year’s experience when we’ve been stuck there without being allowed to leave the country since no embassy or consulate would give us a visa to go to Italy even for a capuccino or France to visit my brother we thought about asking for a “preventive” visa.

What is wrong with that?
Countries they are launching “preventive wars” why a normal, quiet middle aged couple can not ask for a “preventive visa”?

Impossible it is. Without presenting flight reservations, hotel bookings nobody would grant us a visa, this means that even if we would like to spend a weekend in Italy (for example) we could not.

This left me wondering… is this the world we have created? Is this the world of freedom all politicians are blabbing about?
Surely not, if you ask my very humble opinion.

It looks more and more like those nightmarish Sci-Fi movies where to build a perfect world, freedom was neglected, a thing of the past.
It is increasingly looking like that Spielberg movie “Minority Report”, where the world was dominated by some “prevention police”, where the government to prevent crime abolished freedom.
Is this the world we want?
Not me.

Someone may object that all this is for our own safety, part of the post 9/11 scenario.
Nah, try to speak about safety and security to the kids in Baghdad, though!

Or maybe isn’t that the rich European countries are so much afraid about illegal immigration, they are afraid about the flow of people who come from the III, IV, V, VI world in search of job, fortune and money?
Shouldn’t they instead have a look at how resources are NOT shared in the world, at how wealth is only a privilege for the few chosen ones instead of being shared among everyone?
Too much for a small number of people, nothing for the multitudes!

In any case I sincerely doubt that terrorists and dangerous criminals when they travel they go through embassies’ channels. Surely they have their own “travel agents” and do not need to bother asking for a visa.
Is my wife a potential threat to European countries?
Maybe she leads a double life I am not aware of!
But I can assure she will never look for a job in Europe, of this I am sure!

And about dangerous terrorists, I know for sure that one is always traveling in first class, on the “Air Force One”!

Planet Earth, March 31st , 2549

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