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Last summer I had the renew my passport. In Canada on your new passport photo you're not allowed to smile, that's the rule. This is their way of fighting terrorism. This is how their going to catch the terrorist, you can't smile. That's the message they're sending you. If you're travelling, you better not be happy. I walk into one of those places that says we do passport photos, I say to the guy I need some passport photos the guy goes "No problem buddy, sit down". So I sit down, the guy goes: "You ready?" And I go Yeah, It's a picture, and I'm a happy guy and I smile, the guy goes, "Sir, sir... Your lips need to be touching." I go alright... "Sir, sir... You can't smile." That's the way they really think they're going to find the terrorist by making you not smile. You want to find the terrorists? Make everybody smile. And the people that don't want to smile? Question them. When have you been watching CNN, and they show you the people that they're looking for and they're happy? Never. So I wasn't allowed to smile. So now if it wasn't bad enough being a brown man going through the airports, now when I give them my passport, I look pissed off. They get my passport: "Ahh Mr. Peters, step this way please... We'll have a few words with ya." It's hard man cause the security in the airport, customs, immigration, they really need to learn the difference between a terrorist, and an Indian. We're not the same! We're not! We're not from the same part of the world, we don't speak the same language. We don't eat the same food. We don't even hate the same people. Terrorists hate Americans. Indians hate each other. A terrorist will blow-up an airport. Indians like to work at the airport. "That would be counter-productive."
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