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Post by vnchr »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #17
corin_ wrote: post #4

Have no more fear, your country is safe from all terrorists who tweet about their plans. Truthfully, I wouldn't have expected this from America, they're the kind of jokes I could imagine myself making on Twitter, but will be careful not to before future trips there.. This is pretty much what I think of when going to China, and what makes me specially careful not to say anything the Chinese could take as a threat. Heh…

These stories we keep seeing do the US no good at all. From the outside the you look don't look very attractive to visit or do business with.

Thank you for your honesty. As an American, this issue deeply concerns me.

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Post by danh »

Joeboy wrote: post #54
mahmud wrote: post #14

Shenanigans. 1) Where did they get the pictured Homeland Security report if HS "declined to comment"? If accurate, it looks like the sort of communication that an agency that refused to comment on an story would not be too quick to divulge. There is no mention of a FOI application, which I'm not even sure two foreigners are entitled to. 2) The two posing clowns are just that kind you would expect to be the butt of jo…

> Where did they get the pictured Homeland Security report if HS "declined to comment"? The Daily Mail article captions it as "Paperwork handed to Mr Van Bryan". May be shenanigans, but I don't see any particular reason to think so aside from the fact it's reported by the Sun/Mail.

That is quite a strong reason, though.

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Post by hobbes »

chrisacky wrote: post #24

Just for anyone unfamiliar with thesun news paper. They are the paper that goes out with the sole intention of polluting a story with utter crap just to fuel drama and sell more papers. They are the by far the worst paper owned by the Murdoch empire and is an embarrassment to the whole of the UK. Anything written by the Sun can be discarded as total balls.

Your comment has the same balance and factual content as an editorial in the Sun.

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Post by icebraining »

rsynnott wrote: post #48
nextparadigms wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

US is done as the "land of the free". It's still very hard for many people to believe it, but it's true. I mean it's 47th place in the world for freedom of press now - 47th! That's far from the beacon of freedom US used to be. Whenever I see the heavily armed and militarized police in US and how they react to protesters, it's like I'm watching news about Russia or something.

When _was_ it the land of the free? The period between giving black people the vote and the PATRIOT act? Even then, it was hardly number one.

That period includes the internment of 110000 Japanese Americans in War Relocation Camps without any kind of due process. Land of the free, unless your parents were born in the wrong country.

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Post by rooshdi »

jgrahamc wrote: post #60
corin_ wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only The Sun could make an article in the Daily Mail appear good by comparison. Amazing quote from the girl in this piece though: "We just wanted to have a good time on holiday. That was all Leigh meant in his tweet. He would not hurt anyone. He is gay.' Wondering if I can use that as evidence that I wouldn't hurt anything if I ever have any problems with the TSA..

Reading Ms. Banting's Twitter stream makes me wonder if they weren't really barred from entry on the grounds of being total numbskulls.

Well, by those grounds, they might as well stay consistent and kick out some of our politicians too while they're at it!

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Post by panacea »

drats wrote: post #26

Has anyone done a study of how much this is damaging the tourism industry in the USA? I have 1001 places I want to go, but all those in the USA shifted down a lot lower on the list after they started a lot of the airport security/TSA measures. Airport security stuff annoys me to no end in other places too because half of them, or more than half, seem to literally be standing around doing nothing and the other half do…

This is just a small data-point, but I was seriously worried about visiting the US based on what I'd heard about customs and immigration there. And this is from a white 'middle-class' male living in London with no beard.

I ended up visiting anyway (I really wanted to research Philly Cheesesteaks, Maine Lobster and see the colours of the New England Autumn/Fall), but I definitely thought long and hard about it and was apprehensive.

I also made sure my medical travel insurance was solid.

Now, maybe I live in a paranoid white-male bubble that reads about this stuff, and that informed my apprehension, but I personally think it would turn off many, many people from visiting.

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Post by burgerbrain »

[deleted] wrote: post #30
gitarr wrote: post #10

I don't know what else to say then people like those border agents and the incredible stupidity they seem to posses are a bigger danger to humanity than anyone else could ever be. It's so ridiculous that it's not even funny anymore and I for one will not conduct business with, nor visit the US before things change for the better there. They have to treat their own people better as well as visitors, not only the rich.…

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If you have trouble imagining possible answers to that question, then only your unfamiliarity with the world is at play, not a lack of responses.

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Post by khuey »

icebraining wrote: post #65
rsynnott wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When _was_ it the land of the free? The period between giving black people the vote and the PATRIOT act? Even then, it was hardly number one.

That period includes the internment of 110000 Japanese Americans in War Relocation Camps without any kind of due process. Land of the free, unless your parents were born in the wrong country.

Well, that depends on whether he meant when we gave black people the right to vote on paper (after the Civil War) or when black people effectively got the right to vote (1965). I assumed he meant the latter ;-)
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