What NOT to say in an already paranoid country.
Yeah, stupid girl for sure, that prank rates up there with:
The more I think about Saturday, the more I’m not looking forward to being fingerprinted, photographed, iris-scanned, weighed, poked, prodded, stripped naked, denied access to sanitation, handcuffed if I so much as raise my voice to complain, and generally humiliated because of the American government’s Patriot Act, and I do not anticipate that I will be comforting myself with the thought that, hey, it’s okay because I’m doing my bit to ensure the security of the American people… Though I wonder how my American readers would feel if it was the other way around and all that happened to them at Heathrow because, conceivably, one of your fellow American passengers might be a bomber.
Somehow I don’t think they’d be terribly happy with it.
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8 responses to “Travel Tips”
as an american that has traveled to ben gurion as well as heathrow, i can say i had no problem being subjected to a lengthy questioning session, verification of my accomodations, continued questioning to see whether i changed my story, prolonged inspection of my baggage, and all the rest in israel.
i’m fairly sure the patriot act won’t be used to tap your phones or access your library records if you come to the u.s. the same tools the fbi had to investigate organized crime are now available to fight organized terror. unless you’re affiliated with one, i don’t think anyone need fear the patriot act. i don’t.
It’s good to see that ostriches still don’t bother signing their statements.
Oops. I’m a gobshite.
The first stage is always admiting it
hehe
Damn you for having names on top when I’m used to them on the bottom ;-)
lol
patriot act? i dunno. to me, seems a lil like mccarthyism.
Hey fella…..YOU’RE the one who wants to visit the ol US of A…..when in Rome and all that shit
Plenty of Americans aren’t that happy with the fact that you have to go through with it here, either. It’s an appalling step, one of many that I hope gets rolled back in the next few years, slim as that hope may be.