A Revolution is the Solution
You did a bit once... terrorist - not a terrorist, maybe a year ago. You should have re-released that and you would have been ok. How about an encore?
"interogation booths" = INSTANT WIN
"This is supposed to encourage people to come back? "
Why would you want to come here? ^_^
Give a funny look and you'll get shipped to Gitmo. Herr Bush don't like funny looks.
Welcome to AMERCIA now fuck off and dont come back you terrorist scumbag,
A a british born Lebanese friend of mine was trapped in a back room at JFK Airport subjected to interragation and abuse by these paranoid Homland security guys,
the Bunch of fuckwits even started talking about deporting her Back to Lenbanon desite the fact she has never lived there and is a UK passport holder..
"the Bunch of fuckwits even started talking about deporting her Back to Lenbanon desite the fact she has never lived there and is a UK passport holder.."
Ouch.
"Now sir...about your pants".
Were they combat pants?
When I saw the line "Now sir...about your pants", I have to say I felt let down by the lack of blatant dirty jokes and innuendo I have come to expect...
Shame on you Mr Boyd!
Re Kalei eyes comment what she didnt say was her friend was kept in that back room at JFK for a total of 7 hours..
No offence intended to anyone who works in immigration or airport security, but...
My grandad has dementia. Sometimes we find ourselves trying to persuade him that white is white - that his home is his home, the clothes he's worn every day for the last decade are his clothes, that he can't walk 12 miles in 20 minutes, etc etc etc.
These tales of encounters with immigration security personnel remind me enormously of talking to my grandad. Too many people at a wrong angle to reality. I'm so glad I don't travel!
I've been harassed just about every time I fly domestic. Yes, I'm American and no I am not a minority.
One time I was going through the gate coming back from a 30+ hour job setting up some new servers, I was harassed for over an hour. It must of been my bloodshot eyes that made them suspicious and all the electronics in my carry on bags.
Well brian carrying anything electronic is instantly going to put them on their guard mostly because they dont understand them at all...
A US citizen was once asked,"If you hate this country so much why don't you live somewhere else?" to which he replied, "Because I don't want to be a victim of our foreign policy."
My apologies to all those that have to put up with our stupidity. I often can't stand myself, there's something in the water.
PG the Man with Highly suspicous Pants Read the book See the movie 
I return from holiday and find this :D
Now regarding his pants ........ let's all be thankful it wasn't the dodgy raincoat ..... but that's a story for another day isn't in Teabag? 
Did they also give you a "physical exam"?-you know the one that is done in a private room!
It seems US customs and Homeland Security are getting lessons from the Gestapo! Trust me-if a terrorist really wants to do damage to american interests I don't think there is much these buffons can do to stop it short of concentration camps and Israeli security procedures which are flawed anyway.
My best advice to Americans is GET OVER IT ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, Nikos. We're trying to get over it. Now if we could please just have a few elections that actually meet international standards?
Allow me to point out, though, as a native speaker of American English, that the inquiries about "pants" were about trousers, that being the usual term for them in our language. They really weren't expressing a pervy interest in your tighty-whities (or whatever).
As for the food, bringing food into an agricultural country (really) is really a very big no-no. I had my all too Canadian lunch confiscated before being allowed to reach the gate on a return trip from Montreal. Of course, I could have bought a replacement lunch from the McD's (yeuuch!) inside the safe zone.
Gestapo ? GESTAPO ?!?
There's plenty of bureaucratic b.s. to go around, I agree, but the US customs is much nicer than a good dozen countries I could name.
Allusions to brutal regimes of WW II is just whining that should be gotten over.
Understand, I sympathize with the sometimes-foolish procedures that seem pointless, but any comparisons to Nazi Germany make we want to vomit. Visit Auschwitz, listen to the whispers there, and I promise you will never again tolerate some nincompoop comparison.
"Allow me to point out, though, as a native speaker of American English, that the inquiries about "pants" were about trousers, that being the usual term for them in our language. They really weren't expressing a pervy interest in your tighty-whities (or whatever)."
Weird - there was in fact another blog entry that went into great detail about interest in my so-called "tighty whities", because I had a further exchange at Manchester airport about that exact topic but it seems like it never published. Gotta love Blogger.com...
Ok this is scary and all, but, do you have any food with you Mr Boyd?
It is so easy!
It's like in real life.
If somebody does not want you, don't go there!!!
It's like dating with a girl that doesn't want you. Stop dating her!
I wouldn't go to the states even when they payed me for.
It might be interesting to see if every visitor from foreign countries would do so.
Specially Tourists.
So in my opinion the only mistake you made exept wearing pants was to go there in the first place.
Simple as that!
gg
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