American Customs are so F*CKED UP!

duggro

chopitdown wrote:

i can understand why people would be pissed off; esp if it happens routinely (hense the need for quick AND efficacious ways to screen people). My hmmm that's life attitude is prob born out of cynicism rather than anything. I wasn't trying to belittle the situation, but it's too bad we are forced to do these extensive checks and hold people up. I want to say there was a study put out a year or 2 ago that suggested the added security really didn't do that much overall...but i could just be making that up.

i'll let the haiku slide, as long as i can request one in the future.

cool man, i dont like arguin on forums....it really is pointless and my problem isnt with you, just certain circumstances.

i apologise
did not mean to be so rude
i let myself down

theres a haiku right there. a shit one, but a haiku nonetheless

duggro

audome25 wrote:

please do not bring common sense in here. its more fun to scream racism.

i could argue with you.......but i wont.

you believe what you want.....i'll believe what i want

i'll just breath deeply and relax

IWillLiveForeve

negationist wrote:

if the american public were to be told that certain people would be detained and questioned due to certain blanket descriptive criteria that they filled, it would be an outrage and deemed unconstitutional. However, it seems if it's for the foreigners, it's ok then. Just a bit surprising seeing as America was built on fairness and aequality for all. And for some strange reason, this description never seems to involve white europeans. I think these rules worsens further the whole them vs us mentality that many people feel and it just frightens the lay public and instills in them a bias towards people who look a certain way. I mean, if the american customs can discriminate, so can the general public don't you think.

Um, we did that to the Japanese population in WWII. In fact, we put them in 'concentration camps'. Not like Nazi camps, but we literally 'concentrated' in holding pens so they couldn't 'betray' us. Look, we had 9/11. It was perpetrated by people of a certain description. People of the same physical description match that of 3 of the 10 most wanted people. Sorry, but there is going to be suspicion. And in this thing, if you make a mistake and miss one, you could have 100-10,000s deaths. Does it suck? yes. Is it fair? probably not. Am I glad that they are being this vigilant or overboard? As long as lives are saved. Also, if you don't like it, the best part of this country, you are welcome to leave...no questions asked.

decides2dream

yes, customns are crazy nowadays. i was amazed with the ease/freedom i traveled between countries that were all part of the EU. as an american citizen i didn't have any issues leaving/returning home...but definitely a LOT more involved...and yes, my lipstick was consificated. crazy times. i do not envy the customs officers, they are just following orders/doing their jobs...but absolutely...it's out of hand what is going on....and absolutely, the profiling is insane.

LeilaMoonTurtle

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we r blind

Cosmo wrote:

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We used to be nice. Now, we are terrorized. We don't trust anyone any more. Can you blame us? Those people want to set off nuclear devices in our malls... or, at least, so we are being told.

audome25

duggro wrote:

i could argue with you.......but i wont.

you believe what you want.....i'll believe what i want

i'll just breath deeply and relax

not "believe what i want to beleive", recount what I see everyday.

audome25

IWillLiveForeve wrote:

Um, we did that to the Japanese population in WWII. In fact, we put them in 'concentration camps'. Not like Nazi camps, but we literally 'concentrated' in holding pens so they couldn't 'betray' us. Look, we had 9/11. It was perpetrated by people of a certain description. People of the same physical description match that of 3 of the 10 most wanted people. Sorry, but there is going to be suspicion. And in this thing, if you make a mistake and miss one, you could have 100-10,000s deaths. Does it suck? yes. Is it fair? probably not. Am I glad that they are being this vigilant or overboard? As long as lives are saved. Also, if you don't like it, the best part of this country, you are welcome to leave...no questions asked.

did it to the germans too. you fucking racists never mention that.

redrock

bootlegger10 wrote:

The US is still the leader in people of all ethnic backgrounds peacefully living together and being accepted. .

Yep.. because they do have a nice, proven track record on peaceful cohabitation between all races and ethnic backgrounds :rolleyes:

lukin2006

audome25 wrote:

did it to the germans too. you fucking racists never mention that.

We won't mention what the Germans and Japanese did in WW2.

Scubascott

I've got dual citizenship becase I was born in America to Australian parents, and moved back to Australia when I was little.

Last time I entered the states I just flashed my US passport and sailed straight through. I was even carrying DNA samples, which I tried to declare. They didn't give a shit. Just waved me straight through. For they cared I could have brought a whole esky full of anthrax into the country.

Interestingly, when crossing the border between Israel and Egypt, I got a much less friendly response from the border official when I showed him my US passport. I was just trying to avoid getting any Israeli stamps on my Australian one. All the arabs we met hate america. I can't imagine why. . . After seeing his reaction I stopped using my US passport the rest of the time I was in arab countries. I just showed my Australian one instead, which seems to get a positive response everywhere. The problem is that I now have Israeli border crossing stamps on both passports, so I'll have to "lose" my australian one and get it replaced if I ever want to go to somewhere like Lebanon or Syria.

Byrnzie

Cosmo wrote:

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I tend to cast a jaundiced eye upon my beloved America these days. We have become SOOOO FRIGHTENED of the darkies wanting to Anthrax our peace-loving ways and freedoms that we are willing to freely surrender our own liberties granted to us by our founding fathers in the name of 'Please, don't hurt us... scary dark people from someplace else'.
But, we have our great protector... President America. With his swift sword of Vengence he will protect us by slashing down the terrorist along with our bullshit Constitution... what's the big deal, anyway? It's just a piece of paper. And we will continue to protect our land of the free by sealing our 2,000 mile southern border with a 700 mile fence. That should do the trick.
So, scary dark people... be put on notice... we will continue to suspect you all of wrong doing until you can prove your innocence.
God Bless America.

I'm confused by your repeated use of the word 'we' in this post.

darkcrow

Scubascott wrote:

I've got dual citizenship becase I was born in America to Australian parents, and moved back to Australia when I was little.

Last time I entered the states I just flashed my US passport and sailed straight through. I was even carrying DNA samples, which I tried to declare. They didn't give a shit. Just waved me straight through. For they cared I could have brought a whole esky full of anthrax into the country.

Interestingly, when crossing the border between Israel and Egypt, I got a much less friendly response from the border official when I showed him my US passport. I was just trying to avoid getting any Israeli stamps on my Australian one. All the arabs we met hate america. I can't imagine why. . . After seeing his reaction I stopped using my US passport the rest of the time I was in arab countries. I just showed my Australian one instead, which seems to get a positive response everywhere. The problem is that I now have Israeli border crossing stamps on both passports, so I'll have to "lose" my australian one and get it replaced if I ever want to go to somewhere like Lebanon or Syria.

everyone loves aussies, never met anyone who hasn't. they are particularly fun to go out wieht for a drink after you bump into them at a youth hostel in berlin

Byrnzie

When any terrorist group begins adopting White Muslims then the U.S customs officials will be crapping themselves.

Riot_Rain

Byrnzie wrote:

When any terrorist group begins adopting White Muslims then the U.S customs officials will be crapping themselves.

That's what I was just thinking. I don't even think we're that far off this situation.

Scubascott

darkcrow wrote:

everyone loves aussies, never met anyone who hasn't. they are particularly fun to go out wieht for a drink after you bump into them at a youth hostel in berlin

Hey maybe you bumped into my mates that drank their way across Germany last year.

Yeah Aussie backpackers are great if I do say so myself. We tend to travel solo or in small groups, rather than as big noisy obnoxious mobs like most of the seppos I ran into overseas. Of course there are exceptions. There's nothing like running into a fellow australian after months of only hearing foreign accents.