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the new JR Jansen · 07-08-2003, 07:24 AM

Didn't you know, the US is fighting a war on tourism

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OK, OK, pretty dumb. Anyway, on topic, it seems that the US has become a little paranoid since 9/11. I still see the lines of people, who where in the US with a visa from several 'arabic' countries, standing before the imigrations services just because they came from a certain country. The land of the free, sin't so free anymore, at least not to those who want to visit it.

A couple of weeks ago i heard a story from a Belgian women who was going over there on a buisness trip. She didn't have her new passport as of yet (to clarify, it wasn't expired. Nowadays you need a passport that can be read by computer, the only thing she didn't do was to ask for that to be aded to her passport because she didn't know). She got arrested and taken to a room and was subject to, what she called, 'very abusive and inhuman comments and actions'. No matter that she had been in the US numerous times before.

[ 07-08-2003, 07:29 AM: Message edited by: the new JR Jansen ]

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the new JR Jansen Drizzt Do'Urden Join Date: May 8, 2002 Location: chocolate land Age: 50 Posts: 696	Didn't you know, the US is fighting a war on tourism . OK, OK, pretty dumb. Anyway, on topic, it seems that the US has become a little paranoid since 9/11. I still see the lines of people, who where in the US with a visa from several 'arabic' countries, standing before the imigrations services just because they came from a certain country. The land of the free, sin't so free anymore, at least not to those who want to visit it. A couple of weeks ago i heard a story from a Belgian women who was going over there on a buisness trip. She didn't have her new passport as of yet (to clarify, it wasn't expired. Nowadays you need a passport that can be read by computer, the only thing she didn't do was to ask for that to be aded to her passport because she didn't know). She got arrested and taken to a room and was subject to, what she called, 'very abusive and inhuman comments and actions'. No matter that she had been in the US numerous times before. [ 07-08-2003, 07:29 AM: Message edited by: the new JR Jansen ] __________________ JR<br /><br /><br /><br />It\'s me. The guy with the cloak big enough for a fire giant and the long nose.<br />Owner of the most visited woodshed in Ironworks\' history.