Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As coincidence would have it, this landed up in my mailbox today: http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2010/01/americas_snarling_doormen?Fsrc=glvrnwl The full column: http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15270716 Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > I have some very good friends, and two cousins in the US, I have visited > often and we are going to DC in April to celebrate my 60th birthday by > visiting friends and family. I hope everything will be plain sailing. > These security guys are doing a job not everybody wants and they are > probably neither well paid nor well educated. There is a lot of ignorance. > I must say, if I had not got the tickets already I would reconsider the > trip. > I would say that of all the countries I have visited the US officials are > the least knowledgeable and most insular. There is a clear impression that > they think you are being granted a great privilege being allowed access to > their country. Probably extreme nationalism taught in school :-) > Frank > > On 19 Jan, 2010, at 02:58, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > >> I have stopped going to the USA - my last trip was in 2002, and >> barring emergencies, or traveling to Galapagos which I plan to do >> sometime, that will be my last. Could not stand the paranoid and >> intrusive visa and security authorities, and the shoddy and demeaning >> treatment meted out to my wife and myself. No reason we have to put up >> with that. You cannot change the system, you can only vote with your >> feet. >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at >> gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hmm, I think that all of our business and leisure travel dollars will be >>> redirected to Europe and Asia over USA and Canada for the foreseeable >>> future. We see some of the restrictions implemented as security ?to be >>> arbitrary, overly intrusive, unpleasant and unreasonable while not >>> necessarily being effective. When was the last time an Aussie carried >>> anything more dangerous than Vegemite into LAX? >>> Just my apply for permission in advance, three hours prior to departure >>> queued, double security procedured, carry on xrayed and pulled apart, >>> suitcases unlocked to save the thieves some inconvenience, liquid >>> restricted, questioned, through clothing body scanned, metal detected, >>> patted down, jet lagged two cents worth. >>> >>> Geoff >>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >>> >>> >>> 2010/1/19 philippe.amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> >>> >>>> Superb photos (with the latest gear). >>>> >>>> And it is now settled, I'll be flying SNCF this year again. >>>> >>>> Thanks for the link Steve >>>> Amiti?s >>>> Philippe >>>> >>>> >>>> Le 18 janv. 10 ? 21:19, Steve Barbour a ?crit : >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://luminous-landscape.com/essays/flying-jan-10.shtml >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >