Well, Blackit, it proved that they weren't Chris Langham's friends. A true friend is someone who accepts you for what you are and and not for what they think you ought to be and also someone who will stick by you through thick and thin, no matter what happens. Such people are very rare.

Emma Bee wrote:
Since they introduced scanning and fingerprinting for all visitors, my family have boycotted holidays in the USA. If they want our money they must show us some respect.

From being 3/4 times a year visitor (since around 1978) haven't been now since 2001 - with no plans ever to return.

I lost not one single friend during the fiasco at the start of this decade - If anything, I've gained many new ones.

Oddly enough I think, to some extent, civilisation was created to stamp out ignorance and hysteria. Instead, it seems to have encouraged it. When rules and standards become so twisted and warped then civilisation has to collapse.

The Saxons had the balance of justice about right.
No evidence = no crime, and once someone had been punished it was an offence to attempt to punish them further.

really ?..the Saxons did that ?. We have regressed then.

I can see the tourist market to the USA drying up by over 50% if they are now demanding ETHNIC PROFILING - not allowing passengers to go to the toilet - having invasive full body scans ( the radiation has to be dangerous ) - as well as supposedly nasty staff in most international terminals in the USA.

Who would want to pay thousands of pounds to go on holiday to be treated like a criminal.

If you said to someone - where do you go to get :

1. Body scanned or even cavity searched and strip searched
2. Ethnically profiled
3. made to wait for hours to leave
4. abused etc

They would be thinking of a trip to a barbaric prison not a package holiday to the USA.

I certainly will NEVER go the USA now. Had always wanted to go - have family there - but I cant face body scans - searches - and possible "CIA" approved terrorists on the plane ( Remember they let the terrorists onto the plane without checks or even a passport - Detroit case has proved this )

The SECURITY is only for innocent people - when was the last time you heard that it had caught a terrorist ? Even on 9.11 the terrorists were not checked and carried onto the plane metal objects and sharp knives used to take control of the planes.

The USA is now an "Evil Empire" ruled by greed and having to protect itself against attack with ever increasing security because of its own evil actions in foreign countries.

Generally speaking you dont get attacked unless you have attacked first. The USA should learn that they cant go around INVADING countries and expect to get away with it.