US customs being paranoid again

[karohemd]

Grendel had to cancel his US tour

Bastards. I better be careful what CDs I take or put on my mp3 player next time I go to the US...

It's like Henry Rollins' anecdote about when he got an email from Homeland Security after the guy who sat nect to him took objection to the book HR was reading (Jyhad, by a Wall Street journalist) and reported him...

Comments

[poetman.livejournal.com]

I thought the Henry Rollins thing was in Australia, and was related to their security agency? Nice to know we don't have the only dickweed government in the world....

I think stuff like this is more of a symptom of government bureaucrats wanting to assert their authority than it is about them being paranoid. Little people feeling good about themselves by using big government powers to beat up other people.

I could be cynical. I have always detested immigration officials, even before 9/11. I’m sure that colors my opinion of them. I had some run in's with them myself when I was living in Europe. Remind me to tell you the story one day of the time they escorted me into a small room and put on the white rubber gloves....

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

You're right, it was Australia.

*nods*

[lsur.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest downloads of arabic folksongs for your mp3 player but maybe not....

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Or a copy of the Qu'ran. ;o)

[sogoth.livejournal.com]

Damn, that's mean of them!

Last time I went to the US I got stopped and my case & bags searched and swabbed for explosives.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

That's almost normal practice nowadays.

[sogoth.livejournal.com]

I almost missed my connecting flight because of it though :\