Rattle wrote:
] ] As already reported on quite a few blogs, Jeremy was
] ] detained and interrogated by US Immigration when he
] ] arrived in New York last week for a meeting with
] ] McGraw-Hill to discuss a great business opportunity for
] ] Jeremy in the area of blogging. It appears that the
] ] immigration people simply did not believe that Jeremy
] ] could make a living as a blogger. And they gave him the
] ] third degree - including an humiliating strip search - as
] ] a result for some hours. And banned him from entering the
] ] US.
]
] Protecting our borders does not involve creating an
] opportunity for people who have chips on their shoulders to
] harrass random travellers. We need a bill of rights for
] travellers.

Kind of makes you wonder if they single out bloggers and reporters to make the borders look tougher than they really are. Sort of a mean PR scheme.

terratogen wrote:
] Kind of makes you wonder if they single out bloggers and
] reporters to make the borders look tougher than they really
] are. Sort of a mean PR scheme.

I don't think that is such a far fetched idea. I can't remember the URL for it, but there is a blog out there that caters to TSA employees that links to discussions on blogs in regard to search issues. It claimed to be widely read.