People who have conversations with (or seek counsel from) their imaginary friends make me nervous.

Some of them certainly are nice people though.

woah, breasts ! I hope for his sake that they don't have the death penalty in that state. (rolls eyes)

To phasor3000, since *any* mid-eastern might be doing stuff that the US army don't like (such as not speaking English, or looking foreign), wouldn't it be simpler to just kill them all ?

Hello ? Did you somehow miss the meaning of suspected here ? (of course since they are just heathen sub humans from another continent it doesn't matter much). Zapped ? Sorry ? Was that thing equipped with a tazer while we weren't looking ?
Nah, they're suspected, might as well kill them. It's not as if they were americans.

I'm sure you're so happy to get a ticket when you're *suspected* of breaking the speed limit. Too bad your police isn't allowed to shoot yet in such cases.

However, you could have a brilliant career ahead of you in politics.

All the best.

It's interesting to see that Europeans are wondering what to do with Turkey's application to the union, yet we let Poland in. Something that an increasing number of people luckily seem to be fairly uncomfortable with.

As seen from the rest of Europe, Poland is even more alien than the US, with a twist of "we hate foreigners, and anything non christian, and jews and whoever isn't caucasian" added for taste. I'm not familiar enough with Poland to comment on the average people there, but the image projected by their government makes them appear to be on par with Pakistan or Saudi Arabia as far as openness goes.

Poland as it is now is quite scary seen up close.

This all made for some nice reading.

And some of my US friends wonder why I won't come and visit (being French)... I don't want to potentially subject myself to this on top of having some randomly anti-French (oooh, you didn't go to Iraq, ooh, you hate America !) bigot with an agenda have his fun with me (tip for people with a French passport, do not have a connecting flight in the US, there is a fair chance you will miss it thanks to the nice people working in the airport security).

I used to enjoy visiting the US in the past, its wackiness (as seen by a European) being part of the charm and for its great sceneries. I'm glad I did it before all of this mess. However that's now behind me for good most likely. When was a law last passed that *restricted* some established "security" power ? It's a fair bet that things will steadily get worse from here, to the indifference of the majority.

A poster above said in response to the usual "why don't you do anything about it" remarks that once you daily have armed people yelling at you to stand in line, you soon learn to comply. Which is of course most likely the purpose of all this circus. Of course it also means that you've now accepted to be sheep. You are no longer citizens. Maybe consumers in the best case ("I'm a paying consumer of the US, I have rights !", will that be the new revolt cry ?

I fear not, this will soon come to Europe full fledged, we'll have sheep on both sides of the ponds.
Then the children will be safe.