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- kazamx, on 01/25/2008, -25/+217Honestly Americans are nuts.
Its just too risky going to the US in the current climate. Almost everyday we are hearing new stories about how they treat tourists. If they hate us all so much then I just think we shouldn't go.
I hear their economy is in great shape, I am sure they don't even need the billions and billions of dollars we spend their every year. - WordsnCollision, on 01/25/2008, -7/+166Shackles?? What century is this?
- crashbang, on 01/25/2008, -6/+161"Iceland complains to US about treatment of tourist in NY"
To which President Bush was heard to reply: "There's a land made of ICE???" - Lapdog1123, on 01/25/2008, -6/+115I am an American. What you have to understand is that our Government used the 9/11 attacks (as much as I hate to say it) against us. They used the insecurity we were experiencing to increase there power. In doing so new policies, laws, and restrictions were put into place. The majority of the people in the US are sick of all the decisions being maid by our government. We are trying to fight back and get this ***** fixed, but the government likes to think we are all a bunch or morons and don't know whats good for us. So please don't think we are all a bunch of militant *****.
- inactive, on 01/25/2008, -3/+104America has scared itself stupid.
- zappa717, on 01/25/2008, -1/+94They are mad about the cuffs? What about the two days without a phone call!?! Crazy.
- Winston84, on 01/25/2008, -2/+89The STASI strikes another lethal blow against Icelandic terrorism ..
- ghm101, on 01/25/2008, -2/+85I don't think it is all Americans that are nuts, the population at large is as welcoming to tourists as they always have been, it is just the jobs worth, power mad, idiot, petty bureaucrats at the airports who seem to have no tact, judgment, discernment or common sense.
When they see an opportunity to create misery through the thoughtless execution to their authority, it appeals to them. and this is the result.
I have been choosing to visit other countries on my holidays for years now.
I would love to know what answer the ambassador finally gets - khail250, on 01/25/2008, -3/+79thats what they get for hating our freedoms!
/sarcasm - blademanx, on 01/25/2008, -1/+69Y'know, of all the countries out there, Iceland is probably just about the last one I can see trying to bomb the US. Along with Switzerland, the Vatican, and Sealand.
- Groovemaster, on 01/25/2008, -22/+86America is the spoiled toddler of the world.
- smacksaw, on 01/25/2008, -4/+62Same thing happened to me in Canada last year. In the pokey for 3 days, no contact to my embassy, no contact to my lawyer, my Charter rights were repeatedly violated and at the end of it all they threatened not to release me unless I waived my PRAA (which canceled my immigration) and made me have to leave Canada and restart immigrating all over again. And they even violated their own law because people with a valid inland sponsorship can't be kicked out, but they did it anyway.
It's ridiculous. I feel for this woman. No one is accountable in these things. I had our MP trying to get the immigration minister to intervene, nothing. The guy who coerced me into signing away my rights didn't get in trouble.
Canadians are just as nuts as the US. Think about the guy they sent to Syria.
I was in Canada for an inland sponsorship that requires me TO BE IN CANADA AND NOT LEAVE and they deport me for overstaying my visa, even though the law says they can't do that because I have to BE THERE!. The best part is that the supervisor said "Well, we're part of the justice ministry. That law was written by the immigration ministry. We don't have to follow their laws."
We Americans don't have the monopoly on violating peoples' rights. Making someone sign legal documents after keeping them up for 3 days is pretty 3rd world. - CrumpetUp, on 01/25/2008, -3/+61Welcome to America Baby!
- BillS, on 01/25/2008, -5/+59As far as I can see she was treated like most all americans, like an enemy of the U.S. Government. Have you recently spoke with a local law enforcement officer? Yesterday I reported a crime and the Sheriff that showed up treated me with incredible disdain. He would not even take a copy of the State law I'd printed that described the crime, and the penalties if convicted. (The crime was dumping construction waste).
I really don't have much respect for, or trust in, law enforcement officers anymore, but I still have more than they show me and my neighbors. - HunkOfLove, on 01/25/2008, -1/+43Update: The Icelandic Foreign Minister asked the US for an apology.
You can read more here: http://eggmann.blog.is/blog/eggmann/entry/389611/ - pintomp3, on 01/25/2008, -5/+46the 9/11th
- thejackamo, on 01/25/2008, -1/+41Welcome to America, where we just really don't give a ***** about anybody (even our own citizens) anymore!
- ultralights, on 01/25/2008, -8/+47Yay for the USSA... united stalinist states of america.
digg me down, you know you want to. - Nogger, on 01/25/2008, -1/+36Here is in detail what happened, in her own words:
Google Cache version http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:k-B6QKPeq9cJ: ...
Original sourece http://eggmann.blog.is/blog/eggmann/
What a great treatment she received there. Welcome to the U.S. - Albionshores, on 01/25/2008, -4/+38Its the New American Century!
- acrodev, on 01/25/2008, -5/+37Hey, there are people who pay good money for this kind of treatment.
- bxblox, on 01/25/2008, -1/+33apology from this country? good luck with that
- jalaram, on 01/25/2008, -0/+32From the blog:
"2. NEWS 19th December 2007:
"According to news today here in Iceland the Foreign Ministry received a letter from the DHS, where they regret the treatment Erla got, admit it was out of proportion, and that they will review their processes in the light of this incident. We can also thank, Mrs. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, FM of Iceland, and the U.S. Ambassador in Iceland, Mrs.Carol van Voorst, who is a great representative for her nation. Hopefully these three women have started something, that will improvethe situation for all of us...
It was also mentioned in the news, that several American laywers have contacted Erla encouraging her and offered their help to sue the US government..." " - zcreem, on 01/25/2008, -2/+33All that was missing from this friendly greeting was a few thousand volts from their taser.
I know ***** happens like this in other countries but America needs to try harder with its image overseas. - blackmesa, on 01/25/2008, -3/+30I remember my first visit to the USA. I got off my plane and headed through the usual tube-structure into the terminal. The first thing you see as you enter the US from overseas? A giant portrait of George W Bush and another next to it of Dick Cheney- looking straight down onto you as you all shuffle silently towards the passport control booths (where you are subsequently photographed and fingerprinted by a person wearing a pressed black uniform and armed with a pistol and a chestful of badges).
It was like entering a time-machine and coming out in one of those Soviet dictatorships that hung pictures of Lenin and/or Stalin all over the place. - MacSuxWindozSux, on 01/25/2008, -3/+28Last year the USA deported a Canadian to Syria, where he was tortured.
Bush refused to apologize. The FBI however did apologize. - JoelBakan01, on 01/25/2008, -1/+25I agree. Americans are fine it's their government that has gone nuts.
- makkaveli19, on 01/25/2008, -1/+25hah, i'm a CANADIAN citezen. i traveled to the states for a family vacation. i was told that i have to go to another room. i had to give them info on where i'm from, what school i go to, what do my parents do, EXACTLY where i'm traveling, and my shoe size(wft?) i got a stamp in my pass which meant i was entering the country, i was suposed to get one on the way back. however the customs office was closed when i was on my last stop in the states. and i would have had to spend $2000 and spend 18 hours in transit just to get my passport stamped. i didn't do it and i don't think i'll be welcomed back in the states anymore. i've never felt so belittled in my life.
P.S this is the comment the lady at the customs office told me:"i'm sorry but you have to catch another flight out, i know that you will miss new years eve but there is nothing else we can do. this program wasn't created for anyones convenience" i guess it was created for peoples inconvenience then. - wil2200, on 01/25/2008, -2/+25the time of the US is over - terrorists didn't do it, immigration didn't do it, foreigners didn't do it, clean energy didn't do it - it was done by their own
i want to leave more than anything else and i am one broke ass ***** because it doesn't matter how much you can contribute (AS, BSEE, MSEE), because it is never enough
i wish we were at the stage where we can start our own planet, whoever wants to stay here and fight and kill each other, stay, the rest of us will take our leave - Nogger, on 01/25/2008, -2/+24Ha! That's what they get for pulling out their troop (troop, not troops) from Iraq!
- beachteen, on 01/25/2008, -0/+22"On Monday, Lillendahl claimed, her hands and feet were chained and she was moved to a prison in New Jersey,"
i would demand an apology just for that - sicamore, on 01/25/2008, -1/+23The thing is, that it doesn't happen in other countries nearly as much as it happens in the states. As a 'foreigner' I have travelled to over 90 countries in my lifetime and have always been treated with respect and kindness (apart from one incident in russia near the black sea) in comparison to the fear and total lack of respect encountered at border stations in the US. Americans need to stop comparing their freedoms to third world dictatorships and start comparing them to first world democracies as yard sticks. It's not 1776 anymore.
- blademanx, on 01/25/2008, -6/+27The 13th, apparently.
- jer2eydevil88, on 01/25/2008, -3/+22*****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats all I feel whenever I think about how far down the rabbit hole the country has gone in 8 short years.... Still I just keep thinking... its almost over... someone with a solid head will be back running the country... Then Huckabee won a ***** primary... god if he got elected for two terms... we would all be begging Mexico to let us in...
- vornan19, on 01/25/2008, -10/+29I'm sorry you're getting dugg down for such an insightful comment.
- ljkelley, on 01/25/2008, -3/+20Norway is no better... strip searched my Norwegian sister at immigration. They also decided that me earning about $1000 less than I should a year disqualified me from bring my American BF over...
The whole world needs to wake up and get out of the middle ages... - neocognitism, on 01/25/2008, -1/+16I bet both of you and your sister are hot, right? Those sorts of things only happen to the attractive ones.
- NnyCW, on 01/25/2008, -0/+14But it's got electrolytes...
- jmk4422, on 01/25/2008, -1/+14As an American, I resent that. We're the home of the brave, remember? We're so brave that we were willing to hand over practically all of our freedoms to prevent another 9/11. Uhm... I mean, we're so brave that we... uh... well, we're brave enough that we can quote this from our history: "Live free or die!"
As for the present... not so much. In the bravery department, that is. Sigh. - tvanr, on 01/25/2008, -2/+15Rudy Giuliani?
- TheGuruStud, on 01/25/2008, -3/+16gay sound errors?
- tgc1, on 01/25/2008, -1/+14I think it's gone retarded. We're about almost 2 terms past stupid.
- TxAggie08, on 01/25/2008, -1/+14Well remember most officers these days have a college deg...oh no they don't. Well they at least have a pulse and a minimal psycological screening. When they are on the streets they have nearly complete authority to do whatever they want. You can't do anything but take them to court after the fact. Its getting ridiculous. You can go ahead and quote the law to them, while they find a reason to beat they ***** out of you. Lol, I think I'll just stay in school forever. The campus cops don't give a ***** and for some reason keep calling me bro anytime I see them. LOL
- doglipp, on 01/25/2008, -1/+14if i have to hang my head any lower i am going to have to learn a new language...
- ferrofluid, on 01/25/2008, -0/+13do some research on what shackles are before posting, people know the difference between plain handcuffs and the OTT shackle system.
Shackling somebody is reducing them to absolute dependence, and forcing abject submission to the guards.
Its a way of making the person KNOW they are a prisoner and helpless. - inactive, on 01/25/2008, -1/+13She is lucky they didn't Tase her to death.
If they applied the same level of justice here in Cali, half the state would be in shackles.
But Mexico and it's wayward population, even while being of one of the most corrupt banana republics on earth poses no threat to US security or it's citizens economic well being in any manner.
Nope, no insane double standards here...... - ChaosMotor, on 01/25/2008, -1/+13I thought it was spelled 9iul1an1?
- kuzotz, on 01/25/2008, -0/+12Iceland has a higher standard of living than America does.
XD - Albionshores, on 01/25/2008, -6/+18To wake up in a city never sleeps?
To be king of the hill?
To be top of the heap?
'A' number 1? - orlyfactor, on 01/25/2008, -1/+12Less than half of us did, that's who.
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