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I've only stepped briefly on to USA soil, and it wasn't an enjoyable experience.
Things I remember.
Rude thuggish and aggressive security staff.
Incompetent and rude immigration officials.
People so fat they had to be moved around an airport on electric trucks
Paranoia, fear and racism.
I won't be going back.
Not even as a transit passenger.
It's a shame. I used to have the same misty eyed romantic notion of what it must be like to live in the 'land of the free' as most of you Americans, based mainly on films like 'American Grafitti' and ' Car Wash'.
But since Sept 2001 I have watched from afar as your country slips into a kind of totalitarianism by stealth.
For all your bravado about how you saved the world from the Hun, valid or not, and your espousal of all things related to 'freedom', you seem to have handed over your own freedom pretty meekly, and not to an invading power, but to your own Administration. Where are your revolutionary leaders now? Isn't anyone going to fight back? Or are you just going to let your government do what bin Laden couldn't and have you living in fear for the rest of your lives?
What do I like about North America? Mexico and Canada.
The USA lost my admiration and respect just over 4 years ago.
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