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Yeah, and I'm pissed at those too.

There's 2 forms I have to fill out, the visa waiver form and the customs declaration.

The customs declaration is a complete waste of time. Can't they just filter people into green and red channels like everywhere else in the world? No waste of my time, no waste of paper.

The visa waiver form is slightly less lame. OK, they have immigration controls, fair enough. Just don't ask me the same damn information several times! Don't ask me if I was a member of the Nazi party between 1936 and 1945! If they have to know, why don't they ask the people who are old enough to have been alive back then?

What's the point in asking people if they are members of a terrorist organisation? They're going to lie about it anyway and if they're caught it's not going to make a huge difference, they're off to Gitmo anyway.

I wish the US security apparatus would just use their fscking brains and devise policies that made sense. Better attitude from the security staff would be nice too. Every cop, TSA agent, CBP agent and rent-a-cop I've met in the US seems to think that to be professional you must be stern and utterly humorless. The security folks in London Heathrow have much more reason to be suspicious of me (I'm Irish) but they treat me with a friendliness and respect that I've never seen in the US.

From all of my travels, the US security people are the dumbest, least efficient and least friendly of all. It's time they realised they're the bottom of the pile and tried to dig up.