As you may have heard, the rest of the world doen't have their biometric passports ready yet. So they
all have to get visas at $100.00 each. This includes 10s of thousand of Brits headed over here for skiing or Florida vacations.
BBC has a story this morning about a fish 'n chips shop owner heading home from New York City with his wife and 3 children.
James Harris was returning home from a family break in the US when he was separated from his wife and three children and taken off for an intense hour of questioning.
"The first question was a bit of a mindblower, he said 'Are you a member of any terrorist organisation?'.*
After that, there was a massive armed escort and, as a family, we were split up on the aeroplane - I think there was somebody watching me all the way back to Heathrow."
These gratuitously humiliating and inane security measures must be condemned by all of us.
*Famous line of questioning from the McCarthy Showtrial era: Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?