On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:35:20 -0700,
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
> (* = if you think that it's not a major and frightening hassle to visit the US
> these days, you clearly haven't traveled internationally for a while. As a
> US citizen, it took me nearly an hour of checks on the way back from Brazil.
> For actual foreigners, this is worse; one of the award recipients for the
> 2003 Oscars (a designer) was detained for 12 hours by the TSA. Here in San
> Francisco, we've noticed at 75% drop in international tourism.)
For a much worse case you can read about Maher Arar:
http://www.amnesty.ca/human_rights_issues/maher_arar_overview.php
