I have to say I hate Heathrow and the Desi security folks there are rude and arrogant. Granted, I found some of the white people at King Cross to be a$$ holes as well. It must be a London thing.

Other than that no real problems. I was pulled over once when driving. When I asked why, the cop responded condescendingly whether I knew what tailgating meant as though I cannot speak English. But in all honesty I do have a bad habit and tendency to follow a little to closely behind other cars. I’ve been stopped other times driving but I’ve generally been at fault. A few times, I’ve even been let off with just a warning so overall my own personal interactions with cops in the US hasn’t been bad. I haven’t crossed the US/Canadian border much, except for a few trips with family years ago. We did cross once or twice over the past 8 years, and faced no problems. I haven’t crossed alone, so I can’t comment on that. Same goes with the US/Mexico border.

I don’t have problems profiling on particular characteristics or behavior, but race by itself just doesn’t strike me as effective. Looking back, I can’t complain about the LAX screening, because it was quick and they were polite. From the article linked the border agents sounded incredibly ignorant (and the questions asked were incredibly stupid and inane) but I guess they were set off by Pakistan stamps in the passport. That alone will likely do it nowadays.

You deal better with stressful situations than I would Anyway, was just sharing information – I definitely think people should make use of it in ways that make the most sense to them.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/09/wilson-calls-white-house-to-apologize/

(by the way, my deletion comment related to a previous post which has now been deleted, not ptr_vivek’s)

“Import / Export…don’t worry about it”….

There are alot of members of the Indian community that are involved in drug trafficking into Canada from places like Mexico.

Alot of them wear any successful drug trafic as a badge of honor. They will point to a brand new Lexus they bought and say “that’s one trip” meaning I bought this with the money I made from one trip from the USA into Canada with drugs.

That might be a tiny bit of hyperbole, but it’s unsettling when you’re just driving around in Southern Arizona, minding your own business, and the BP thinks you should be searched. Just Because.

I am aware that they can’t search my apt w/o warrent. However, I produced the ‘paperwork’ [not allow them to come inside] right away to avoid further repercussions, especially since my friend and I believed it was something arranged by our apt-manager who frequently tried to create issues for us.

Of course when I chosen to travel by air, I have not had any liquids with me, like a few of our desi brothers did in England a few years ago and I think 3 of them who did have get a new place to call home for the next several years But that a topic nobody wants to talk about. I really wish that people on the far left, would come up with there plans to keep the United States safe, instead of crying about what the Unites States has done the last 8 years to prevent any more attacks.

Glenn Greenwald has an article which discusses exactly this point of view

In 2006, when the British police — using (among other things) electronic surveillance conducted by both the U.S. and British Governments — thwarted a Terrorist plot to blow up transcontinental airplanes over the Atlantic Ocean, right-wing polemicists everywhere claimed that this was vindication for the Bush/Cheney warrantless eavesdropping program. But there was one rather enormous problem with that claim: namely, the surveillance in question was entirely legal, conducted by obtaining warrants under the supervision of the FISA court where required by law.