Quote Originally Posted by budster1969
I've been to several Asian countries, I go to the Philippines for at least 2 weeks a year. My personal experience is that American customs and immigration are about the rudest there are. In China, everyone hates the Chinese Government, right? the immigration people are very polite and courteous, same with Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Taipei, I might have missed one or two, but you get the point. My first time back to Seattle from overseas was a fucking rude awakeining, I was disgusted by the attitudes of the customs people and TSA, I almost got arrested for putting a verbal smackdown on a TSA clown for being rude to a little old Japanese lady, he was harrasing her, doing the loud slow talk that makes everyone in the world understand english, and I told him that shit doesn't work and maybe an interpreter would be a good idea and if he needed any more common sense ideas to go ahead ask, I'd only charge a nominal fee.
And the worst part of all this is its such a joke. I use to haul commercial goods into seatac all the time for shipment overseas. They have custom agents on the dock but they check nothing. There was a load of floral products that was picked up at seatac that was flow in from canada. It got delivered to a warehouse in Shelton. When the product was opend up they found about 100 cases of cannabis nicely boxed up.lol And alot of these products that get shipped out of seatac are shipped in the bellies of the same plane your flying on. Have been there numerous times where I've been involved in the whole process including loading on the planes. Nothing was ever checked. No hand checks, no xray checks, nothing. As some of us have said its all just an illusion of security and freedoms. Its going to take a complete economical and political collapse of this country to get things straightened out again. Just roll everything back a hunded years and start again.