Keiller TN
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Charles Colson wrote in interesting account in an article about the Department of Justice.
" . . . when I recently boarded a KLM flight (the Dutch airline) from Detroit to Amsterdam. On the jetway I, along with the other passengers, encountered eight U.S. Customs officials wearing black uniforms; they looked menacingly like a swat team. It turns out, I found out later, they were in a training program for dealing with smugglers; and they treated us like smugglers, rudely barking out orders to passengers, forcing them to submit to probing examinations. Their behavior was more lik Gestapo agents than U.S. officials. I was embarrassed that foreign nationals would leave the United States with this impression of America." This is from World magazine Oct. 28 issue. This is the site.
http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/10-28-00/national_4.asp
[This message has been edited by Keiller TN (edited October 28, 2000).]
" . . . when I recently boarded a KLM flight (the Dutch airline) from Detroit to Amsterdam. On the jetway I, along with the other passengers, encountered eight U.S. Customs officials wearing black uniforms; they looked menacingly like a swat team. It turns out, I found out later, they were in a training program for dealing with smugglers; and they treated us like smugglers, rudely barking out orders to passengers, forcing them to submit to probing examinations. Their behavior was more lik Gestapo agents than U.S. officials. I was embarrassed that foreign nationals would leave the United States with this impression of America." This is from World magazine Oct. 28 issue. This is the site.
http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/10-28-00/national_4.asp
[This message has been edited by Keiller TN (edited October 28, 2000).]