Is doing some sub-prime mortage brokering on Wall Street what they mean? And I travel a lot to Las Vegas and San Francisco. A LOT of stuff goes on there that is most certainly deemed immoral by a fair amount of people.

Legally necessary or not, these questions ARE an insult.

Alex

The same goes for you. Like people HAVE TO ANSWER YES and there are some mind reading tools that exist to know otherwise. I think you and Joe live in what’s known as a fantasy world. Either that or you have some magical psychic ability that you guys need to market. Nothing stops these guys from lying. So long as their behavior does not stand out as irregular, they would then moved along without further delay. Therefore, all they have to do is check “No”. What a revelation!

……Sir, have you lost all reasons of common sense? Your post HURT my brain reading it. Do you SINCERELY think that questionnaire would have caught these suspects.? I hope not. On the other hand, I guess by your response, you live in Jim Carey’s “Liar Liar” movie. Everyone has to tell the truth and can’t act in a deceiving manner. Like a terrorist is going to answer yes to any one of those. Do you think they have the IQ of a rock? They might be suicidal but they are from from DROOLING IDIOTS. Come on. If you are going to post something SO ILL THOUGHT OUT, at least do so in satire and not trying to sound smart. Your post has really made me question the veracity of things you say.

@ Elliott-
You may think these questions insulting, and that’s your right, but they are necessary and do need to be asked. Part of what makes the U.S. a safe place to visit is knowing that there’s some minimum standards to actually enter the U.S. and that there’s certain kinds of people–Nazis, criminals, drug addicts–who shouldn’t be let in. The plain fact is that these questions have been around for decades and it hasn’t insulted people in a way that keeps them from coming to the U.S. in droves.

and what physical disorders are we talking about exactly? Shall applicants say Yes because of sleep apnea? Wheat allergy? Bunions?

Petty shit is bad enough, but /badly-implemented/ pettiness makes me even crankier.

Question 2: Do you practice or claim the Islamic Religion? If so, state your age.

Anyone answering yes to any of the above gets physically searched or puffed or through the clothes scanned for explosives.

Lets call a spade a spade here – to us an old expression. Either of the above questions, together with an active review of travel documents, would have identified Reid, Muttallab, and every single one of the 9/11 hijackers. Then its simple police work.

The reason why this works is that all of the people ‘who would do us harm’ and who already have attempted attacks would have been caught by these questions since they are not citizens and would have needed to answer them. Unless they have pristine passports issued without any other stamps – they would have to tell the truth since their travel documents would belie their travels to Yemen or Pakistan or wherever else terrorists travel.

We are talking about air travel; not driving truck bombs to government buildings. So don’t give me McVeigh as an excuse.

Finally – every one of the folks who answer yes or who possess travel documents for identified nations are screened by female and Jewish ICE agents – lets put the pressure on a little bit right at the outset.

Well past time to update and add some intelligence in the foreigners tracking system !!!

Until American citizens somehow experience the unpleasant nature of trying to get into this country, there will never be any incentive to make it even slightly more welcoming. The entry forms are poorly laid out and confusing (it really shouldn’t take a flight attendent ten minutes to explain it). The staff at INS are often surly and grumpy. And getting a US visa is ghastly, at best. I have, of course, had delightful entry experiences into the US with friendly officers but these have been the exception. Then there is the whole finger-printing business.

Fortunately, once you get out of the airport, the US is a great place to be. But the first impressions are terrible.

In fairness, I believe the quaratine forms of my own country still ask travellers if they are carrying uranium in their luggage.

While the odds of catching a Nazi today are small, there are still quite a few left. I am not going to get into the whole debate here. I believe what they did was wrong, against humanity, etc. However, we’re talking about horrible people who committed acts 65 years ago. It’s a rock and a hard place issue. Most of these individuals are very elderly, so very little is served by going after them. Sure, it sends the message that this behavior will not be tolerated, and that is rightfully so. Sadly, when you are talking people in their early 80s and later, they have lived their lives, had children, and moved on. Nothing you do to them will really change that fact. There was a gentlemen in Cleveland who they extradited to Germany recently. He’s like 90 or so. Granted, you can toss him in jail, but it won’t be any different than life in a nursing home. I mean, you can’t really lock up a 90 year old man in a general populous. Likewise, we are no longer holding executions for these people. The last such one was Adolf Eichmann in 1960 or there about by Israel. Anyhow, these individuals do exist. Yet, I highly doubt they’ll check “Yes”.

On a side note. We could take the world’s biggest Monsters “Nazis” and give them a fair trial at Nuremberg, but we can’t take these religious fundamentalists and give them a day in court? Are we to believe the international community is far better at handing out justice than the U.S. It certainly seems so. What happened to us setting and living by our example of freedom? We are giving this abortion clinic doctor a trial, and what he did was no better. We try murderers every day. Better yet, we even gave Mcveigh a trial. However, we somehow can’t ship these idiots off to the Hague or do it ourselves? Really. Something’s truly wrong with a country who has something to hide. Nothing is lost by giving justice regardless of the outcome, but everything is lost by denying it. No truer words will ever be spoken.

MJ makes a good point.

Actually, on reflection, I think this is an IQ test. Anyone “dumb” enough to answer yes to any of these questions is denied entry on the ground of mental incapacity.