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?Neither I nor my English wife had any trouble at all traveling in and out of the US last year. On the last leg home through Jacksonville and Atlanta our carry-on goods got looked at by TSA folks, with little delay. We had the laptop, and stuff I'd gotten in the US like the GR3/GR20, and my transparent-blue Steinberger Synapse (delightfully carry-on). The male inspectors really loved looking over the guitar, but I didn't feel delayed or threatened in any way. When we were checking our luggage I got the question about the Synapse: "Is that a firearm?" I had thought up a lot of lines to cast forth during being intrusively searched but the searching never happened, and I didn't see anyone else being pulled aside. I can assume therefore that it's possibly the attitude one displays during the go-through that might make all the difference, and most likely has an effect on further trips through the security go-throughs. Make enough of an indignant stink about it and there's little doubt there will be a note made about it. Additionally, visiting a prisoner in Guantanamo would seem to by default require some sort of more-than-regular inspection. This should not be a surprise, and I'd be interested to hear any non-third-party stories LD members have about such difficulties. -----Original Message----- From: Rainer Straschill Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 2:22 PM To: Looper's Delight Mailing List Subject: Is the new Stalin African-American? http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/15/laptops/index.html (via @ilovetypography on twitter). Any of you had experiences similar to those described in this article about DHS/TSA proceedings when entering the US (both for US citizens and others)? Sad to say, but the way this looks, this may require us all either to never enter the US again - or to go back to hardware loopers... Rainer -- http://moinlabs.de Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/moinlabs