[h3]US waging war on tourists, not terrorists [/h3] America is rated the world's most unfriendly destination for foreign travellers in a recent global poll. The War on Terror includes a $15 billion fingerprinting program that humiliates every visitor to America's shores and has yet to catch a single terrorist. The procedures have essentially destroyed America's tourist industry, killing an estimated $94 billion worth of tourist trade and 194,000 American jobs. [blockquote]In a recent poll of international travellers, commissioned by Discover America Partnership, a coalition of US tourist organisations, 70 per cent of respondents said they feared US officials more than terrorists or criminals. Another 66 per cent worried they would be detained for some minor blunder, such as wrongly filling out an official form or being mistaken for a terrorist, while 55 per cent say officials are "rude."... Such comments, and the poll results - which rate the US by a 2:1 margin as the world's "most unfriendly" destination for foreign travellers - are found in "A Blueprint to Discover America," unveiled in January by Discover America Partnership to halt a dramatic decline in foreign visitors. [/p][/blockquote] [a href="vny!://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10436518"]Link[/a]
