Don't you want me?

Blogging is likely to remain light for a while yet but I had to break radio silence to protest about the latest attempts by the US Government to discourage anybody foreign ever going to the US ever. As the other half is a US citizen, and currently living in the US (this week at least), I have a vested interest in travel across the pond being as easy as possible. But trying to look at this objectively
surely there must be a point at which treating everybody who turns up at your front door like a common criminal starts to become counter-productive? How many tourists and investors, especially those nice gulf based gentlemen who have just bailed out half of Wall Street, want to be poked and prodded by the trained gorillas who man US immigration every time they fly into the 'land of the free'.

Of course freedom loving, visitor welcoming, data protecting Europe is throwing open its doors to one and all, isn't it? *heddesk* as the American's would say.