Strange question at my arrival in the US?

Question

When I arrived in the US why did the US authorities asked me if I was a member of the n**i party between 1935 and 1945, and this just after I gave them my birth date?

For European it's a very weird question...

Answer 1

What's your birth date only then

i can give a clear answer

Answer 2

yes it is a strange question considering u wernt even born were they irish or was they asking if u were in a former life lol

Answer 3

govt protects us and dont want n***s here..

Answer 4

The Americans seem to be more suspicious than they let us to believe

Answer 5

heh....the overzealousness of the Homeland Security.  Gotta' Love it.  Save us from ourselves please.  America's Homeland Security  today is yesterdays SS and KGB... their just in their baby years.  Give it 20 years and even the American Citizens will be asked this question right after they are made to remove their shoes for pre vehicular driving.

That's actually a legal backloop the Security Agencies have to ask.  More than likely you experienced a new guy who was going through his training and being made to ask all the questions that they have to to pass their own tests.  Once the guy gets passed by his supierors, he will come to realize the stupidity of the question and stop asking it, especially once it become physically impossible to have been a member of the party at that time and still be alive.  It's a left over MacArthism Law, that no one has thought to remove off the agenda, because some of the "baddies" are still living out their lives in secret.

Write a letter to your countries consulate and make it sound as if you were very insulted by this question, so the ambassador approaches the American government about the "harrassment" people from his country receive while on holiday.  If there is one thing I learned living in America is that the squeekier the wheel, the more oil is added to it.

EDIT...you may not care...but as an American I really don't want people in other countries to think that all Americans are stupid.  Honestly it's just our government and the hoops everyone has to go through, even the citizens.  Like I said, give it 20 years and America won't be bothering other countries by its existance....it'll be despize by even Australia, the nice guys of the Globe.

Answer 6

Really _illyanna? You are advising to write their consulate and make it sound as if they were mortified when the poster clearly does not seem so? It is this kind of chicanery that has a wold view of Americans as untrustworthy, deceitful swine so prevalent. Were you one of those in students that would muster up a tear before bringing your 'C' paper to your teacher's attention and spouting on about falsified family hardships that affected your performance? Methinks meh-be so.....