Originally Posted by Robbie

What country do the citizens have to show their "papers" to travel in? The Middle East maybe. I don't think anybody in England, or Spain, or Italy or France show their "papers".

I drove all over St. hahahahahaha (back and forth between the Dutch and French sides) and didn't show any "papers".

As for the govt. having "zero impact"...Just flew to Austin Texas and back. Was physically searched at both Las Vegas airport and Austin airport. And no...I don't think they thought that Claudia Marie and I were "terrorists" with bombs. They are looking for drugs and couldn't ever do this kind of search on people until the fear of "terrorists" made it possible.

I don't like being searched like a criminal. I know it means nothing to you. But it means something to me. The govt. should have NO rights to be searching us without a warrant. Yet, the Supreme Court ruled that traffic cops can now search our cars AND your person if they have "reasonable suspicions" (another loss of our constitutional rights in the name of the "war on drugs")

Also...tell all the citizens of the U.S. who are in prisons that the govt. has "no impact on their lives"
The United States is NUMBER ONE for incarcerating it's own people.

When I was a kid in school we were told of the horrible Soviet Union and how they imprisoned their people and sent them to Siberia.

Guess what? We have more of our own citizens in prison than China, Cuba, North Korea, or ANYBODY else.

We have become what I was being taught in school was the very thing we fought against.

But like you said...we all have air conditioning and cable t.v. and the internet, etc.
Numbed down and dumbed down.