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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".
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That's my point - your naming all "good" countries. Go the Middle East and in some questions you can arrested for being clean shaving or your girlfriend wearing a mini skirt.
I have a sister in law from Cuba. The stories she tells me scare the piss out of me.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
As for the govt. having "zero impact"
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I woke up this morning, went for a run, went to the bank to deposit come checks, went online and started work, took my kid to a friend's house, bought myself lunch at Subway.... The government didn't stop me, ask me questions, come to my house. They never do.
Ever.
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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.
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Where were you on 9/11?
You know your not a terrorist, but no one else knows that. Thus, you will be searched. Is that really fucking high of a price to pay to know that you flying safely on a plane?
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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")
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Do you really object that much to being searched to get on a plane? Every fucking country in the world does it.
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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.
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Yep. Do something stupid, go to prison. It keeps my streets safe at night. I'm okay with that really. Because I don't live in fear the police suddenly bashing down my door and searching my house without a warrant and arresting me for something I haven't done.
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We have become what I was being taught in school was the very thing we fought against.
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Which is what? Having a country that people are willing to risk their lives just to live here?