Visit America? No, Thank You.

 "The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."
  George Washington

It is the simple fact that now in the United States, despite Obama's promise during the election campaign that he would repeal the Patriot Act and thereby end the practice, it is possible to be legally/illegally "disappeared" - swept up off the street at the whim of one or another public servant, injected into a system where habeas corpus, the rest of the Bill of Rights, the Geneva Convention, and international law hold no sway and you might never be heard from or of again. I say "legally/illegally" because the practice is sanctioned by laws but those laws are as far from being constitutional as a budgerigar is from being a condor. No matter, it seems. The American public is happy enough to sit quietly as their once great nation daily resembles the Third Reich more with each passing day - despite the coronation of the messiah and his "change you can believe in".

Now if this were not enough to keep any relatively sane foreigner from not entering Mordor, they've added yet more disincentive. Beginning next month, all foreigners leaving the country will be fingerprinted. Also in June, the Department of Homeland Security (wouldn't "Gestapo" have been shorter, more familiar and less of a mouthful?) will begin a trial wherein Canadians and Americans traveling between the two countries will be issued with identity cards with embedded RF. I suppose we should be thankful they have not decided to demand that they be implanted.

911 justifies this?

My god! What on earth has happened to Americans?