[sam_paine]

You do...[such n so.]
When ... enough people figure out we live in an unfree nation, THEN someone might listen [to me].

What a banal and childish "me, me, me" attitude.

If you would read my comments on the thread, I conceded that random dog searches are another step toward the left. But:

1) A US Citizen can be more free than any other person on the planet.

2) Only those US Citizens that exercise their freedoms actually have them.

Just sitting around and bitching about it ain't a free person make.

If you can manage the attention span required, read Natan Sharansky's "Fear no evil" and you may learn that freedom cannot be taken away from a person that does not voluntarily relinquish it through apathy (and whining).

[eno_]

1) A US Citizen can be more free than any other person on the planet.

2) Only those US Citizens that exercise their freedoms actually have them

You waaaay overrate the U.S. on freedom. We are an also-ran in economic freedom, privacy, and taxation. You are complacent.