This is so un-American I can hardly believe that anyone in the USA would do it. Where's the due process? Where's the confrontation of the accuser? Where's the ability to redress a wrong?
This is so wrong on so many levels of Americanism. It's just Soviet, that's what it is.
No. They won't. That's because not a single shot will be fired in retaliation to government intrusion and control. Not a single thing will be done about it.
Can you support that? Isn't it more probable that furious marketing of government positions that show futility in any action against it, is causing people not to react?
Huh? In the Soviet Union one had to be registered as residing in a particular city. You could be stopped and asked for your papers, and if you were in a different city from the one you were down as living in there would certainly be questions.
There are checkpoints well within the USA which demand your papers, question your travel claims, and will detain you if anything seems amiss. They are spreading, and are not mere impromptu roadblocks but full-blown permanent "toll booth" structures.
How ridiculous that the onus is on the citizen, not the officer, to make sure the citizen is not subject to unreasonable search (meaning: The officers will try and see if they are "allowed").
I traveled in the Soviet Union in the 80's. Never once did I get subjected to the type of treatment that I get from the TSA, and I'm not on any DNF list.
Also, don't confuse having to register to aid in central planning with ease of travel. As an American, I traveled all over HHA and rarely had to show my papers. So, no, there certainly weren't questions...not like you alluded to.
Questions, perhaps. Not: "You are not allowed to be here, we don't care if your grandmother is dying; we don't care if you are attending your sister's wedding."
This is what is happening in the US with the no-fly list.
This is so wrong on so many levels of Americanism. It's just Soviet, that's what it is.