Several years ago I drove a car from West Germany to East Germany. I had soldiers and police looking at my papers, looking in the trunk, going through my stuff, looking under the hood,asking questions, etc. At the time I told myself I was glad to be an American where all this crap doesn't happen to you. We have become East Germany. Armed guards, security points, fences, dogs, surveillance cameras, barbed wire and checking everyone's papers is what the USA is all about today. It is not the same country I grew up in.