> Beware the grass-is-greener trap. Please don't confuse my views for a grass-is-greener view. I live in one of the most expansive surveillance states in the w

> Beware the grass-is-greener trap. Please don't confuse my views for a grass-is-greener view. I live in one of the most expansive surveillance states in the world (the UK) and generally what happens in the US tends to come over here eventually. However, I do have the option to travel or not to travel to the US, and as long as the US Government treats visitors and it's own citizens in this way, I choose not to. For what it's worth, I also choose not to go to Israel and some other countries for a whole load of other reasons. I was simply stating my view on the USA's zany policies. > You can certainly be searched without a warrant all throughout Europe. I can't speak for all of Europe but we certainly have Section 44 (of the Terrorism Act 2000) Stop and Search in the UK which has been routinely abused.