Ethics of pilots fighting for the sides in WWII

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Originally Posted by moilami

TL;DR: I don't want to be treated like a possible terrorist.


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Sorry, I don't really want to spread that propaganda here. I am an amateur photographer and because of that I have read many stories. But if I list even part of it here it begins to look like propaganda.

I just say that based on all news and experiences I have read, many of those coming from citizens of USA, your country appears to have been changed. You seem to have problems with ground level officials too (police and other security personnel), which is not surprising. If you give too much power to common people they will abuse it.

I don't recommend anyone to not go to USA. More than 99.9% of the visitors wont have any problems there. It is just that your officials can ad hoc do very nasty things if they suspect one is a terrorist. I don't want to get arrested in the airport and interrogated for some days before sent back to where I came from. I don't take that risk. I don't want to ruin my holiday. There are maybe 190 (out of 199 or so) countries in the world I would rather visit. Going into some of them would be rather adventurous, which would be part of the experience. But if I travel to USA, I don't want it to be adventurous because of some security personnel. It just feels wrong Your country is now not what it is supposed to be, in my opinion.

I have plans to do either Touring Murmansk or Touring Alps trip next summer. I know anything can happen in those, but I don't have to fear a single bit that officials of Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Austria, Germany, or France would begin to abuse their "rights" against me. Murmansk is a little bit different thing, but huh, much rather Murmansk and Russian cops than USA! That word by the way, USA, was once almost a synonym for a word freedom. No matter how hard I try, I can't say it is so anymore. Do you get it? I don't want to be treated like being a possible terrorist. It is offending.

Did you give me a TL,DR and then go on to post a similar wall of text? lol. Just joking .

You would not be treated any differently than a US citizen and you would have known that if you had read my post lol. We, citizens, are being treated like terrorists in the airports too. It's an ongoing debate, especially within the last few months. I myself have chosen to fly as little as possible since the most recent changes...my own little protest.

However, knowing what I do about security measures in other countries, there is no appreciable difference where security is concerned. We are just now catching up to what is going on elsewhere in the world on the security side. It's sad that it had to come to this.

BTW, there are plenty of places in the world I would not go to and a lot more that I would not live in given their current direction. So I understand what you are saying.

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