Originally Posted by
mecabq
I'm not so sure. I don't think it's quite that "because of TSA, I will go to Canada instead," but rather repeated hints from the news, popular culture, and personal interactions that people come to internalize the idea that the U.S. is an unfriendly police state, so they don't want to go there.
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Police state? Yea you're right, asking to take your shoes off at the airport is just like living in N. Korea or Iran.