Originally Posted by B747-437B

That is the saddest part of this new age we live in. The United States which has been the role model of freedom, fairness and democracy for every country to aspire to for two centuries has now sunk almost to the level of a two bit banana republic as far as respect for its own laws goes. The entire world wishes it wasn't so. Fortunately, non-citizens can simply choose to deal elsewhere (as I have chosen) but US citizens do not have the same choice.