Exactly right. US Government Agencies love to impose their insane and paranoid policies on "lesser" nations and pressure them into compliance. It is actually refreshing to be on a foreign flight where they don't seal the cockpit up like a bank vault. It's a sad shame that our culture has become one of suspicion and paranoia. We are trained to see terrorist and criminals around every corner, then forced to endure violations of OUR rights every time some genius wants to justify their job/existence by raising the aviation "threat" level. We are then taught not to question these decisions and what goes on behind closed doors. Big Brother knows whats best for us and he plans to give it to us, like it or not. Sorry if I went off in a different direction. Just speaking my mind.