New TSA Rules in 2018?

NOHOME wrote: Canadians should have the same argument against having passports then, yet they are like 20% more likely to have one.

Except that something like 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.

Yes. The Canadians are in the ideal strategic position to invade. They can't defend that border, but they're already staged for the attack.

NOHOME wrote: Canadians should have the same argument against having passports then, yet they are like 20% more likely to have one. As a US citizen living abroad, I know all about it being a PITA to renew, but can't imagine giving up the ability to travel spontaneously anywhere in the world. I mean, what if you should have a sudden need to be in a country without an extradition treaty?

(Note: I have a passport, have used it, and plan on using it in the future)

For me, the thing is that other than certain cultural experiences there is nothing that you can't experience within the United States. Tropics? Florida, Guam, Hawaii, Peurto Rico, St. Thomas. Mountains? Alaska, Rockies, Appalachians. Desert? Arizona. Tundra? Alaska. I really have no big reason to leave US other than to see where my grandpa was wounded in WWII.

If one were paranoid one might think it's all a giant scheme to curb Americans from traveling. When people don't move much and are forced to digest a their information from controlled sources it's much easier to make them believe whatever you tell them.

Like "this is the greatest country in the world", "everyone we say is bad is bad", "Freedom is Slavery", "Ignorance is Strength" and so on.

Or, you know, maybe the US should bring up it's travel security standards up to pretty much every other nation in the world (yes, even the crappy poor ones).

Those big oceans don't protect as much as they used to.

In reply to chaparral:

That's what soothsayers that made the movie Canadian Bacon espoused