Add to that I'm a pilot and aircraft owner...just got a notice about a seminar locally on "How to deal with the dreaded 'ramp check'" where the FAA can just walk up to you and ask you for all your "papers". If they find something out of order they can ground you and/or your aircraft on the spot. So intimidating they felt they needed a seminar on how to deal with it. I guess the FAA are all a bunch of jackbooted Nazi's huh? I hear fishermen out at the lake get asked for their licenses (papers) by rangers too...and on and on and on...I guess Mexicans feel somehow they are a special group that should have separate laws.
We cannot begin to think we have any kind of National Security otherwise.
2 years ago I chartered a boat for deep sea fishing. The Coast Guard radioed our captain to stop and they were coming aboard. No reason, just a random spot check. They held us up for about a half hour. Searched the whole boat for anything not meeting regulations, checked all of the fish holds for under sized fish, species of fish, etc. We hadn’t even started fishing yet. Finally they told the captain he needed to get new flares his were too old. They left us with a warning, no citations. The Captain was actually surprised to know his flares may not have been any good, and gave us an additional hour of fishing to make up for the embarassment.
Thinking about it afterwards, I realized these kinds of situations are a necessary evil we have to deal with. The Coast Guard guys were doing there job for the benefit of our safety.