Unfortunately, there are far too many xenophobes who just can't help making totally stupid and nonsensical statements such as:
"only in America" which in turn end up diverting threads into politically biased flame wars which makes my and the other moderators jobs into never ending nightmares. Personally, I also find that those who make it a habit of responding directly to those patheric barbs that the xenophobes (from all sides) cast about all the time are just as much to blame. By acknowledging that you have been affected by the petty quotes then you have lost the argument.
It invariably tends to be the same offenders. We and they know who they are and it would be appreciated if they could just raise their level of debate up a few notches and out of the kindergaten/gutter and into the more mature and sensible arena that their professional status expects of them.
Yes, there are problems when dealing with US authorities from time to time and the topic of this thread is one of them. However, to imply that it is only a US problem as some immature xenophobes would have you believe is nothing short of an example of their own blinkered denial of how their own government authorities can screw up on a scale that is just as, if not worse, than the US is able to.
Get used to it. They obviously have a problem and we have to learn how to ignore them.