All your replies are noted T, you seem to be happy enough with them & happy enough to live with them & hopefully you'll never want for better or for more, it's to bad that you've had to live with these these infringment to your rights to privacy, freedom to travel freely without question or fear of being denied access to transportation & as for the rest if you had lived here you would notice the change & we here are not happy about, hopefully you will never have the disire to visit US to see what is now & what once was.
Keep on with your eyes closed to the rest of the world & stay where you are, you seem to be most comfortable in your shell.

"My "civil rights" are so far remain unthreatened and undiminished."

I find it hard to belive that things in your part of the world haven't changed at all since 9/11. I do know that you've had to live with the facts of life that terrorism brings a lot longer than we have in the US but I believe that when it came to your doorstep it changed quite a bit. I was in Ireland many yrs ago & saw what a fenced in Belfast was like to live in but that was in Ireland & not England so that wouldn't concern you & your little world would it.
Good nite Teribus & dream on baby.

Barry