Marina wrote:

   "Nowadays my emotional reaction to TSA and the like is about the same
   as it was as a kid passing through E. Germany. PAPERS PLEASE !"

   John Kay of the band Steppenwolf is the son of East German immigrants.
   He came to the states young, but he had a vicious take on it... or was
   the song The Ostrich about America, even in the 1960s?

    "We'll call you when you're six years old

   And drag you to the factory
   To train your brain for eighteen years
   With promise of security
   But then you're free
   And forty years you waste to chase the dollar sign
   So you may die in Florida
   At the pleasant age of sixty nine
   The water's getting hard to drink
   We've mangled up the country side
   The air will choke you when you breathe
   We're all committing suicide

   But it's alright

   It's progress folks

   keep pushin' till your body rots

   We'll strip the earth of all it's green
   And then divide her into parking lots
   But there's nothing you and I can do
   You and I are only two
   What's right and wrong is hard to say
   Forget about it for today
   We'll stick our heads into the sand
   Just pretend that all is grand
   Then hope that everything turns out ok
   You're free to speak your mind my friend
   As long as you agree with me
   Don't criticize the father land
   Or those who shape your destiny

   'Cause if you do
   You'll lose your job your mind and all the friends you knew
   We'll send out all our boys in blue
   They'll find a way to silence you
   But there's nothing you and I can do
   You and I are only two
   What's right and wrong is hard to say
   Forget about it for today
   We'll stick our heads into the sand
   Just pretend that all is grand
   Then hope that everything turns out ok
   It sounds like...
   https://youtube.com/watch?v=8SeUqDjPeP0
   Also see Monster/Suicide/America
   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U-vGxe1eMmQ
   Randalls Island Live edition. Black activists had taken over the small
   soccer stadium off harlem NY where the 3 day concert took place with
   the help of a number of white ny radicals and made it a free concert.
   The song opens with their road manager explaining to some surly looking
   BPPs how they had to negotiate a pay cut with another venue they were
   booked at because they wanted to be THERE, and how much the band liked
   playing NY... Madison Square Garden...
   One of them says "This isnt Madison Square Garden its a political
   protest."
   He responds:
   "If you'll allow me...  You'll find out thats EXACTLY what we're going
   to do.
   Ps. The footage of the war and protests shown in the video are not
   added. It was the light show projected on the stage backdrop.
   Later, when Leslie West and Mountain played, someone had accessed the
   score and announcing booth and raised the NLF flag over the stadium,
   and a good time was had by all.
   Rr