Also some would argue that you can't run forever.
Nations are terrible, leaky abstractions (intended to make you feel proud of things you have not done and hate people you have not met) and their use is discouraged.
Fighting for change against cowardly authoritarians themselves armed with machine guns and drones (like the Department of Homeland Security) is pointless without your own weapons, and I do not wish to take up arms. Anything less is ineffective, as Snowden and al-Awlaki and Nacchio (and perhaps Obama) have shown us.
Regardless of what laws are on the books of the respective countries, the state interferes in my day-to-day life vastly less in Germany than in the United States, and the interactions I do encounter are generally way, way less brain damaged than the idiocy perpetrated continuously by the TSA, idiot American cops, et al.
What a shitty and ignorant comment to insult the employees as if they are the ones creating the rules and guidelines they follow. And just because they choose to work at TSA instead of McDonalds somehow makes them dumber is even more stupid.