It's just that for me as an European seemingly all crazy stories like "X tazed by cop for doing nothing at all" or "Y put into jail for having her small children play naked in the garden" come from the US.
Or to back my claims up, let's take some per-capita numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Incarceration_rates_worldw...
Sorry if this comes across as arrogant.
People still travel to the U.S., but it's very likely costing the country a lot of tourist dollars - not that the U.S. cares, they have enough tourists as is.
No talk policy will make everything go away.
This is beyond understanding for me, how can a word ban someone from flight.
In ol' days when you could smoke and drink and have a nice discussion about shit in world... while in airplane.