When I was 25, immediately post Generalissimo Francisco Franco's death, I was detained by the Madrid Police, who were actually the Spanish Army. The Police only gave parking tickets. The Army did everything else. One soldier stuck an Uzi in my back while two others grabbed me by each arm, stopped traffic, and dragged me across the multiple lanes and esplanades of the Avenida Generalissimo Francisco Franco. I was placed in the back of their car with one of the soldiers sitting next to me while the other two walked over to a poor guy they had previously stopped on the Avenue to search his car. They had removed all the seats and contents of the car and had them strewn along the side of the street as they searched for something they never found. They returned to the police car where the four of us drove off to the station. After about an hour of questioning, report filling-out, and film confiscation at the station they released me. I walked the three miles back to my hotel, pretty shaken. Good news was my walk took me past the futbol stadium and Real were playing Manchester that night so I took in the game. The reason they detained was that I was taking a picture of an old Spanish woman sitting in a sidewalk cafe with her lace fan in hand. In order to not alert her that I was snapping a photo of her I pointed the camera for a few seconds at a tree in her direction but at about a 45 degree angle to one side of her in order to focus. It turns out these soldiers were about 300 feet in the distance past the tree, unseen by me. They were in the process of tearing the seats out of that guy's car. They believed I was photographing them. Fortunately my command of Spanish is reasonably good and they let me go. At that time in Spain it was forbidden to take any photos of anything related to the Spanish military, including personnel, which I knew. the problem was that the military were omnipresent throughout Madrid, including standing guard everywhere at the Futbol game that night. They manned bullet-proof machine gun turrets overlooking every major square and intersection too. Moral of the story for me: Preserve and enhance the freedoms we have in the USA because the rest of the World throughout history have lived under an assortment fascist, communist, socialist, and all sorts of other "ists" that must resort to tyranny to maintain their positions of power. Giving up our rights to speak, act, and defend ourselves, as we are being badgered to do on a daily basis in this country, will land us in the same situation as that guy on the side of the road in Madrid with the contents of his car strewn all over. . . or worse.