Personally, I long for the day when my U.S. passport has all the veracity of a Soviet passport. I would love to return to a sovereign state of New York: no more guns (except, of course, for squirrel and wild turkey hunting upstate); no standing army to squander the wealth of the nation and antagonize everyone on earth; religion in the church and synagogue and not in the ballot box; a nation based upon true common cause (not endlessly squabbling 'states'), dedicated to knowledge, prosperity, and order - not ignorance, violence, and persecution.