What's the difference between the US and a despotic regime? We have a gulag system. There is a degree of legal nihilism that borders on lawlessness. For example, the DOJ charged someone with a federal crime for throwing an imported tequila bottle. When the laws mean anything and nothing, you have rule by fiat. There's corruption everywhere...
I’m sure there’s corruption to be found everywhere, however in some places you have recourse, in others you don’t. Borders are quite special areas that one ought to take with utmost seriousness anywhere. You can imagine what would happen if you threw out some coke in the Kuala Lumpur or Singapore airports.
Who said anything about a border? A person was arrested in Seattle for throwing a Jose Cuervo bottle imported from Mexico. The importation was the "foreign or interstate" nexus. Do you own anything that is not imported? That's legal nihilism.
