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- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -1/+19How did this get approved in the land of the free? I could see in China or Russia. Not in the USA. I guess the terrorist won.... They killed the USA.
- chicoer2001, on 06/26/2008, -0/+17Another great idea form DHS. I remember once I was almost fined for not declaring a bag of Oreo cookies. Makes you wonder who's worried about the terrorists.
- btschul, on 06/26/2008, -0/+17software cannot explode. software cannot kill someone. is there any valid reason for this? no, there is not. This does not tighten national security in the least. It is the government using fear of terrorism to conduct warrantless unconstitutional searches. Warrantless phone taps, the dhs can download the entire contents of your computer for review later with out a warrant, the patriot act, McCain or Obama in november. Soon, they'll be going after the internet.
Totaliarianism, here we come. - d3lta, on 06/25/2008, -0/+16Everytime I leave and enter I'm changing my background to goatse and putting only one item on the desktop, an avi titled "Suicide Video - I Warned You" and I'll let my buddy Rick Astley take it from there.
- jollyholly, on 06/26/2008, -0/+13"but if you aren't a terrorist, then you have nothing to hide! right?
are you a freedom hating terrorist?"
That kind of logic is so flawed it freaks me out..
I hope you're being sarchastic :) - inactive, on 06/26/2008, -0/+13The 4th Amendment prohibits illegal searches and seizures. There is a "boarder search exception" for people entering the US. Presumably this was originally created to stop smuggling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_excepti ...
I have always found this treatment of everyone entering the US as a criminal offensive. In the post 9/11 world this "exception" is being used to treat everyone as a potential terrorist. Preventing this kind of government policy is exactly the reason we have a 4th Amendment. Soon there will be so many exceptions to the 4th Amendment, that we might as well strike it from the Constitution. The FISA wiretapping provision is another "exception"... - Hellman109, on 06/26/2008, -1/+13Ironically, as Im sure your aware, that by searching your laptop they are taking your freedom.
So to change your second sentence it should be:
'Are you a freedom hating DHS officer?' - InfamousAtheist, on 06/26/2008, -0/+12RIP 4th Amendment.
Murdered by the Bush Administration and the spineless, corporate-owned Congress of the United States. - steveysjs, on 06/25/2008, -0/+9We just let them take our rights away - piece by piece! What if they find 'stuff' that your not supposed to know/have on your laptop? Are they going to blacklist you? How far away are they from then installing monitoring software as a precaution too? What have you got to hide you terrorist!?!?
- stfucupcake, on 06/26/2008, -0/+8As the government routinely steps on the rights of the everyday citizen without recourse, perhaps it will listen to the only force that has any clout with politicians:: big business.
Let's see how business execs react when their company laptops are routinely opened, divulging company secrets and bogging down their people at airports/borders.
But let's face it: this is a policy that easily discriminates. I doubt many average looking white guys will have their laptops searched. - Sillywombat, on 06/26/2008, -1/+8dude, if you do that, you ***** will soon be like goatse's when the DHS have finished with you.
- njlovold, on 06/26/2008, -0/+7That type of statement scares me a lot. If everyone thought like you than police officers wouldn't need to get search warrants to enter your home, because 'if you weren't guilty you shouldn't care'. Some people value their privacy, since that is one of our guaranteed rights as an American. Or maybe businesses shouldn't care that some customs agent now has the power to reveal all of their trade secrets (but we should just trust the government to be discreet with our secrets, ya right).
- Sillywombat, on 06/26/2008, -0/+6How did it get so far so fast i will never know.
I start to get rather scared with everything that is happening with america at the moment. What was the "Land of the free" is now turning into a country with ever diminishing civil liberties. - njlovold, on 06/26/2008, -0/+5Agreed.
- njlovold, on 06/26/2008, -0/+5I agree almost entirely with that statement, except that corporate America doesn't want their electronic equipment searched either. Corporate America is lobbying to put limits on this, please read other articles on this issue.
- CoolHandLuke70, on 06/26/2008, -0/+4Geez, I hope your joking!
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3The government is doing insider trading and turning Wall Street into the new Armageddon. It won't be long before soldier will be deployed to downtown New York to put down the huge riots over open, law breaking, insider trading.
- btschul, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2It's not bush. It's the whole ***** lot of them. A whole ***** of democrats were paid off to vote for immunity for telco companies. They're all ***** corrupt.
http://digg.com/politics/Dems_Who_Flipped_On_Telec ... - btschul, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2That means the terrorists have won.
- maiku00, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1I'm being extremely sarcastic
- JoanDark, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1If I get a new computer, will they copy the entire contents of this for me?
- maiku00, on 06/25/2008, -11/+3but if you aren't a terrorist, then you have nothing to hide! right?
are you a freedom hating terrorist?
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