So, they can confiscate your laptop or flash cards/drives just because they want to check them out to make sure you are not a terrorist.
BULLSHIT!
Here's where we are headed my friends, "thought crimes", "What are you reading? What are you looking at? Who is that in the photo?"
From the Washington Post:
The Post story highlights a new Customs and Border Patrol policy document that states:
In the course of a border search, and absent individualized suspicion, officers can review and analyze the information transported by any individual attempting to enter, reenter, depart, pass through, or reside in the United States.
The new policy says CPB can take away the laptop or analyze copies of its contents:
Officers may detain documents and electronic devices, or copies thereof, for a reasonable period of time to perform a thorough border search. The search may take place on-site or at an off-site location.
CBP says that the officers are supposed to return the laptop and destroy copies of the contents if nothing illegal is found (but be sure not to have any downloaded songs that you haven’t paid for).
That is far from comforting, even once you get your laptop back days or weeks later, because “nothing in this policy limits the authority of an officer to make written notes” about what was in the laptop.
This is not to be tolerated! Who the hell would give these jokers their laptop without a fucking warrant??!! I would make quite a stink at my port of entry if this happened to me.
Some comments found on Think Progress about this:
misshusseinmolly Says:
mary Says
August 1st, 2008 at 11:05 am
I’m sure that terrorists are crossing our borders with laptops that have incriminating evidence on them. That sounds reasonable to me. (snark off!)
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I’m sure the real terrorists pay very close attention to what they can do and what they can’t. And they find a way around all walls that are erected.
So the government listens in on telephone calls? No problem. Use pre-paid throwaway phones. They’re untraceable.
So the government seizes laptops and searches them? No problem. Don’t bring a laptop across the border. Or a flash drive. If you have to get digital information into the country, zip it and send it to somebody in an e-mail (preferably somebody not being profiled and spied on), or burn a CD and mail it.
So the government profiles all scary brown people? No problem. Recruit terrorists who don’t fit the profile.
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CBP says that the officers are supposed to return the laptop and destroy copies of the contents if nothing illegal is found (but be sure not to have any downloaded songs that you haven’t paid for).
Gotta love that phrase: “Supposed to”
Nancy Pelosi is SUPPOSED TO begin impeachment proceedings because the President and Vice President are CRIMINALS.
The Gov’t is SUPPOSED TO obtain warrants before spying on American citizens.
The Military, the CIA, et al are SUPPOSED TO treat all detainees in US Custody with dignity. They are not SUPPOSED TO torture them.
The Democrats are SUPPOSED TO begin ending this war, which is why they gained power in ‘06.
The United States Govt is SUPPOSED TO be by, of, and for the PEOPLE.
Military Force is SUPPOSED TO be a last resort.
Our elected officials are SUPPOSED TO be accountable to us, their BOSSES.
This is SUPPOSED TO be America.
In respective order to all listed above:
They WON’T (delete copies of info taken)
She WON’T (Pelosi)
They DON’T and WON’T (obtain warrants)
They AREN’T (treating prisoners properly) and they DO (torture)
They AREN’T (ending the war)
It ISN’T (by of or for)
It ISN’T (a last resort)
They AREN’T (Accountable)
and last but not least:
THIS IS NOT AMERICA.
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Well, let's see where this runs to in the coming weeks...Oh, that's right, it's time for Congress Summer Break!
Fucktards!
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