At least they let him go. Other countries may have not.
/johnny
2. They’re Keeping Records. A federal, computer-searchable file exists on my refusal to answer questions.
they'll be back. you got lucky.
3. This Is About Power, Not Security.
Truly, Einstein is your daddy.
I've been travelling internationally for the past 40 years, and they always ask questions like that (both here and abroad). Answering with "none of your business" is just plain stupid.
It's obvious, ya wanted to speak to Obama's boss.
The dude is just asking for a cavity search.
Reminds me of this video
The RIGHT Way to Handle a Police Stop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJrQBwJpqk
and this video.
Dont Talk to Police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc&feature=related
Good post.
I am shocked and ashamed at the answers I’m seeing here from freepers.
The lawyer was polite, but firm —courage.
I feel like I am NOT AT FREE REPUBLIC, seeing the idiotic answers here...
Congratulations; I doff my hat to you. I don’t know if I would have had the patience to have so courteously waited them out.
I have a boot on my left foot, going through Jamaica security on the way to my ship. A female security told me to take it off and I said, “no.” She did a double take and asked why not. I told her I couldn’t get it back on correctly without the air pump, which was on the ship. She called over her supervisor, who patted down my pockets and let me go.
From Wikipedia:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) article 13 states that [...] everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
It may be difficult to block you from returning (where would you go?) but it is much easier to prevent you from leaving ever again. It's still against the UDHR, but since they are issuing passports they are firmly in control. They can deny you a passport for several reasons already.
The best question to ask when being detained. If the answer is yes, you can just turn and walk away as if the police don't exist. If the answer is no, it can come in handy if there is ever a related trial.
This is a classic example of being an ass because you can.
Here is an overriding example. There was a time when commercial lawyers ensured that all contracts were in proper legal form, clearly expressed the desires and expectations of all parties and provided remedies for failures to perform under the terms of an agreement. Then, a contract was simply an enforceable agreement.
Now, lawyers (because there are so many and they need something to do) have set themselves up into a new arena.
Time and again, two non-lawyer parties reach a mutually advantageous agreement. They then call their respective lawyers to reduce the agreement to writing. The lawyers, however, decide that it their job to get their client a “better deal.” They often spend hundreds of (billable) hours, achieve no substantiate benefit for their clients, and only get the two contracting parties mad at each other.
Often what was to be a mutually beneficial arrangement is never concluded, or even worse, becomes so one sided the underlying business proposition fails, after everyone has put a few million into it.
It's especially bad with female lawyers who think they have to enter every meeting with a scowl and an adversarial attitude.
I was recently called in to help mediate a libel and slander case against a TV station. Three times I had it settled, and everyone was happy, but the opposing lawyers screwed it up.
I finally called in both counsel and told them if they screwed up this 4th settlement, I was going to call their clients in and tell them I thought both counsel were simply trying to ensure the case went to trial, to vastly increase their billable hours.
They said I wouldn't dare. I gave them three names of other bar members they both knew and offered to have them call and ask if they thought I would do that.
The deal was dictated, reviewed and inked in 40 minutes!
Lawyers, stop acting like assholes because you can!