[Stone Mountain]

Posters are acting as though this is some recent government ploy to infringe upon our liberties.

No, you're right - it's a classic government ploy to infringe upon our liberties

[robertpaulsen]

There you go.

[tpaine]

Nothing new here folks. -- Governments have been prohibiting 'evil objects' since biblical times, -- they then use the decree as an excuse to search & seize any asset even remotely connected to the 'contraband'..

Statists/communitarian's defend the practice as a needed exercise in socialistic morality.

Rational men see it as a forerunner to revolution.