"And this is the way it will be as long as the US enforces it's right to maintain borders. Many people forget that a navigable waterway is a border."
I am convinced that some of the folks complaining the loudest on this thread are either Libertarians/liberals who hate the notion of borders, or they make their living by engaging in smuggling.
I am a libertarian AND I support strong border protection. Not all libertarians are fruitcakes. There is also a HUGE difference between liberals and libertarians. Most libertarians would agree that national defense is necessary, as well as individual protection- both are ensure by the CG. I certainly would be upset if police raided my home in the middle of the night. However, if police have found 150,000 pounds of cocaine, or 10,000 smuggled people, in houses like mine, I'd inderstand the reasoning.
I wonder if the people in this thread, who are against the CG searches support the silly law that makes us all remove refrigerator doors before throwing them away.
Speaking as someone who considers himself pretty much of a libertarian, I would like to point out that the type of freedom that libertarians so prize cannot exist without border protection.