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Not sure WHAT this means for a state like Michigan where our whole eastern side borders with a foreign country.
1 posted on 01/25/2014 8:04:59 AM PST by madison10
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To: Springfield Reformer

ping!


2 posted on 01/25/2014 8:12:42 AM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: madison10
AFAIK, the 4th Amendment has never been considered to apply to those entering the USA from another country. If it did, every search of luggage, vehicle or ship would require a warrant.
3 posted on 01/25/2014 8:14:38 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: madison10
"Not sure WHAT this means for a state like Michigan where our whole eastern side borders with a foreign country."

I suspect it means the same thing as any state that borders the Atlantic or Pacific ocean. It is but one more step to have no presumption of privacy at all and that is coming.

4 posted on 01/25/2014 8:16:25 AM PST by Truth29
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To: madison10

The Supremes have to date ruled that the “border exemption” applies only at ports, border crossing sites and functional equivalents such as international airports.

I believe books, papers and other personal items have always been subject to search when entering this country. Electronic media, while likely to contain a lot more information, are simply an extrapolation of this practice.


6 posted on 01/25/2014 8:20:09 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: madison10

Yea, I’m about 120 miles from the border and work often brings me inside the zone. I no longer go out of the country.

I understand the principle behind the outrage but personally I’m well beyond it. I think that Øbozo is an incipient tyrant and dictator. He’ll tell you himself that he’s impatient for Congress to do his will and so he’s got his pen and his cellphone.

So when I travel I use a laptop that has only the bare essentials. No cached passwords, no links to personal accounts, and no questionable documents. If they want in I’ll protest but if they succeed then good luck getting past the PGP disk encryption. And even if they do then I’ve set up a booby-trap account that wipes the data folder if you log onto it.

I conduct my business as though I’m operating in enemy territory because.....I’m operating in enemy territory. ;’)


7 posted on 01/25/2014 8:20:32 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: madison10

I believe that the US, like the UK, now has an unwritten Constitution. It’s flexible. It suits the needs of the decision-makers. Your inalienable rights have become unimportant.


8 posted on 01/25/2014 8:22:21 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Anti-Complacency League! Baby!)
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To: GeronL; Revolting cat!

“The founding fathers never explicitly discussed laptop computers.” < /some wise latina probably >


10 posted on 01/25/2014 8:29:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: madison10

someone’s going to make millions with a hard drive destruction algorithm that can be remotely activated, say from a keyfob. “Yeah, sure - go ahead and confiscate my computer!”


12 posted on 01/25/2014 8:37:44 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: madison10

The USA is no longer a nation of laws, it is a nation of men. And those “men” in fedgov positions of authority are tyrants.

Time to water the Tree.


13 posted on 01/25/2014 8:46:57 AM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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To: madison10
Not sure WHAT this means for a state like Michigan where our whole eastern side borders with a foreign country.

Try also Wa., Or.,Id.,Mt.,Nd.,Mn.,Wi., Ak.,Ca.,Az.,Nm.,Tx,La.,Ms.,Al.,Fl.,Ga.,SC.,Nc.,Va.,Md.,De.,Nj.,Ny.,Ct.,Ri., Ma., Me. etc. just to name a few. You get what I mean. The whole damn country falls under this unconstitutional ruling.

15 posted on 01/25/2014 8:54:05 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: madison10

New practice.

Backup your laptop BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE COUNTRY.


16 posted on 01/25/2014 8:55:40 AM PST by G Larry
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To: madison10

How bout if you live withing 100 miles of the geographical center of the United States?

Liking Kansas more and more every day.


17 posted on 01/25/2014 9:06:04 AM PST by Delta 21 (If you like your freedom, you can keep your freedom. Period.)
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To: madison10

If you like your laptop you can keep it. Period.
If you like your privacy you can keep it. Period.
If you like your Constitution you can keep it. Period.


18 posted on 01/25/2014 9:09:23 AM PST by Thom Pain (If you like your country you can keep it. Period.)
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To: madison10

This is what they do. They swear that they respect the Constitution, but then find ways to make it invalid.

It’s the American way. Deny you’re doing it. Give it a nice-sounding name. Go right on doing what you always did.


21 posted on 01/25/2014 9:41:28 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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