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Everyone in “fly-over” country is in an uproar over this....

I pray that you are right, but there was so little uproar over the PATRIOT Act, there was so little uproar over subsequent legislation and executive orders, there was so little uproar when a few years ago under Bush, the government decided it had the right to search our laptops when we travel, including looking through our email, photos, and personal documents.

I was under a different handle on freep back then, but when PATRIOT Act was pushed through by Bush and his buddies in Congress, I remember a lot of people ridiculing us for daring to question Bush and his cronies as well as questioning why Bush wasn't working to secure our borders.

Bush had 6-7 years to secure the borders, and Obama has had a few years, and nothing has really been done. God only knows what has been smuggled across the border while law abiding Americans are being searched in a vicious manner.

Don't think this will stop with laptop searches and little boys being assaulted in our airports by the TSA. If you think this will be the end of it, you will be sadly mistaken. Our grandchildren and their grandchildren will curse our names for letting Bush and then Obama do this to us. When Bush and Congress created the Department of Homeland Security, Conservatives should have been 100% against it, because deep down we all knew this was coming.

At some point, the government will probably reserve the right to start stopping cars traveling between states and searching them. All it takes is one terrorist to drive around and the government will tell us that they have to start assuming all drivers on our interstates are potential terrorists.

At some point, the government will probably reserve the right to start stopping cars traveling between states and searching them. All it takes is one terrorist to drive around and the government will tell us that they have to start assuming all drivers on our interstates are potential terrorists.

Your logic is absolutely true. There is no end once the camel has its nose in the tent.... This will ultimately be used in train travel, bus travel, concert and pro-sport veues, etc. They will check cars traveling too—Unless the driver happens to be an illegal alien :( Then the police will let them thru....Seems they won’t institute any additional security on our borders—in fact they are removing National Guard.