Your kind of relativism is revolting.
This whole incident could have been avoided. No need to jail, lie on, ban and fine anyone.
This is the kind of one size fits all answer you get when you put crazy uncle fedgov in charge of anything.
And during all this "security" someone is wheeling a nuke, drugs, guns or whatever they want right across the border..
But the sheep feel safe when they see the armed military personell standing at the checkpoint (like Osama is going to try and rush us there), and that's all it takes to secure their vote.
Feel people us an point guns at them.. It's amazing what it takes to make a coward feel "safe"