When you present yourself at a border there is no 4th amendment protection. Customs officers are allowed to go through all of you belongings with no level of suspicion.
I know you will flame me for bringing this up, but I am trying to protect you. You need to know this in case you ever try to cross a border. Everything on your person, in your car, on your phone, computer, iPod....everything is subject to search. When they take a cursory look at your passport and wave you through they are choosing not to exercise that authority.
>I know you will flame me for bringing this up, but I am trying to protect you.
Flame, I should hope not; argue [in the philosophy-sense], sure.
>You need to know this in case you ever try to cross a border. Everything on your person, in your car, on your phone, computer, iPod....everything is subject to search. When they take a cursory look at your passport and wave you through they are choosing not to exercise that authority.
I’m not saying that they had no authority to search him; I *AM* saying that they should be able to give a reason for any [real] detainment or in-depth search that they perform; furthermore, they should be held to account for their barratry. ( Def #2 - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/barratry )
At 0:27 when he asks “Does it matter?” was he being disrespectful, at all? {Would you react the same way if you were asked by a police officer where you were going, and you said ‘to get dinner’ and he asked where, and you said ‘KFC, Pizza Hut, I don’t know... does it matter?’ Also, would you expect the police officer to react in a similar fashion?}
At 2:00 is the request to know why unreasonable?