Posted on 02/23/2013 7:37:06 PM PST by null and void
If that cardboard box has a recycle symbol on it or had packaged an energy efficient appliance, I'm sure you'll sail or fly right through. Just make sure to note which freeway you're under.
Which is why I maintain that there really are few law-abiding citizens just many peaceable ones....at the moment.
What did customs/immigration/border patrol have to say about it; what document did you have on hand to show them it was OK for you to enter the u.s.?
It wasn’t green??!!??
ClearCase_guy: “They make laws so that you break them, and then they have grounds to control you.”
Some people want laws broken for monetary (red light camera fines, asset forfeiture in drug cases, etc) or other reasons, but it seems highly improbable that that is the primary motive for most law. It seems far more likely that most laws are simply meant to control people and are not specifically designed to create lawbreakers. However, laws that create perverse incentives, like the ones I mentioned above, do deserve extra scrutiny. For example, I think asset forfeiture laws violate private property protections in the US Constitution.
I don’t recall running into many requests to show anything, I did of course have the little military ID and a mimeographed sheet of NATO orders, when 4 of us and two French GIs were held up on the French border with vehicle problems, I do remember going in to win over the French Border guards which resulted in getting drunk with them and me pulling out a bottle of Jack Daniels as a gift for them, and them sending me away with a bottle of wine.
In recent years I have wondered if it was even legal for me to carry in bottles of Jack Daniels for such purposes, but they seemed pleased as punch with the gift rather than interested in searching my stuff.
I know that American military customs got all huffy and seemed happy to bust me when he found out I was bringing switch blades back to the states, but his superior told him that my unit was authorized such knives.
I should have added that a specially cleared customs agent is often assigned to check over some military goods that normal customs agents are forbidden access to.
Well, I could have the wrong house. But I at least narrowed it down to a half dozen at most, and made a decent guess - based on name alone, and all in a very few minutes.
“Military ID?”
My guess also.
I was in Vietnam, Okinawa, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong & the Philippines, all without a passport.
You guessed it. Most of the time I arrived on a big grey ship full of US Marines. (and a few sailors we let drive the boat and run the mess decks)
How did you do that?
Military ID?
That and it could have been repainted any time in the last 3 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FnpaWQJO0
(Should have read the rest of the thread before commenting. . . )
Last time I was in Germany, the "entrance control" clerk stamped my passport with out even looking at it. I had a lot more picky crap re-entering the US. I think most of it is "because we can" based.
Regards,
GtG
Last time I was in Germany, the "entrance control" clerk stamped my passport with out even looking at it. I had a lot more picky crap re-entering the US. I think most of it is "because we can" based.
Regards,
GtG
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