EDITORIAL: TSA to download your iTunes? (Government moves to expand Constitution-free zones)

Washington Times ^ | 4/18/2010

[WOBBLY BOB]

Thousands Snooping About

[taxcontrol]

It is my understanding as well that they can simply seize your “imported” materials and can deny you entry if you do not supply the password.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Let them get past the multiple passwords first.

That has been tried by many people at many airports. If you don't give the passwords, they keep the equipment under [unconstitutional] asset forfeiture laws. Of course, that can be an acceptable risk for some people in some circumstances. Or you can store your sensitive data online in encrypted format and retrieve it at your destination.

The bottom line is that as long as the sheeple are not shooting at them when they trample your rights ("headshots" per G.Gordon Liddy), they don't care about the Constitution or your rights, who's in office, Republican (Bush) or Democrat (Obama), or your vote or opinion on anything they care about.

[KosmicKitty]

Not exactly new

Borders are one of the places that the 4th Amendment does not protect individuals; as well as things such as searching persons when they are arrested & exigent circumstances, & plain view.

The standard for when the 4th Amendment applies is if there is an expectation of the right to privacy. (And there is no right to privacy in the Constitution, though it implied with the narrowly defined rights in the Bill of Rights. The concept came from later Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and his 1890 article in the Harvard Law Review) At international borders, there is no expected right of privacy.

If you don’t like it, work to change the law, but it isn’t new.

[stuartcr]

I doubt it will change for the better.

[Vendome]

It’s a good thing PortableApps makes it easy to purchase their product. /S

[SeaDragon]

They may try but first they have to get past my password.

[publana]

Same here. After returning home from a trip, I dumped out my purse looking for something else when I saw the pocketknife and nearly fainted. It was given to my by my grandfather and would have died had it been confiscated. I couldn’t believe I forgot to remove it from my purse PRIOR to flying. I went through security 6 times on that trip.

[Clint Williams]

Anyone who thinks the constitution exists anymore as anything but an historical document is either an idiot, a fool, or a Democrat (but I repeat myself).

America -- a great idea, didn't last.

[tax-serf]

This has nothing to do with an “implied” right to “privacy” — it’s a gross violation of the explicitly stated right to be secure in one’s person, papers, and effects.

[tax-serf]

TrueCrypt can be set up with two layers — one password for expendable “secrets” in the outer layer, another for real secrets in the inner layer.

[KosmicKitty]

Not at the international border.

[celtic gal]

ditto