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What a great day to be an American!
The TSA is truely W’s fault!
It’s that dammed George W. Bush again. (/sarcoff)
I flew out of DCA a couple of months ago and they didn’t even check my liquids I carried on board. On the way back, both security personnel at EZE and JFK checked them, but the ones at DCA are always talking about stuff and not paying attention.
Let them get past the multiple passwords first.
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And it's not fear of flying.
They could put little ticks and numbers on the wheel that you could spin like a combo lock.
You should notice the Alinski information center in the White House has issued orders to all MSM operatives to attempt to tie all Tea Party supporters to domestic terrorism. They are more afraid of Mom and Pop Taxpayer than our real enemies. CNN and MSNBC are on the case wit non-stop brainwashing attempts. Fortunatly hardly anyone pays any attention to them anymore.
Kind of scary ! I traveled to Japan and New Zealand a couple of years ago and I took a 14” iBook with me. Of course, the things I had on it were some pictures, ITunes music and Netscape bookmarks. On the pictures, every so often I would upload them to a server here at home in case the machine would get stolen or go belly up. I also put the pictures on a thumb drive as well. I had the e-mail setup where each time the program was re-run, you would have to put in the password.
One of the clear messages of the constitution regarding this sort of thing is tht the ends do not justify the means. This travesty is much more narrow than the article implies at the beginning and in the title, but it is simply wrong, and unconstitutional, nonetheless.
It only goes to show, judges are imperfect people too. Sometimes woefully so.
Encrypt your data files, ipods, computers, disk drives as a standard practice. I recommend PGP encryption for Windows users.
If ANY officer, agent or government employee wants to snoop, they will require the password to read the files. You can supply the password .... once you receive a copy of their search warrant.
One word:
Truecrypt.
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.
They may try but first they have to get past my password.
America -- a great idea, didn't last.