Following in the wake of February's news that customs agents were seizing electronics and making copies of all the files on cell phones and laptop hard drives, a federal appeals court has ruled on the legality of such searches. The result: Yeah, customs can do whatever it wants to your computer when you come across the border, without a warrant, and without cause.
This article is dated april 23 , so it's already happening.
And it contains links to previous articles stating they get you to enter the user id and pass, and then simply take your lap top away and you never see it again.
And they charged one guy with child pornography because of what they found on his laptop.
And mp3 players and digital cameras also make the list for this kind of treatment.
Odd.
I seem to recall stories of not being allowed to take even magazines into russia because they might say something against the communist regime.
And hasn't america been torturing prisoners lately too ? This whole water boarding thing to make them think they're drowning ?
I thought we got rid of the russian communistic party in the 80s under Yetsin. Or did it just change locations ?
I swear we tore down that wall. I swear I saw it on television and everything ! Didn't I ? Why are they building a new one in a slightly different location ?
((View in 1986 from the wst side of graffiti art on the wall's infamous "death strip"))
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