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   Honesty

   

   Bobby Ganoosh, Aug 8th, 2008 @ 2:12pm

   
   

   Honesty is not a policy embraced by this administration. Fearmongering, lying and pandering are, though.

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 8th, 2008 @ 2:17pm

   
   

   Feingold should be Obama's veep.

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 8th, 2008 @ 2:37pm

   
   

   Hey, you're not supposed to think about that. It's for your own safety.

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   Any first hand tales of woe?

   

   Anonymous of Course, Aug 8th, 2008 @ 2:54pm

   
   

   Has anyone here had their laptop searched by
   US border guards or DHS/TSA employees?
   I'd like to hear about the circumstances.
   
   I had my laptop searched, but it was by
   Canadian border guards and seemed to
   be standard operating procedure for them
   in the mid-90's.
   
   Just curious...

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   LAPTOP SEARCHES

   

   D TEEL, Aug 8th, 2008 @ 2:58pm

   
   

   WE SHOULD BE ASKING LOTS OF QUESTIONS ABOUT FUTURE SURVEILLANCE TECHNIQUES. SHOULDN'T THERE BE PROBABLE CAUSE FOR THAT WIRELESS AUDIO BUTTON STUCK UNDER YOUR LAPEL, THAT RFID TRANSMITTER DROPPED IN YOUR POCKET, AND WHAT ABOUT THAT BIOSENSOR SHOT INTO YOUR ARM?

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   Dan, Aug 8th, 2008 @ 3:11pm

   
   

   Thats my senator. Ata boy Russ, DHS BS and lies need to be challenged.

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 8th, 2008 @ 3:35pm

   
   

   I do think its crap that DHS can search any electronic device it sees fit, for any reason. A smart person would just upload what ever it is they had to a server, then download it once they got to there destination, how are they going to combat that? Someone needs to over see the DHS policies and NOT the people that wrote them, like may hmmmmmm.... JUDGES?!

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   Jake, Aug 8th, 2008 @ 4:06pm

   
   

   It's probably small comfort, but unless some REMF introduces a quota, I suspect that few Border Patrol officers will waste their time and energy on searching laptops without a compelling reason to do so. Honestly, your biggest problem is not the fact that the odd Border Patrol officer whose idea of a compelling reason is 'he looked like an Arab' is harder to reprimand; it's the fact that just subscribing to a particular set of values, however abhorrent those values may be, is now an indictable offence in the first country in the world to make a real go of democracy.

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   Feingold is the man

   

   Wendy M, Aug 8th, 2008 @ 4:20pm

   
   

   Yes, Dan. Keep voting him in!
   
   As someone who lives several states away, I've been a great pleasure when Feingold responds to issues from misplaced Wisconsinites.
   
   It would be nice if my own state's Senators Kay Bailey and John Cornyn took as much interest in what was happening around America.

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    Rekrul, Aug 8th, 2008 @ 4:30pm

    
    

    Rig your laptop so that as soon as you login, it starts playing 2 Girls, 1 Cup and can't be used until the video has played in its entirety.

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    Laptop Searches

    

    Known Coward, Aug 8th, 2008 @ 6:05pm

    
    

    DHS can kiss my ass.

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    DHS/probable cause/searches

    

    Glenn Charles, Aug 9th, 2008 @ 4:52am

    
    

    It is after all under the umbrella of the original National Security Act. Faith in politicians, or press releases? really.
    --Glenn

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    Re:

    

    Dustin, Aug 9th, 2008 @ 11:19am

    
    

    ... then who would I vote for in my Senate race? :(

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    Chartoffs a liar . . . .

    

    Anonymous Coward, Aug 11th, 2008 @ 12:35pm

    
    

    Well he is a Bush appointee, so we know he wasn’t chosen for his competence, thats just not how they roll.

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