Should the US border patrol be able to seize your property without any

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte…8080103030.html

Is this a violation of our rights or is this practice reasonable?

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Is this a violation of our rights

Yes.

…Next question please?

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Yes.

…Next question please?

The only other questions I could ask would be about how far the government should be allowed to intrude in on our civil liberties. I’d like to see what others here might have to say about this particular topic.

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Have you read Ayn Rand?

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Is this a violation of our rights or is this practice reasonable?

Yes it is and no it isn’t, in that order.

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Have you read Ayn Rand?

Yes, I’ve read The Fountainhead, The Virtue of Selfishness, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, and Philosophy: Who Needs It.

Obviously this is a gross violation of our rights. It’s just so hard to believe that something like this is really happening here.

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Maybe it would help if you were more specific as to what you are asking. If you have already read Rand, then the answers to your original questions should be obvious (as you last confirmed). Is there something you are actually looking to explore or did you just want to share this new article with the forum members?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte…8080103030.html

Is this a violation of our rights or is this practice reasonable?

Of course it’s a violation of our rights, and it sprouts full-grown out of modern illiberal political ideology and phylosophy that makes every man a criminal because there are some men that are criminals. Conservatives and liberals alike believe that it is necessary to limit the freedom of all, for the possibility of confounding a miniscule minority.

You see it’s much easier for those who will not believe in right and wrong, to castigate all instead of punishing real evil.

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The policies cover “any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form,”

…I wonder if they can detain my brain…it’s an anaolog device right?

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Note the precedent:

Customs Deputy Commissioner Jayson P. Ahern said the efforts “do not infringe on Americans’ privacy.” In a statement submitted to Feingold for a June hearing on the issue, he noted that the executive branch has long had “plenary authority to conduct routine searches and seizures at the border without probable cause or a warrant” to prevent drugs and other contraband from entering the country.

Its the long drug war that set up this long slide down the slippery slope to statism.

In rational and just society, only stolen goods and those used in a criminal act could be considered contraband.