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Old 04-08-2011, 08:25 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by CRussel View Post
Let's be clear, FF2. When you cross into the US, border guards can seize pretty much anything they want, and subject you to just about anything they want to subject you to. And you have essentially no recourse. That is the nature of borders, and the US border is perhaps more annoyingly arbitrary and autocratic than most. I have dual US citizenship, so I at least have a right to enter the US. But that doesn't mean I do so without being subject to search and seizure.
Yes, crossing the border is the second-worst thing to happen to SF author Peter Watts recently:

http://boingboing.net/2010/04/26/pet...s-wont-go.html

Be sure to look at the "previous" links.

(The worst thing to happen to him recently was a bit of necrotizing fasciitis)
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