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Old 08-08-2008, 07:03 AM   #55
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Originally Posted by acidzebra View Post
"Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing"

I can't believe people are accepting this so meekly. I also don't see why you should expect to get your stuff back, ever. Because they certainly aren't telling you when (if ever) they will return it. How is confiscating stuff regardless of suspicion of wrongdoing (in essence, whatever and whenever the border guard guy feels like screwing with you) reasonable? What if he just has a bad day?
Amen and welcome to the Gulag. Yeah, that's overstating things a bit, but we put up with things that our great-grandfathers would have been loading up the deer rifles about.
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