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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Now .... as you and Milarepa are so blindingly brilliant ... then answer two very simple questions ....
1. Do you agree with the article when it states that there "the executive branch's long-held authority to conduct routine searches at the border for purposes of seizing drugs and other contraband. That authority is vitally important for our national security and public safety" Yes or No??
2. Do you agree that in the digital age, contraband can be in a digital form and kept on computers?? Yes or No.
If no to either of those questions, then .... I'd love to know how you formed that opinion.
If yes to either of those questions, then given that you do not wish to see Customs have the ability to search for the contraband, what do you propose should be done??
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"Objection, your Honor, the question is argumentative."
Question 1 makes some wild assumptions of fact first and foremost "That authority is vitally important for our national security and public safety" that is a matter of opinion and can neither be proved nor disproved in any real way. I do not believe that that authority is VITALY important to national security or public safety.
The answer to question #2 of course is yes, but seeing as how the question to number #1 is a matter of opinion it invalidates question #2, so that question becomes irrelevant.
As I have continually stated, I simply believe that the government has overstepped its bounds, and they have done this by passing laws that enable them to do this. Are they within their legal right to "search" whatever they would like at the border? The answer appears to be yes. Are we comfortable that they are within their legal right to do this? I for one am not! I would prefer that the government get out of people's lives, I would prefer that the federal government were not centralizing greater and greater authority and that states rights would become, once again, a respected tradition. This government is on a dangerous course, and it is past time that we stand up and say, stop! Stop supporting places like Guantanamo Bay, stop passing laws that trample on civil rights, stop passing laws that ignore basic principles of privacy, stop ignoring all of these things by claiming that it is in the interest of national security. Some people will claim that all of these laws only affect the bad guys, so it shouldn't matter to us, we should be happy that the government is protecting us. My fear is how the government classifies who the bad guys are, I don't trust them to do this fairly, and in fact fear that that is an ever widening circle of innocents.