Comment Re:A start (Score 4, Funny) 199
...but wake me up when it can use sucrose.
Why do you hate America? It needs to use corn syrup.
...but wake me up when it can use sucrose.
Why do you hate America? It needs to use corn syrup.
at least if enough people get pissed, the pols can be voted out.
That's true in theory, but re-election rates versus Congressional approval ratings seem to disprove it in practice.
I'm pretty big on civil liberties, and stories like this don't exactly make me comfortable, but at the end of the day the border guys have a tough job. Hundreds of thousands of people entering the country, they get a minute or two to decide if something is amiss. Should they have unlimited powers? No. However, I think there's a case to be made that if you want to enter a country you are not entitled to due-process in it's entirety.
In terms of it being a fourth amendment issue
This kind of opinion is precisely why we continue to see the erosion of our rights in the US.
Suspending constitutional rights because "their job is hard" is bullshit. The border agents can suck it up and do their jobs the right way. If that means I have an order of magnitude higher chance of dying from a terrorist attack, so be it - it would still be multiple orders of magnitude lower chance than dying of many other things like cancer, heart disease, or car accidents.
NSA has proven that they can circumvent technologies which people had thought to be secure.
crooks can break into locked cars too, but i wouldn't advise people leave their cars unlocked
It is unfortunate that we are forced to treat government officials tasked with our protection in the same manner as criminals who are out to harm us. It demonstrates just how far our government has fallen. The only questions now are how much farther it has to fall before the public at large finally resolves to do something about it and whether it can still be done through peaceful means when that happens.
Also, their is something wrong with your value system, culture, education system or some combination there of; if the mention of a bunch of white males as inventors and discovers of computer science offends you.
Historically speaking, it should offend you because it's wrong.
"Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core." -- Hannah Arendt.
