On Sat, May 3, 2008 9:41 am, Doug LaRue wrote: > ** Reply to message from "Lan Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 3 May > 2008 > 08:01:04 -0700 (PDT) > >> But is the Border Patrol aware that while in, say, Mexico, I can put an >> FTP site up on a home computer with a nonstandard port, come over, and >> then download the files to my heart's content? > > this whole thing probably stems from how the US police have many times > used the cell phone contacts of convicted criminals as a way to get more > of the bad guys/gals. This, in a simple mind would lead you to believe > that > they'll find worthy data in anyones phones or laptops so they think they > have the right to collect such data. As you pointed out, stuff taught in > highschool makes it very easy to move data across the border and anyone > with anything incriminating or terrorist related being found in a > collected > device at the border is extreme luck and actually unlikely. I can only > guess > that they do this not to the average citizen but to those they know have > drug ties, gang ties, or ties to other criminal activities. > > It's a fine line and one easily crossed on the way to outright > infringement > of legal rights under the constitution. But at the same time, providing > proof > for the reason for the search would also expose tactics used to verify a > criminal activity.... It's a tough one especially given how the current > Admin > and congress has constantly stomped on our constitutional rights in the > name of the 9/11 event and protecting the US people. > > I'm not quite ready to be strapping a memory card to my wang yet. > > Doug >
All this and its incredible expense goes away if you decriminalize drugs, including producing and selling (with appropriate taxes etc ;) We are a very stupid country. BTW, there are probably people on this list young enough not to remember when dirty movies and books were a go-to-jail crime. Such masterminds of fiendish subversion as Hugh Heffner so destroyed the moral fabric of this ocuntry that I myself can hardly wait to go rape someone. But it'll have to wait until the weekend. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
