Congress should review laptop searches

Hey Terrorists!

SB wants you to stuff your laptops full of explosives, drugs, bioweapons, or any other nasty thing you can think of to kill lots of Americans!

Praise Allah! Praise the Star Bulletin!

Did you also catch on how they are also trying to protect the rights of child pornographers? Keep your pants on kiddies! The editors are leering at you!

The technically challenged could get digital data across borders with only minor inconvenience. There are a plethora of internet sites where data may be uploaded for later download by anyone. The data may be encrypted and password protected. The amount of data that is currently legitimately passed in this manner precludes the screening by authorities.
The taking and retaining of laptops is just another erosion of rights.
This administration is drunk on power!

Newtowner wrote:

The technically challenged could get digital data across borders with only minor inconvenience. There are a plethora of internet sites where data may be uploaded for later download by anyone. The data may be encrypted and password protected. The amount of data that is currently legitimately passed in this manner precludes the screening by authorities.
The taking and retaining of laptops is just another erosion of rights.
This administration is drunk on power!

Amen to this poster. There are any number of ways that either a pornographer or terrorist or any other lawbreaker could cross our borders electronically. Why run the risk of having it on your person.
Bush just likes to snoop on the American public. Too bad he can't put forth the same effort in capturing Bin Laden.

anyone with an "Obama in 08" button needs to have their devices confiscated, lord knows what kind of socialist junk they contain.

If you have nothing to hide you should support these efforts by our government by turning in your laptop and all storage devices right now. Don't wait till you go on a trip. That way when all the true Americans have done so it will be easy to just arrest the rest of you terrorist sympathizers. After all the constitution was written so long ago. We cant let some old piece of paper get in the way of our pursuit of freedom haters.

The government is intending to treat laptops just like any other piece of luggage. I've been in and out of the country hundreds of times. Sometimes customs goes through my bags, sometimes they don't. But they always have the right to. I don't ever remember complaining about them "invading my privacy" while they rummaged through my underwear nor did I feel I had an "expectation of privacy". If you have something illegal on your laptop I sure hope customs does look at it.

The Bush Administration has violated our rights repeatedly for seven years and the Congress is so afraid of him that they let G.W. Bush do whatever he pleases.

Wiretapping of millions of innocent Americans, without a court order, for no reason, is but one way that he has trampled on our rights, and abandoned our Constitution, a document that called "just a God-damned piece of paper."

And now he wants to confiscate and look at the contents of laptop computers of anyone and everyone who wants to cross the border, with no cause? He's un-American. He's not playing with a full deck.

His famous "lists," of those who voted against him, those who speak out against him, or protested his illegal and immoral acts, are other good examples of what borders on fascism.

The day after CNN reported about the ONE MILLION PLUS Americans on the "American terrorist watch list," the CNN reporter who did that story was added to the list and stopped at an airport.

How long can America tolerate this fascist-leaning administration? Must we wait until his term ends? Do we have to wait for foreigners to charge and try him in a war crimes trial? Why won't the U.S. House of Representatives impeach him? It's not too late.

Keith Haugen
Nu`uanu

P.S. Good editorial

By all you BushDerangement lefties advice, the US would not have been able to prevent 9-11. Most of those peace loving Muslims did not break any laws with regards to terrorism. There would have been no probable cause.

To listen to you clowns is to invite another bigger attack not only not even trying to defend ourselves but telling the terrorists, here's what we won't do. Osamas 9-11 instructions specifically said, fit in, shave your beard, do American things. They aren't stupid.

You are like the British soldiers who were too proud to duck behind a tree when fighting the guerrilla Americans. They would stand in their best outfits and wigs, all in a line, and fire away until they were all dead.

Honorable to the last heartbeat.

This is not a police enforcement effort. We have to catch them in the planning stages. That will take some loss of civil rights. It's a new world thanks to the Muslim terrorists. Your anger should be directed at the Muslim extremists and the silent 1 billion Muslims. They are to blame for any and all loss of civil liberties today.

Keith Haugen wrote:

The Bush Administration has violated our rights repeatedly for seven years and the Congress is so afraid of him that they let G.W. Bush do whatever he pleases.
Wiretapping of millions of innocent Americans, without a court order, for no reason, is but one way that he has trampled on our rights, and abandoned our Constitution, a document that called "just a God-damned piece of paper."
And now he wants to confiscate and look at the contents of laptop computers of anyone and everyone who wants to cross the border, with no cause? He's un-American. He's not playing with a full deck.
His famous "lists," of those who voted against him, those who speak out against him, or protested his illegal and immoral acts, are other good examples of what borders on fascism.
The day after CNN reported about the ONE MILLION PLUS Americans on the "American terrorist watch list," the CNN reporter who did that story was added to the list and stopped at an airport.
How long can America tolerate this fascist-leaning administration? Must we wait until his term ends? Do we have to wait for foreigners to charge and try him in a war crimes trial? Why won't the U.S. House of Representatives impeach him? It's not too late.
Keith Haugen
Nu`uanu
P.S. Good editorial

HE he he he he Bush Bush Bush...

For one man (and an idiot to boot) he sure has a far reach. I am sure he picked up the phone one day, called TSA and said start confiscating laptops.

You liberals need to get a grip on reality and stop blaming every single thing on Bush. As to losing your "rights" how about your right NOT to be blown to smitheriens by a terrorist? Seems he has done a good job of protecting that right.

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