DHS declares Search and Seizure rights inside 100 miles of USA border
The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation’s borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever — all in the name of national security.
The DHS, which secures the nation’s border, in 2009 announced that it would conduct a “Civil Liberties Impact Assessment” of its suspicionless search-and-seizure policy pertaining to electronic devices “within 120 days.” More than three years later, the DHS office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties published a two-page executive summary of its findings.
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The President George W. Bush administration first announced the suspicionless, electronics search rules in 2008. The President Barack Obama administration followed up with virtually the same rules a year later. Between 2008 and 2010, 6,500 persons had their electronic devices searched along the U.S. border, according to DHS data.
According to legal precedent, the Fourth Amendment — the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures — does not apply along the border. By the way, the government contends the Fourth-Amendment-Free Zone stretches 100 miles inland from the nation’s actual border.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/electronics-border-seizures/
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Since the Constitution no longer applies to San Diego, Detroit, Buffalo and many other places? 
So what is a fool who cares about our democracy to do? 
Next they are going to expand that to 250 miles from the boarder than 1000 miles.. Than everything from one boarder to another...
And that is the 4th amendment being stripped away more by another department of U.S. Government.
Expect to be subject to search and seizure anywhere in Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine or Florida...
Them too. 
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Our repressive overlords do not like that.
You and your family could be peacefully driving home or be on vacation anywhere in the state and be stopped.
It angers me so much I can't even articulate my thoughts. 
- snip - The government has long been able to search people entering and exiting the country without need to say why, which is known as the border search exception of the Fourth Amendment.
After 9/11, Congress gave the Department of Homeland Security the right to use some of its powers deeper within the country, and now DHS has set up at least 33 internal checkpoints where they stop people, question them and ask them to prove citizenship, according to the ACLU.
"It is a classic example of law enforcement powers expanding far beyond their proper boundaries – in this case, literally,” said Caroline Fredrickson, who heads the ACLU’s Washington, D.C., Legislative Office.
The ACLU says it has scores of complaints from citizens and wants Congress to investigate and roll back the buffer zone. According to a map the rights group released Wednesday, some 190 million citizens live within what the ACLU dubs the "Constitution-free Zone."
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/10/aclu-assails-10/
You know the old adage? Given them an inch and they'll take a mile?
Don't misread this- I am very pissed off about the theft of our civil liberties, but if we can't afford meals on wheels for old people, how can we afford this shit???
if you're not doing anything wrong, there's nothing to worry about and besides it is to keep YOU safe.
that 100 mile swathe DHL is claiming.
I guess I live in a Bill of Rights Free Zone. Hmmm.... I can't find that zone mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. My copy must be defective or somethign.
I voted for Obama twice so this shit would STOP
