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Porschenut1066 Donating Member (348 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 03:28 AM
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100 mile non constitutional zone around US borders
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Edited on Mon Nov-03-08 03:35 AM by Porschenut1066
The Homeland security site appears to say that they have imposed a 100 mile non constitutional coverage area from any US border point.
So all US constitutional rights or Bill of Rights protections do not apply to US or non US citizens and the border patrol or any federal authority can without probable cause: Stop and search your car, luggage, person. Arrest you without telling you why you are being arrested. Prevent you from calling anyone to tell them you have been arrested. Prevent you from getting a lawyer. Put you in front of a military tribunal where the normal rules of evidence do not apply and hearsay evidence is enough to convict you. To sentence you to life in prison without the right of appeal.

This is bad enough but it now suggests that the 100 mile zone may be applied to the areas surrounding International Airports!
Is there any part of the United States that is more than 100 miles from either a border or an international Airport?
This looks like a very handy way to invalidate every single US citizen of their constitutional rights.

I know that currently Homeland Security is only enforcing this non constitutional zone in the zones within 100 miles of actual physical borders like Mexico and Canada and Florida but according to the site they could at any moment of their choosing decide that the 100 mile area around the International Airports will be enforced since that has already been authorized.

Has anyone else noticed this very disturbing and yet un publicized restriction on our civil liberties that has it seems only been quietly published on the Homeland Security site and then mostly in bits and pieces that is hard to follow?

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/aclu-assails-10.html

I will get the Homeland Security link in the AM for you.
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