Court Approves Airport Laptop Searches - No Probable Cause N

[Pastor Matt]

I really do not care if they search my laptop. In fact someone just may get a good dose of the gospel by searching it.

[HappyChristian]

This isn't happening in every airport. It is customs...coming into the country. And it doesn't happen all the time. It may now, thanks to the child pornographer. No-one I know who has travelled with a laptop has had it searched at a regular airport. Other countries may not charge a fee, but they do search - and quite a number have armed guards...

[John81]

I wouldn't care if someone saw what was on my computer either, however it's an invasion of privacy for them to search the computer in this way; a violation of the Constitution and the basic rights of an American citizen.

[Guest Guest]

Ahh! The good ol' USA and it's freedoms.

slipping,
slipping,
dwindling away one small piece at a time, hardly noticable yet not really bothering to some------------ until it's too late.

[HappyChristian]

Ahh! The good ol' USA and it's freedoms.

slipping,
slipping,
dwindling away one small piece at a time, hardly noticable yet not really bothering to some------------ until it's too late.

That's just it, mk...it does bother me. But at the same time I am torn. This happened to someone coming back into the country. Not at a rank and file airport, coming from a US city. Customs has always searched things, and rightly so, as people come into the country. It is done everywhere, not just here. I am not so sure I look at this a violation of American rights. It is kind of a muddy issue.

[Guest Guest]

That's just it, mk...it does bother me. But at the same time I am torn. This happened to someone coming back into the country. Not at a rank and file airport, coming from a US city. Customs has always searched things, and rightly so, as people come into the country. It is done everywhere, not just here. I am not so sure I look at this a violation of American rights. It is kind of a muddy issue.

I know what you're saying HC. It is/can be a muddy issue for now.

However, I believe the government of this country will continue to erode our privacy bit by bit, here a little and there a little, ever trying to keep it as un-noticeable as possible; and with the majority of this country happy with having their beer, porn, and games to occupy their time, they will just learn through time to accept the loss of privacy for the keeping of the "leisures".

security, terrorism, and threats will be the playing cards and excuses to "warrant" the loss of freedoms and privacy in this country. Like I said, this issue of the laptop search-- is really small by comparison, but can ( and i believe) like other situations be used as stepping stones.

[John81]

How is this a muddy issue? They have no right to search the laptop and no good reason for doing so.

It's interesting just how much things have changed over the years and what people are willing to accept now that folks only a few short years ago would have never tolerated.