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Federal Judge Limits DHS Laptop Border Searches
Declan McCullogh is reporting at CNET that a federal district court judge has rebuked the Department of Homeland Security, "which had claimed it can seize a traveler's laptop and search it six months later without warrant." As described in the article, DHS policies have been stacked against travelers entering the US, including citizens returning from abroad: "There's no requirement that they be returned to their owners after even six months or a year has passed, though supervisory approval is required if they're held for more than 15 days. The complete contents of a hard drive or memory card can be perused at length for evidence of lawbreaking of any kind, even if it's underpaying taxes or not paying parking tickets." This ruling does not address immediate searches at the border, but says that DHS cannot hold computers for indefinite searching, as in the case to hand, concerning a US citizen returning from a trip to Korea, whose laptop was seized and held for months before a search was even conducted on it.
unless you are self employed the option is for a Company to either offer you health care or your company pay a fine to decline it.
Given that health insurance companies want someone earning $30,000 to pay $15,000 a year for health care is the real problem. What's worse is that the person earning $100,000+ a earn pays less than $5,000 for even better coverage.
1 in 6 American's are currently without health insurance, some are by choice but for most the choice was made by health insurance companies that won't provide any affordable benefits unless your earning a minimum of 40k a year person person in a married couple.
the republican's refused to talk about that part.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Actually, we already tried that. George W Bush did a much worse job than Obama is doing.
On that note... BushorChimp.com
Get over your pompous self. And get over calling Godwin like a child in their first thread.
Why don't you instead see what the other poster is trying to point out, that YOU connected this thread to Nazis, if anyone did, by making the argument that what the government says is right simply by definition. That gets you to "just following orders" pretty quickly.
Why do you think taxation isn't theft, not why it might be justified, but that it's not theft, other than some tautological nonsense about the government declaring it not to be?
As the other poster pointed out, governments can say a lot of crazy things...