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Judge Allows Bradley Manning Supporter To Sue Government Over Border Search
Fluffeh writes "David Maurice House, an MIT researcher and Bradley Manning supporter, was granted the right to pursue a case against the government on Wednesday after a federal judge denied the government's motion to dismiss. 'This ruling affirms that the Constitution is still alive at the US border,' ACLU Staff Attorney Catherine Crump said in a statement. 'Despite the government's broad assertions that it can take and search any laptop, diary or smartphone without any reasonable suspicion, the court said the government cannot use that power to target political speech.' The agents confiscated a laptop computer, a thumb drive, and a digital camera from House and reportedly demanded, but did not receive, his encryption keys. DHS held onto House's equipment for 49 days and returned it only after the ACLU sent a strongly worded letter."
For change.
"Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost." ~ V.I. Lenin
Not only that, but it's meanIngless since everyone holds the DHS in contempt.
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
He's got a strongly worded letter!
Amendments are obviously written in order of importance. Border searches are more important than the 4th amendment but less than the 1st. I think that it in fact lies somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd amendments in terms of importance.
No, but I can point you to the many strongly-worded letters I've sent to politicians, manufacturers, restaurants, and TV Guide, concerning various topics. They're all excellent examples of strongly-worded letters that had no effect.
If being in contempt of DHS was punishable, we would all be in jail.
They are working on that.
Be seeing you...
Oh shit, that means I have to give up alcohol!
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
Yes We Can !
da da da dum indeed.
Return his equipment OR ELSE.....!
We'll put you in the COMFY CHAIR!
Wait a minute! Doesn't this mean if they copy the contents then they may be pirating software, films, and music? .
Someone call the RIAA, maybe these two behemoths can bludgeon each other to death over a long drawn out battle and leave the rest of us the fuck alone for a while.
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As an Englishman, I can obtusely say that that's no strongly worded letter.
Where's the wit? The wow-words? The insulting, demeaning tone? The hidden threats?
And, at five pages, that novel was four pages too long.
God save the Queen.
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See, I've always recommended this map, also by the ACLU, that shows exactly where in the US your civil liberties are being protected properly.
I am officially gone from