Re: [privacy] Warrentless Border Laptop Searches Upheld by U.S Court

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

-- "Dennis Henderson" <hendomatic () gmail com> wrote:

> At the border there is no presumption of innocence. If there were,
> there would be no random searches needed, right? In your world,
> we're all innocent until we deliver the drugs or press the button
> on the briefcase.

Actually, I just hate empty cacthphrases like "innocent until
proven guilty" -- if the U.S. legal system doesn't adhere to the
basic tenets that it professes, then it shouldn't pretend that they
are true.

The part of that whole court decision isn't about the guy who
insitgated it -- he deserved what he got. I am in no way defending
him.

It's about all of us -- those of us who haven't committed any crimes,
and do not deserved to treated as criminals in the absence of proof
to the contrary.

Like I said before, it rubs me the wrong way.

- ferg

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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