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Posteritatis

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22. Exactly how paranoid are you willing to get about stuff like this?

Reply to Confusious (Reply #17)

Fri Jul 6, 2012, 05:41 PM

Jul 2012

What if they shield it enough that even the current detectors might not notice? Should we be okay with manually searching vehicles then?

Or is the current level okay, and we should just be requiring people to pay extra for documentation saying they've had utterly routine medical procedures and should not be presumed to be terrorists because of it?

Oh, but wait - the terrorists could forge such documentation, so maybe we need to take things a little further!

So how far? Can you show us the point at which it becomes unreasonable? Is there such a point?

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Ex-Arizona governor detained at border checkpoint [View all] CreekDog Jul 2012 OP

A very nice gentleman. Fridays Child Jul 2012 #1

Cool story! 3 blocks from where I lived there! CreekDog Jul 2012 #2

Really? That's cool. Fridays Child Jul 2012 #3

I thought this news was already posted in LBN a week or two ago. Tx4obama Jul 2012 #4

AH. The Latest-Breaking-News Police panzerfaust Jul 2012 #7

The ACLU of Arizona was kind of stupid Confusious Jul 2012 #5

I hear you. Eugenian Jul 2012 #6

people don't realize that Arizona had some good politicians CreekDog Jul 2012 #10

#1 JonLP24 Jul 2012 #28

If a radiation alarm goes off because someone recently had contrast dyes, it's too sensitive. (nt) Posteritatis Jul 2012 #13

Depends on how you look at it Confusious Jul 2012 #17

Exactly how paranoid are you willing to get about stuff like this? Posteritatis Jul 2012 #22

The question is moot Confusious Jul 2012 #23

where does the constitution enter into things? you said border patrol could do whatever they liked" CreekDog Jul 2012 #27

Try reading. It helps. Confusious Jul 2012 #29

Here in Fargo there is a car dealership owned by a Lyndon Johnson. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #8

He could be the Rosa PARKS against the AZ law, but he doesn't complain: UTUSN Jul 2012 #9

His detention had nothinmg to do with the Arizona law. totodeinhere Jul 2012 #11

but he was stopped even though he never LEFT THE USA CreekDog Jul 2012 #12

Yes, but that still doesn't mean that it had anything to do with the law passed totodeinhere Jul 2012 #16

Arizona and new Mexico have stops Confusious Jul 2012 #18

Oh yes, I lived in Arizona, I know...my friend with darker skin CreekDog Jul 2012 #20

If we lived in a perfect world Confusious Jul 2012 #25

I have learned his officeholder resume since this story broke, don't know his personal UTUSN Jul 2012 #15

He has no case against the state law Confusious Jul 2012 #19

border officers cannot "do what they like" --what a ridiculous post CreekDog Jul 2012 #21

They have more discretion in what they can do Confusious Jul 2012 #24

I am sure that Raul Castro, roody Jul 2012 #14

my mom has been detained like that d_r Jul 2012 #26