I’m all here for this
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Be vigilant and know your rights if you are flying through ATL. This is shady as hell.
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This is so unsurprising.
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And you know who is going to get targeted with this stuff
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Probable cause?
The skin is brown. That’s all that’s needed in America.
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Story time: in the year after 9/11, there were security agents set up at the gates that would do “random” searches of bags.
I flew a bunch in the summer of 2002 because I was in a long distance relationship at the time. I got picked for these searches at least once on every round trip. That shit wasn’t random at all.
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Brother, I’ve also been selected quite a few times “randomly” — especially when it’s international flights. They were all up in my bag at CDG.
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I think TSA, as soon as you’re past security, can operate in reasonable suspicion (I think). Port police and federal agents can do the same thing when you’re within their “jurisdiction” or at least that’s what we were told in the academy.
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CBP claims a 100 mile exclusion zone from any US border. This allows cbp and federal agents far more permissive ability to conduct warrantless searches and the like in that area. So for instance the entire state of Michigan is an exclusion zone, as is the area about 200+ million Americans live in.
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How nice.
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If there is a government agency I would love to see Republicans cripple and lasso their power, it’s definitely CBP. Unfortuntely, they won’t.
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Then there is no Fourth Amendment.
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That’s wild. How can the west side of the state be considered part of that? It’s well over 100 miles to an international border where I live, unless they include lake Michigan in “coastal” because it connects to lake Huron (is one body of water) which is an international border.
But by that logic, 100 miles east and west of the Mississippi could be an exclusion zone all the way north to Minnesota.
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That seems to indicate they classify Lake Michigan as international in some way. Without that, there’s no way the eastern shore of Wisconsin is included.
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It connects to Huron so I’m assuming it’s the logic that someone/thing could enter and traverse the lakes etc.
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Personally, I’m glad the entire state of Florida is included. Florida Man must be stopped.
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The Constitution is just some words on some old paper.
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