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Only an Idiot is “Shocked” that the FedGov Violates Civil Rights

11 Thursday Jul 2019

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Of course, we have a multitude of idiots in Amerika. I’m sure most see no problem at all with tossing the Bill of Rights.

If you’re traveling outside the United States this summer you might want to rethink taking your electronics along. Government agents have been detaining American citizens without arrest, searching, and in some cases downloading the entire contents of phones, tablets, laptops, and other devices. And this all happens without a warrant or access to an attorney.

“The border has become a rights-free zone for Americans who have to travel,” Senator Ron Wyden said in a statement to TAC. “The founders never could have imagined that the government would be able to sift through your entire digital life, from pictures to emails and even where you’ve been, just because you decide to take a vacation or travel for work.”

Border searches of electronic devices have exploded at an exponential rate in recent years: in 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) searched over 33,295 smartphones, laptops, and other electronic devices; up nine percent from fiscal year 2017 and over six times the number searched in 2012. And that’s just the statistics from CBP; Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not maintain records of the number of electronic device searches it conducts.

“The government is accessing all your private data,” Sophia Cope, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), told TAC. These “deeply intrusive” searches of electronic devices “reveal a lot about you: your emails, contacts, bank history, internet searches, medical history, social media usage, and political beliefs.”

A clear and clean strategy suggests itself. While citizens are locked in cages and searched and threatened, foreign invaders freely cross into the country, without hindrance and even with the assistance of the feds.

Your Papers, Please

12 Tuesday Mar 2019

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Planning a trip to old Europe? Make it sooner than later or else you’ll need some extra paperwork.

Americans traveling to Europe will soon have to add a new item to their packing lists.

Starting in 2021, the European Union will require US visitors to get a pre-approved, visa-like travel pass issued by the European Travel Information and Authorization System.

The permit will cost about $7.90 and will have to be requested at least four days before the journey—making romantic last-minute jaunts to Paris impossible.

But permission will be good for three years and for multiple trips in and out of the Schengen Zone, which covers 26 countries.

Under current rules, Americans can travel in Europe without a visa for up to 90 days.

The new requirement will serve as a security check, EU officials said Friday.

Undocumented “minors,” “refugee” “women and children,” all of them, fleeing “war and oppression” are welcomed to walk on in. You? You need a Visa.

This is the product of a breakdown between the idiotic, globalist EU and the idiotic, globalist USE. A handful of Schengen countries are playing hardball on accepting “refugees.” The EU isn’t happy and put pressure on the USE to act. The USE didn’t do enough, fast enough. So, this.

I’d expect a tit for tat from DC and the beginning of a severe tightening of travel liberty between the old world and the new. Think about how that might work out for you and people like you in Europe. The goal, I think, is to eventually eliminate travel (and migration) between the Old and the New, as both sink deeper into the Homoglobo abyss. ***The “refugees” will be unaffected, worry not…***

Don’t Cruise Cuba, Don’t Suborn Theft

25 Monday Jun 2018

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Everyone I know, with maybe one exception, that has journeyed to Cuban has been disappointed. Still, I foresee the cruise liner set will still keep going, still keep eating, drinking, “playing,” showing off the tats, gracing the rest with that not-so-unique American obesity. And, yeah, those Cubans from the man on the dock, wrapped in cellophane, in the plexiglass-topped box, are real – real in that they physically exist…

The US Department of Justice [SIC] and some guy in England see the new travel ventures differently.

The United States government knows him as certified foreign claim number CU-2492. But he wants to make a more personal introduction to Tampa Bay.

He is Mickael Behn, a 43-year-old U.S. citizen residing in England, where he works in television production.

And, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, Behn is the rightful owner of Havana Harbor, the cruise ship terminal for Cuba’s capital city.

The harbor was taken from Behn’s family when the socialist government nationalized property without compensation.

So, Behn said, those who book a cruise from Port Tampa Bay to Havana support illegal activity. “This is an American crime on an American corporation,” he said. “Don’t go to Havana.”

The nonprofit Cuban Democratic Directorate recently put up billboards near Port Miami and is running radio ads that say those booking cruises to Cuba support the trafficking of stolen property.

How many damned offices, agencies, and programs can one government have?! Geeze.

Family from Cuba. Theft in Cuba. “American” living in England… I fail to see how this… Nevermind.

This case is especially interesting to a man whose family’s land was similarly confiscated by soldiers, at gunpoint, and without compensation. Do we get a claim? I think I already know the answer there. America and its laws are now for Cubans living in England. Got it.

It used to be a place for Englanders living in America. They’re, we’re completely out of fashion now. Even Laura Ingalls Wilder. She was an author. That is, for the new “Americans” and the tubby, tatted cruisers, someone who produces books. Books are the things they are tossing from libraries. Libraries are buildings taking up real estate needed for more sports watching venues, women’s African diversity centers, buffets, and tattoo shops.

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Surprises on the Road

09 Thursday Mar 2017

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Wow. What a day! Took the show on the road again today around 4 AM.

1) The traffic report:

I-20, I-95, I-10, I-75, all U.S. Highways, and all side roads are all in terrible shape. Every single mile is under construction, blocked with clover wrecks, and prowled by the Po-Po. Abandon all hope. Stay home.

2) “Check Engine”. On a 500-mile trip! Awesome. I did, she looked fine – if a little dusty.

3) Got into the Southern Command and discovered my auto-post selections from last night did not work. Thanks, Word Press! Now I look as drunk as the Russian with the magic nuclear moles….

All better now.

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The Davidoff Effect makes everything okay!

The Other Travel Ban

03 Friday Feb 2017

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The IRS may be coming for your passport.

President Trump’s executive order on travel may be generating big protests, but an IRS missive on travel and passports may not go down too well either. More than a year ago, in H.R.22, Congress gave the IRS a new weapon to collect taxes. Tax code Section 7345 is labeled, “Revocation or Denial of Passport in Case of Certain Tax Delinquencies.” The law isn’t limited to criminal tax cases, or even cases where the IRS thinks you are trying to flee. The idea of the law is to use travel as a way to enforce tax collections. It was proposed and rejected in 2012. But by late 2015, Congress passed it and President Obama signed it.

Now, over a year later, the IRS has finally released new details on its website. If you have seriously delinquent tax debt, IRS can notify the State Department. The State Department generally will not issue or renew a passport after receiving certification from the IRS. The IRS has not yet started certifying tax debt to the State Department. The IRS says certifications will begin in early 2017, and the IRS website will be updated to indicate when this process has been implemented.

This has the potential to affect about 8,000,000 taxpayers at present. And anyone is subject to IRS persecution, even if they owe no taxes nor earn income. This has the potential to prevent many Americans from freely, legally leaving the country. It is a travel ban.

The law will require IRS regulations to implement, perhaps some from State as well. One wonders which existing regs they plan to cut in order to make way for the new ones.

One may also wonders when the crazed hippies and communists will take to the streets in violent protest of this real injustice. My guess would be “never”.