Most alarming thing I've read this year

(From a CNN.com piece on the search and seizure of electronic devices by US Customs)

Russ Knocke, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, equates searches of electronic devices to those of papers in briefcases.

'You forgo your right to privacy when you are seeking admission into the country,' he says. 'This is the kind of scrutiny the American public expects.'"

Just so I have it straight: to preserve our freedom, we need to give up our freedoms. Is that right?

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