i feel like they were actual DEA agents, but took your **** off the book or maybe reported less than they actually took. otherwise i'm not sure airport security would have ID'd them as legit.

It's THROUGH. Threw is a verb, like, I threw the ball like a bitch. If it had happened once, ok. But you obviously need help with this.

lol...

Same here dave. Flew to vegas back when we were in that negotiations class and they didn't want me emptying cash rolls from my pockets.

You do realize that Canada Customs is run by Canada Customs and taxation Revenue Canada (our version of the IRS for you americans) and Canada Customs=Revenue Canada.

You may love Canada just make sure you fill out an accurate and detailed tax return this year or future years. I can promise you that the guy wasn't interested in how much money you were making because he thought it was cool that you were a poker player.

I had no idea Canadians were so smurf-like in their nomenclature.

you teach english to ESL students, Possum?...how much do you charge? 1 DOLLA?

This is very true and very scary indeed...and it goes beyond laptops...they have the right, and have been excercising it very liberally recently, to examine any and all of your electronic devices, including your PDA, blackberry, iPhone, cell phone, and digital camera... they typically take a COMPLETE copy of your electronic device, if and when they become suspicious.... remember, if you do carry a large sum and they stop you, there is a chance they may think you are a mule of some sort (terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, etc.) and as such there is a good chance you would be subkect to such treatement....

and if they do take a complete copy of your laptop, which they typically do these days, that means they have access to all your passowrds (if you have them stored on your PC), browsing history, cookies, files, tax returns, and PORN (lol) and whatever else you decide to store on your laptop.... just another word of caution in these 'dangerous' times...

hhe

What's the penalty if you forget your hard drive encryption password? Being declared an "enemy combatant" and never heard from again?

no penalty, really...they will just confiscate your laptop...and declare IT enemy combatant and you will never hear of it again

P.S. and their compuetr geeks will break your password, but that will be done in teh same lab that they will subject your laptop to water torture as well

Didn't read entire thread, sorry if it's already been addressed.

Re: Viffers situation.
Does anyone know the law or statute that empowers them to do this?

http://www.fear.org/forfeit.htm this could be something like that, its a list of court rulings on such cases so this should be the case precedence for this.

Havent read the thread since yesterday, so this may have been mentioned, but my friend at work just told me he heard about this on the news. We live in Cincinnati, OH if that means anything

i agree with your argument. I am more critical of US policy's than most people. However I also think it is downright foolish to lose perspective. The life we live is very good and saying "america sucks" is lacking in perspective.

when a long time poster and high stakes NL poster uses one of the oldest and most n00bie jokes...yes, i will ask about it. and if that means i am a part of the Joke Police, than so be it.

its ok im not canadian.

Yes, it does mean that.

i want to say for the sake of clarity that i am extremely opposed to many government policies and i hate almost all politicians. HOWEVER, the fact that viffer will get his stuff back does make this country impressive and good (this is relative of course, it doesn't make sense to compare us to utopia). also, this doesn't mean we shouldn't fight to make it better. the fact that many of you chose to assume i was saying things i wasn't... about these obvious topics... is disappointing.

see the thing thats impressive about most impressive countries is the fact that they dont take his **** in the first place

US Constitution no longer in effect

"War on Drugs" allows the cops to do this to people, meanwhile the opium crop in Afghanistan has increased in size every year since the US has occupied the country.

This tyrannical action taken by the Federal Government is a direct infringement on Viffer's civil rights and his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

viva mexico!!!

He got old-fashioned robbed alright, it's just that he got old-fashioned robbed by DEA guys. Unless he got their names, they're blowing his cash on hookers and blow and his watch is already in a pawn shop.

If he did get names, hire a hit man instead of a lawyer, imo. It's cheaper.

Probably no statute involved, just the natural law that someone with a gun can take whatever they want from you unless someone else says they can't.

No one here is saying "america sucks." People in this thread are simply expressing their concerns regarding the way this country has strayed from the ideals that it had been founded on: the freedom to go about with your private life without unjust intervention by the government.

The term patriotism has been altered and distorted by today's mass media. People think that patriotism is waving an american flag on the back of their pickup while blindly following what the politicians in DC say to the them. No, patriotism is fighting against the corruption of power "foreign and domestic." Its what the the militiamen and patriots did in the 1776. The loyalists who sat around telling everyone that British rule wasn't so bad are today's blind american patriots who attack anyone that questions the abusive powers of our government.