At 3:27 AM 1/16/96, Alan Horowitz wrote:
My bullshit detector is starting to pin the needle.
US Customs doesn't care about your political status or leanings. They want to collect the proper excise and catch contraband.
There are INS people at passport control. I am skeptical that they would detain a US passport holder for 36 hours. I would like to see some evidence that this actually happened.
US citizens can't be excluded from the country, nor have their citizenship taken away from them.
Since you're addressing this to me, what exactly did I say--be specific--that you think I was bullshitting about? They can, and do, detain entering citizens, as the Zimmermann case showed. And our own Fred Cohen confirms that he was detained upon re-entering the U.S. from Canada. --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."