{"id":35387,"date":"2018-04-06T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35387"},"modified":"2018-03-16T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T14:34:09","slug":"qotd-bordertown-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/04\/06\/qotd-bordertown-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Bordertown, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Welcome to Bordertown, USA. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/know-your-rights-governments-100-mile-border-zone-map\" target=\"_blank\">Population: 200 million<\/a>. Expect occasional temporary population increases from travelers arriving from other countries. Your rights as a US citizen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20130212\/02045321947\/do-you-live-constitution-free-zone-us.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">are indeterminate<\/a> within 100 miles of US borders. They may be respected. They may be ignored. But courts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20131231\/14110425728\/final-up-yours-to-4th-amendment-2013-court-says-border-searches-your-computer-are-okay-because-you-shouldnt-keep-important-info.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">have decided<\/a> that the &#8220;right&#8221; to do national security stuff &mdash; as useless as most its efforts are &mdash; trumps the rights of US citizens. <\/p>\n<p>Tim Cushing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20160721\/13574935036\/wall-street-journal-reporter-hassled-la-airport-successfully-prevents-dhs-searching-her-phones.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> Reporter Hassled At LA Airport; Successfully Prevents DHS From Searching Her Phones&#8221;, <em>Techdirt<\/em><\/a>, 2016-07-22.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Bordertown, USA. Population: 200 million. Expect occasional temporary population increases from travelers arriving from other countries. Your rights as a US citizen are indeterminate within 100 miles of US borders. They may be respected. They may be ignored. But courts have decided that the &#8220;right&#8221; to do national security stuff &mdash; as useless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,41,13],"tags":[316,154,217,201,202],"class_list":["post-35387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-borders","tag-privacy","tag-rights","tag-securitytheatre","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9cL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35388,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35387\/revisions\/35388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}