Big Brother is alive and well and living in the USA

I started this blog for fun because I like mobile technology and I like talking about mobile technology. However, today's post is going to be more political commentary than about any kind of technology. I read a news article http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/17/38FE-tech-policy-gotchas_1.html) on line today that really upset me. It seems that it is perfectly legal for customs inspectors to take your laptop, smartphone, or any other technology you have with you when returning to the US and examine and copy all of your data. All of this is done under the guise of protecting the country but I think that the protectors are worse than the people they are supposedly protecting us from. The US claims to be the protectors of democracy and yet we have imprisoned hundreds of people and given them no legal recourse, we have unlawfully invaded a sovereign country, and now even citizens of this country are subject to unreasonable searches. I am forced to wonder what will be next and cannot help but think of something from the Holocaust: ":First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out, I was not a Communist :Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out, I was not a socialist :Next they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, I was not a unionist. :And then they came for me and there was no one left to speak!". We cannot allow our rights as citizens to be eroded away by an administration that is drunk with power and greed. President Bush is not only guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, he is also a traitor who deprives his own countrymen of the basic rights for which Americans have fought and died to preserve for over two centuries.