[47270] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crypto anarchist getting through customs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Mon Jan 15 22:56:39 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 21:09:48 -0800
To: Alan Horowitz <alanh@infi.net>
From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
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.
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