DHS Agents Confiscate Laptops.

http://www.alexkingsbury.com/2008/06/27/a-controversial-customs-practice-creates-a-legal-backlash/#more-333 This misconduct violates the Fourth Amendment rights of Americans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution The government should not be permitted to gather circumstantial evidence against people, based upon there computer files. Suppose I were to have a laptop, and travel by airplane with it. If the government were to search my activities on-line, they might discover that I am a political radical. This information could be held against me, as for my being considered to be a possible security risk. Now I know that I strictly adhere to the Non-aggression Principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle, which means that I would never initiate force in order to effect social change. But the government might still consider my views to be subversive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversive, due to the far-Left http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Left nature of my politics. The founding fathers of the United States had this sort of problem with agents of the Crown. The British soldiers would search the possessions and/or papers of the Patriots. So based upon there personal experiences, they decided to limit the powers of government, in the investigation of possible criminals.