MSNBC Live vote on US mail snooping

[biscotti]

Live Vote
Do you support allowing Customs and Border Protection to open private correspondence sent to U.S. citizens from abroad? * 27287 responses


Yes, the government needs this authority to protect us from possible terrorist attacks.
19%

No, this is an unwarranted intrusion on personal privacy and constitutionally protected rights.
81%

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10741549/

[Rainscents]

1. Done!

[IndyOp]

2. Done! (nt)

:kick:

[Pam-Moby]

3. Done

Do you support allowing Customs and Border Protection to open private correspondence sent to U.S. citizens from abroad? * 27932 responses


Yes, the government needs this authority to protect us from possible terrorist attacks.
19%

No, this is an unwarranted intrusion on personal privacy and constitutionally protected rights.
81%

[gulfcoastliberal]

4. Done 89-no 19-yes 27932 total

[marylanddem]

5. Voted n/t

[yorkiemommie1]

6. done

n/t

[Eugene]

7. Done - 81% No

19% Yes
81% No

28966 responses

[RobbinsdaleDem]

8. Done

[rzemanfl]

9. Done. n/t

[haydukelives]

10. Done

Kick

[Window]

11. Done.

Do you support allowing Customs and Border Protection to open private correspondence sent to U.S. citizens from abroad? * 30835 responses


Yes, the government needs this authority to protect us from possible terrorist attacks.
19%

No, this is an unwarranted intrusion on personal privacy and constitutionally protected rights.
81%



Peace

[helderheid]

12. Got this from my foreign husband - just an FYI

All our packages from Holland get opened. He just sent me this.

7 Treatment of Inbound Mail
710 U.S. Customs Information
711 Customs Examination of Mail Believed to Contain Dutiable or Prohibited Articles
711.1 What Is Subject to Examination

All mail originating outside the customs territory of the United States (i.e., outside the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico) is subject to customs examination, except the following:

a. Mail addressed to ambassadors and ministers (chiefs of diplomatic missions) of foreign countries.

b. Letter mail known to contain or believed to contain only correspondence or documents addressed to diplomatic missions or to the officers of diplomatic missions; to international organizations designated by the president as public international organizations pursuant to the International Organizations Immunities Act; and other mail addressed to such international organizations pursuant to instructions issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

c. Mail known to contain or believed to contain only official documents addressed to officials of the U.S. government.

d. Refer to ASM 274.94 for examination procedures to be followed for mail addressed for delivery in the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

[Raksha]

13. Done - "No" still at 81%

But what is this all about? Are they reading our mail now, on top of the electronic snooping?

[chat_noir]

14. Kick

:dem:

82%

[mod mom]

15. NO @ 82%