Fascism Watch: U.S. Customs will steal your information

A recent CNN report revealed that U.S. Customs agents can search your laptop or Blackberry, examine files within, and even copy your hard drive. Yet another example of our out of control police state.

Without even considering the legal, ethical, and Constitutional problems with this, it is simply an absolute waste of time. Unless someone has an obvious list of terrorist contacts in his address book, or a schematic of an airplane, there is simply no security benefit to this intrusion.

Given the bovine nature of most airport security workers, this will prove to be only an incredible hassle for already stressed travelers. It will however, allow for TSA to compile one hell of an iTunes playlist.