{"id":4137,"date":"2010-09-10T14:54:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T18:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2010-09-10T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T18:54:20","slug":"this-is-my-country-and-its-none-of-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/09\/10\/this-is-my-country-and-its-none-of-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is My Country, And It&#8217;s None Of Your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just this week I was telling a friend about my lack of tolerance for being interrogated when I re-enter the United States (compare to my polite and honest answers when I&#8217;m entering other countries). \u00c2\u00a0Congrats to this guy for not being <a href=\"http:\/\/knifetricks.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/i-am-detained-by-feds-for-not-answering.html\">cowed by a pointless exercise of power<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0 I particularly like his &#8220;takeaways&#8221;, including:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>4. U.S. Citizens Have No Obligation To Answer Questions.<\/strong> Ultimately, the cops let me go, because there was nothing they could do. A returning U.S. citizen has an obligation to provide proof of citizenship, and the officer has legitimate reasons to investigate if she suspects the veracity of the citizenship claim. A U.S. citizen returning with goods also has an obligation to complete a written customs declaration. But that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to answer questions about where you went, why you went, who you saw, etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just this week I was telling a friend about my lack of tolerance for being interrogated when I re-enter the United States (compare to my polite and honest answers when I&#8217;m entering other countries). \u00c2\u00a0Congrats to this guy for not being cowed by a pointless exercise of power. \u00c2\u00a0 I particularly like his &#8220;takeaways&#8221;, including: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-personal","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions\/4138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}