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onetwofiveten on Nov 19, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States

This is a pretty empty argument. It's up to the United States to decide all of its policies. So what? That doesn't make it unreasonable for outsiders to comment on how stupid or broken they are. Similarly broken policies in other countries aren't really much justification either.

JoeAltmaier on Nov 19, 2013 [–]

And how broken were they? Clearly the agents had just caught a smuggler; the OP said so. They were performing their duties up to some standard.

This article is essentially about a 'false positive' by the border agents, nothing more.

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