“I asked her why the federal government needed to know where I was going and what I would be doing. She explained that the questions were part of a new security ‘pilot program.’ I then told her I am an American citizen, traveling within my own country. That’s all the federal government needed to know, and I wasn’t going to share any more. Not because I had anything to hide. It was because we live in a free country where innocent people are supposedly protected from unwarranted government intrusion and harassment. At that point the agent yelled out, ‘We have another refusal.'”
http://www.mlive.com/opinion/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/08/steve_gunn_37.html
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