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"I'm much, much more at risk of getting mugged in Chicago on my way home from the airport than getting held up by Custom"

These are two very different scenarios. It is much easier to control your own actions than the actions of others.

In the latter scenario, your allegedly democratically elected representatives have (indirectly) asked customs to search you. You are mugging yourself and paying the person who is doing it.




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