{"id":7874,"date":"2012-10-25T16:58:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T16:58:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T16:58:14","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7874","title":{"rendered":"Sail Magazine: &#8220;Coast Guard Boardings and Your Fourth Amendment Rights, Part 1&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sail Magazine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sailfeed.com\/coast-guard-boardings-and-your-fourth-amendment-rights-part-1\">Coast Guard Boardings and Your Fourth Amendment Rights, Part 1<\/a> by Clark Beek:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sorry, but when it comes to Coast Guard boardings, you don\u2019t have any rights.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m surprised how many boaters don\u2019t know this. The US Coast Guard can board your boat any time they want, and look anywhere they want, without probable cause or a warrant. They can do this on the open sea, or while you\u2019re asleep aboard in your marina at midnight. They can look through your bedsheets, in your lockers, in your bilges, in your jewelry box, or in your pockets. They can do it carrying just their sidearms, or they can do it carrying assault rifles. They can be polite about it or they can be rude, but mostly they\u2019re polite.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re an avid boater you can expect to be boarded every year or two.<\/p>\n<p>I explain this to my guests aboard Condesa, some of whom are lawyers, and I\u2019m met with disbelief: \u201cBut that\u2019s a blatant violation of your constitutional rights! They need probable cause, or a warrant from a judge!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot on a boat, my friend, not on a boat.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7874\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}