Originally Posted by TXagogo

Hi cardio,
It's not so much the exercising (or not) of rights that bothers me in this example. After all, I will admit that when I return from abroad I answer the questions because they have never been all that intrusive.

I am just uncomfortable with the implication that one should do something because of the threat that someone is going to detain you and make your life difficult if you don't. To me that sounds like an intimidation technique and I'm not comfortable with that.