Right out of central casting down to the 30 years out of date mustache. Is this guy compensating or what?
Posted on 06/06/2014 4:28:22 PM PDT by Altariel
HOLMES BEACH, FL — With the help of new technology and federal grant money, police are preparing to warrantlessly search people’s refreshments as they visit the beaches of Florida.
New passive alcohol detectors can simply be hovered above a person’s beverage to detect whether it contains alcohol. Similar devices can detect alcohol on someone’s breath.
“We can go up to anybody we want, OK? If we see something that looks like alcohol.” On Holmes Beach, even the mere possession of sealed alcohol containers is illegal. Police are using that as an excuse to inspect anyone’s beverage they choose.
“We can go up to anybody we want, OK? If we see something that looks like alcohol,” said Holmes Beach Police Chief Bill Tokajer to WFLA.
“Our main demographic of concern is the younger generation,” the chief continued. “When you add the alcohol to the youth it doesn’t give you a more intelligent human being.”
The searches are facilitated by grant money from the federal government. Through the “Click it or Ticket” campaign of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), states and local police departments are encouraged to set up checkpoints and perform warrantless searches under the guise of road safety. If local police were not eager enough to violate citizens’ rights, bribes from the federal government all but ensure that departments across the USA are using military equipment and using dubious policing techniques.
Police State USA recently covered a NHTSA-funded program that paid for police checkpoints to be set up along the roads in 60 U.S. cities with the purpose of collecting DNA samples from drivers.
See WFLA’s coverage of the beverage inspections below:
(Excerpt) Read more at policestateusa.com ...
Here in Florida they sometimes have “courtesy” auto safety checks where the cops put up a roadblock and put a “flashlight in your face.
What you do not know is built in to the flashlight is a alcohol detector.
Bam you B under arrest.
At the risk of answering a rhetorical question, and a good one at that:
Alcohol is currently a ‘get them coming and going’ intoxicant in terms of the state confiscating property (taxes/fines) when you buy it and when they decide when/where/how much you are allowed to have, changing the rules arbitrarily, enforcing overzealously, etc.
Cannabis is currently the darling of government because it’s opened up a new vein of taxation. The anti-prohibition crowd thinks this is just ducky. But anti-prohibitionists are going to get a rude awakening when, down the road, the problems caused by all the pot consumption arise. The state will once again overstep its bounds and claim it must pay for treatment programs etc. It will observe the law on legal possession, purchase, sale, etc. but will be happy to crank up the same old harassment, checkpoint, snooping routine for pot.
Sand is very absorbent.
Oops, I spilled that entire cup!
Right out of central casting down to the 30 years out of date mustache. Is this guy compensating or what?
Interesting Google results. His daughter fought off cancer but he’s got a dodgy work history.
https://www.islander.org/2013/04/2-holmes-beach-commissioners-square-off-over-police-chief/
Neither does adding a badge and gun to a knuckle-dragging drooling idiot.
Yow!!! Thanks for the ping. Funded by those incredibly stupid “Click it or Ticket” Federal government GRANT MONIES (aka, OUR money, money confiscated from US, we the people, essentially a confiscation of OUR LABOR) ... grrr. I hope and pray that some benevolent and determined force of FREE people invades that police headquarters and DESTROYS ever damned one of those sensor things, and handcuffs the cops to the beach benches with their own cuffs.
The working conditions are better, too.
Anna Maria is one of the last to maintain a casual beachy feel and not be victim to high end, designer stores and vacationers. It’s a much more laid back feel and fun and beautiful island.
Yes, it’s a very relaxed atmosphere.
“The searches are facilitated by grant money from the federal government. Through the “Click it or Ticket” campaign...”
Wait, what? In the late 70’s the seat belt laws were passed with the promise that it “would never be a primary reason for stop.” I can’t believe the government expanded their authority and changed their mind!
The march to tyranny continues.
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