Police arrest 67 at checkpoints

The Mobile Press-Register ^ | 5/31/06 | Nadia M. Taylor

[HIDEK6]

That's why they let you go 10 miles over the speed limit.

Anyone can be pulled over for speeding (1 mile over the limit.)

[Dead Corpse]

You're a closet authoritarian, aren't you?

Apparently minus the closet part.

[Hazwaste]

"I had a cop friend of mine tell me that if he wants to stop you, all he has to do is follow you for 10 minutes and he'll find a reason to pull you over."

Wow, what a manly man. Does he kick dogs too?

[akorahil]

Maybe they should check women smokers, to see if they're expecting.

What does it matter? They're just expecting useless lumps of flesh anyway.... < /s>

[misterrob]

You wanna bet? You park 4 cruisers out on a busy street in high crime areas and you will be amazed at what you find behind the wheel and under the front seat. Until people started complaining about racial profiling I knew of towns that would stop anyone that looked like they didn't live in an area so as to cut down on the crime rate.
If you were 17, dressed like a gang banger and driving into areas that it was obvious that you didn't live you got pulled.

[ASA Vet]

you don't have a right to drive. The ability to drive is a privelege granted to you by the state, it's not your constitutional right

And you believe that because the State told you so?

Amendment IX

[RadioAstronomer]

Thanks for all the replies.

I don't carry anything illegal in the Vette (actually I don't own anything that could be remotely considered illegal).

However, the Vette is filled with bits of this and that from the space program (ALL ACQUIRED LEGALLY) such as a meteorite, three axis Inertial Nav unit, carbon-carbon skin, MLI, shuttle tile material, sensors, PMTs, thermal OSRs, CCD focal plane assembly, honeycomb skin, solar panels, flight computer, spacecraft panels, mono-propellant fuel line, RF cable, solar sail material, Astro-Quartz, x-band dish antenna, microwave omni antennas, flat ceramic microwave antennas, an RF subsystem assembly, blue nomex flight suit, Carbon/Kevlar clean-room suit, Neutron detectors, Vela Satellite sensor assembly, Indium foil, Kapton, Mylar, Titanium struts, Cray 3 computer boards, ceramic parts, core memory arrays, waveguide, 76GHz microwave assembly with feed, ring laser 3 axis gyro assembly, beta cloth, gamma and xray detectors, etc.

I take this stuff around to schools so kids get a chance to handle actual spacecraft hardware. :-)

(at least four of these items have been flown in space)

Wonder what a LEO would think as all that got piled alongside the Vette?

[Bhrian]

Checkpoints would be a nice thing. Then again, I wonder what percentage of the people stopped would be skipped because they're in the US illegally.

[jwh_Denver]

"It's a good idea and it should be adopted around the country"

As soon as the new recruits at the Police Academies get the goose step down it will be.

[Hazwaste]

"You wanna bet?"

Uhm, no thanks. You're going to have to do better than that.

How does your argument demonstrate that checkpoints are not fishing expeditions? The majority of people passing through them are law abiding citizens who must prove that they are law abiding before they are allowed to pass.

From Miriam-Webster's Dictionary: "Fishing Expedition" -- an investigation that does not stick to a stated objective but hopes to uncover incriminating or newsworthy evidence

[SteveMcKing]

"They that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

It is not for anyone to determine what I "deserve" in that regard. Ben Franklin can stuff it.

[calex59]

Oh, please, that old argument about driving being a privilidge and not a right is not true. Driving is one of the unenumerated rights of the constitution. They didn't have cars then but they sure as hell had horses and carriages. Do you think for a minute that the founding fathers would have put up with someone tellling them they didn't have right to ride a horse or drive down the road in a carriage and that this "privilidge" could be taken away from them?

The govenment uses this idiotic argument to keep us in line. We have the RIGHT to travel all over this country, that means we have the right to drive.

If you don't believe me show me where in the constitution it specifically forbids driving as a right?

As I said, it is one of the many unenumerated rights, reason tells us this and if you buy into the privilidge argument then I pity you.

[AppyPappy]

If they had only issued 100 tickets, we could debate Constitutional allowance. But it was 1,834 tickets issued. Now it could be that people weren't carrying proof of insurance. They had it but they weren't carrying it. If you have ever been in an accident that wasn't your fault, you know the importance of the other guy having insurance. If he doesn't have a license or insurance, you are majorly screwed through no fault of your own. Your liberties are about to be trampled. You are going to the prom with your insurance company and YOU are going to be the one wearing your ankles for earrings.

In theory, it could be a violation of rights. In reality, you have to drive on the same roads as these people. Just remember: 1,834 tickets issued

[AppyPappy]

If you don't believe me show me where in the constitution it specifically forbids driving as a right?

You can drive all you want. On your own property. When you hit the public roads, you have to obey the public rules.

[RolandBurnam]

you are darn right. how about checking them for citizenship? thats what pisses me off, legal citizens caught in a police state, while illegals do what they want and simply run after an accident or make bail and dissapear into the underground economy. sickening, really.

[Lewite]

Here in the Birmingham area 60 to 80 % percent of the drivers have no insurance. A bunch do not have proper tags or licenses. Up to now no one cared except those of us who were hit by these folks and had to fix our own vehicles. I live on a fixed income and spend money to keep insurance on my auto. If I am hit but one of these people I will not be able to fix my vehicle any more, and will be stranded. Most of these people are healthy and can work but chose not to. I have no sympathy for these law breakers.

[misterrob]

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[eleni121]

It's a good idea and it should be adopted around the country
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About time...Good going Alabama.

[catmanblack.]

Check points should be used more for illegals, in Alabama it is getting to be little Mexico in some places. All the brick masons have been replaced by illegals, so has concrete workers. These people make big bucks and pay hardly any taxes. The police have a nasty habit of tailgating people and I am like anybody else it makes me nervous, therefore you make mistakes. I was being followed by a Alabama state trooper one time for about five miles thru traffic, I halfway stopped in the middle of the road and walked back to him and gave him my license. He was kinda stunned, I ask him why he kept following me, he said he didn't realize he was. Told him if he needed anything just to put the lights on.

[Richard-SIA]

I second that!