Posted on 05/31/2006 12:54:05 PM PDT by AzaleaCity5691
Huh? Sorry, but I did not follow what you were attempting to say. My car is not public property.
Most people have no idea what public property is. The meaning of the word public is commonly unknown. As you begin to dig into this problem you will begin to understand what the argument over the new Federal Constitution of 1787 was about and how it was a revolution from the original Confederacy. You may also come to see how less than 1% of Alaska is in private ownership and the 'public' is not the public and oil from ANWR is not allowed to be developed. Fourier transforms are easier.
So, if I'm on the same level as a judge, lawyer, and the politicians across this nation; unless a federal LEO catches me committing a federal misdemeanor and let's say being in this country illegally, as the example, then local and state LEO's do not have to enforce a federal law???
OK, so that means all other situations are the same when say like being on federal property loitering, panhandling, trespassing (for whatever reason time of day, etc.), theft of federal property, etc., then the same situation has to apply to local and state LEO's looking the other way??? Right?????
Seems to me this is exactly what I'm hearing all across the nation from the proponents of aiding and abetting the lawbreakers. So, technically we should be protected under equal protection of the law just as the illegals when it comes to federal misdemeanors?
I certainly am not up on all (or even most) of the laws of property ownership (I will freely admit that), however, how does this apply to searching your automobile at a random checkpoint?
Well, the thing is, in order to reach our home on the bay, we have to take this little road called Dauphin Island Parkway. When my daughter got her license earlier this year, I gave her a long and detailed lecture on why as soon as she feels she's ready to drive on I-10, I want her getting on I-10 because I don't want her driving D.I.P north of the Interstate. My son well, I'm alright with him driving it as long as he stays on the road till it gets to Airport
But at any rate, I can understand why they'd be on Grelot, there are those apartment complexes and then as you go down University towards 90, especially near Cottage Hill, there's that one neighborhood across from the shopping center which well, I've told my daughter not to go in that neighborhood as well (actually, I've compiled a list of where I'm allowing her to drive to, cause I know better than her what areas she should be traversing)
Seems like an obvious response to all the hoopla about illegals. It is spooky, though. Here, the officials go wild during and after hurricanes with roadblocks, commandeering communications etc. Now, this year they want us to stay home for 24 hours or something so they can do their thing. I travelled in Franco's spain. It's the same deal. but kleep whining about illegals and demanding they be deported.
Unbelievable.... ...go back to where ever it was you came from. You don't belong here....
You talkin from experience Mr.??
Oh come on, run with it! There should be periodic sweeps of the homes in the city and suburbs to find those that are doing dastardly stuff. I'll bet they would get a few illegal weapons and some irresponsible parents giving a glass of wine with dinner to their 17 year old.
We can never be too protected from those who would break the laws of the land.
Oops. I left of the sarcasm tag. My, but my face is red...
I was only a jury panel two weeks age, where the ADA asked if anyone had problems about "pretext searchs". I and six others did and we didn't get picked for the jury.
I have been a victim of this practice more than two dozen times, because I was driving through a town in the early morning hours. My business sometimes requires that I go places at all hours of the day.
I call foul - unless you have the new SUV Vette.
If the checkpoints in the end prove to be unpopular, then they will either stop them, and if they decide not to in the face of opposition, then we'll toss Jones out on his ass in 2009. That's what makes this different than what an authoritarian government would do. If the road blocks prove unpopular over time, the City Council will take up the issue and then it will cease.
"Papers, please" policies are a cancer on liberty, and their proponents are dangerous enablers of tyranny.
I am totally opposed to random checkpoints.
I don't see how they're constitutional, even though I've read the Supreme Court cases holding that they are. I disagree with their reasoning.
And if the first dog doesn't hit, bring a second dog to the scene. Happened to me.
It's a good idea and it should be adopted around the country
So, allow me to state again... Go back to where it was you came from. We don't like checkpoints in this country.
My own eye-opening came at a city council meeting where a citizen came to testify about something where he did not understand reality. He became unruly and police were called. The Mayor banned him from going on public land for six months, and that essentially put him under house arrest since he could not leave his own property. How can the Mayor do that? Are we not the public? The citizen said he was there representing the public, and in that he was quite wrong since he was in fact addressing the representative of the public--the Mayor. From that you progress to understanding how Washington DC can prohibit oil drilling in ANWR or anywhere on Federal land (public lands), or how snowmachines can be restricted in Yellowstone (public lands). You can even go into the outer space environment and see the real problem with the 1967 UN Outer Spaxce Treaty, which is where most people log off the discussion if they have gottten that far.
Anyway, however you get into the topic and wherever you start, there is a lot of reading and history to cover. You might even begin to wonder where the public corporation came from and why they call General Motors, for example, a public corporation when it is privately owned.
You may choose to undertake this mission or not. If you accept this mission, you will perform the equivalent of yet another college degree and your reality will be changed forever.
I had a dog trainer tell me that if the dog sits, doesn't sit,barks, doesn't bark, in short anything the dog does can be called a hit.
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