and the aclu is all over this... right???
Posted on 05/15/2007 3:21:40 PM PDT by Rodney King
Probably the "freest" people on earth are living in thatch huts in the Amazon, or on a south pacific island. Some folks romanticize such life, but those who live that way are also dirt poor, live a literal hand to mouth existence and die early. We aren't really "free" here by comparison, but I think I like it best here anyway.
If people want to stop illegals, this is the kind of thing, along with carrying your new tamper proof ID everywhere, that we’ll have to put up with.
This is only the beginning of “papers please”.
Sounds like a border check point. Route 9 goes to New Brunswick Canada.
Because it is not about your car but a broadley thrown net to pull in anyone who might be doing something illegal.
Pssst! Over here. If this isn’t a Nanny State ping-worthy situation, I don’t know WHAT is. Grrrr!
Where are the pictures of the T-72's?
Yes you should be - why are we suppose to be worried about our government - it is the government who should be worried about its citizens.
I've been through those... they ask who's in the car, and then let you go. Nothing at all like the above-mentioned BS.
It’s called reasonable suspicion. You are supposed to be secure in your person and your papers, unless law enforcement has reasonable suspicion. In that case, they can do a pat down for weapons for their own safety.
To search your car, they need at least reasonable suspicion, because normally they would need a search warrant, which requires probable cause for a search, a much higher standard of evidence that a crime has been committed. To get a search warrant, they have to show cause to a judge, and the judge has to sign it.
For cars, the LEO can site ‘exigent circumstances’, that being that if they stopped to get a warrant, that the perp could drive off and destroy the evidence or something of that nature.
In that case, with cars, they will drive you to a police station, put you in lock up, and then get the warrant anyway, since they can put you in the can for 24 hours without charging you with a crime.
So, in short, the 4th amendment to the constitution is the big deal here. What these blue staters are perpetrating here is just a violation of black-letter law, and they themselves should be arrested for it.
and the aclu is all over this... right???
Several years back we had a dipwad police chief that thought it would be fun to harass vets leaving the legion bar. Two weeks later he was fired by the village council after vets showed up at the monthly meeting, proving that people do have power when they complain loudly enough. Maybe the little fascist found work in Maine.
There’s this little thing called The Constitution which once upon a time(yes, I realize it’s become a fairy tail these days) rightly limited police powers.
The police neither have the right to my time nor my identity if I’m not in the process of committing a criminal act. My time, my name and the contents of my vehicle are none of his bloody business.
Instead of doing police work, they set up these revenue generation stops to both steal my time and violate my privacy by sticking their noses into my business and parade their narcotics dogs around and around my car praying the dog doesn’t miss the sit command from it’s handler.
The “big deal” is it’s wrong and everyone who values freedom should be raising hell about this and every other abuse of our rights under color of law.
Yup.
I think I'll get one of those "life lock" accounts they advertize on the radio. Once we start cracking down on ID for work, there will be 12 million people who will start using someone else's name as well as their SSN so as to make sure everything matches.
I’ve been through those... they ask who’s in the car, and then let you go. Nothing at all like the above-mentioned BS.
That is a matter of opinion did you ever notice the drug sniffing dogs?
The point I am trying to make here is people are over reacting to these searches they try to make it out as all evil when it is not. If they catch One two three or even four drunks the check point has done its job. The same goes for catching illegals along the borders if they catch five ten or fifteen the check points have done their job.
I do not know about others but I do not wants drunks on the same road that I might be driving on and I sure as all hell to dont want more illegals taking jobs from American citizens. I am fed up with the stuff they claim i.e. they are doing jobs Americans will not do. Give me a break I know darn well Americans will slaughter chickens, my dad did and we had a respectable life.
Now they are saying Americans do not want to hang dry wall????? Say what my uncles would love to have their jobs back those illegals stole.
The bottom line is these check points can stop some of this from happening if they are not here they can not take your jo and drunk drivers cannot kill you either if they are not on the road..
I have always thought Freepers had some pretty good heads o their shoulders but lately I am starting to wonder. Perhaps we have bee infiltrated by the liberals, yeah that’s it.
Just how many rights are you willing to give up to catch the drunks on the road?
The same goes for catching illegals along the borders if they catch five ten or fifteen the check points have done their job.
Equating border operations with stopping every car on the road is ludicrous.
WTF ? ? ? Her prescription drug was not in a bottle with the prescription on it? Mr. Donut Eater may have stepped on his own tenders with hob-nailed boots with that arrest.
One wonders whether Mr. Donut Eater realizes than many people place their meds into compartmented plastic dose boxes. Each compartment has their meds for a particular period of time.
Hopefully, the Donut Eater will be sued and lose his LEO certification for an assortment of reasons. A very short list of reasons follows, not the least of which is being too stupid to be allowed on the streets, let alone on the streets armed and armored with a badge pinned on.
BAD COP! NO DONUT!
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