Checkpoint targets Route 9 travelers (Soviet style roadblocks arrive in US)

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[bamahead]

The description offered as to how this is not a roadblock is Orwellian.

Whatever they want to call it, it is ILLEGAL.

http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/law/law_fed_supct1.shtml

The U.S. Supreme Court decided November 28, 2000 that an Indianapolis Police practice of using roadblocks to check cars for illegal drugs using drug-sniffing dogs violated the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches. Their decision is an excellent small victory for those who believe the War on Drugs has been used to justify a chilling erosion of rights in the United States over the last 30 years.

In a 6 to 3 ruling, with the arch-conservatives Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas dissenting, Justice O'Connor, writing for the top US court, said "We cannot sanction stops justified only by the generalized and ever-present possibility that interrogation and inspection may reveal that any given motorist has committed some crime."

In an interesting and quizzical separate dissent, Thomas suggests that he may be against the previous case law that allows random roadblocks in the first place. Although he sides with Rehnquist & Scalia in this decision, he states: "Indeed, I rather doubt that the Framers of the Fourth Amendment would have considered "reasonable" a program of indiscriminate stops of individuals not suspected of wrongdoing."

[zeugma]

She also had a prescription for a drug, but it was not in a legal prescription bottle. Police searched her car and found a locked box — inside were her methadone doses for the week. Police said she’d been on methadone for four years. She was later arrested for having a drug without a prescription.

Yet another example of the lunacy of the war on drugs. Do you or any of your relatives or friends put their prescriptions in one of those "day of the week" containers so they can be sure to take their drugs according to the prescription? Well, you might want to let them know that this is a felony that is worth considerable jail time.

Our government is utterly corrupt in every way imaginable. 

[zeugma]

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.

The fact that lots of people do it doesn't mean that it's not a felony in our glorious police state that they can toss you into prison for.

The law is designed very carefully to make sure that everyone is a criminal in some way. They only have real power over criminals, so they make sure there is a slot for each of us to get caught in their net if they want it.