Were they asking to see “official papers” at the roadblock? This country is fast becoming a police state. We, the American people, are allowing it to happen.
It’s sort of shocking to me also how the Birmingham News is kid gloving it.
Almost all their upper tier editors are female now, so there is hardly any hard news reporting going on there any more.
That's EXACTLY what's happening here. This isn't a survey for an academic institution. It's a roadBLOCK. It's not a "drive thru," it's intended to force drivers to stop and voluntarily provide personal information. People will do ANYTHING for money. This study investigated how many people actually put up a fight or "resist." At which point, they're allowed to go, but the next time there's a roadBLOCK, they'll be said to be "resisting."
How much you want to bet that a majority of samples came from blacks and poor whites?
I agree with your assessment, however, I am confused by the part about ‘we are allowing it to happen’. Even writing and complaining to alleged Congressional representatives probably does no good other than adding your name to yet another database. When everyone’s cell phone and email data is being mined and kept to be scrutinized whenever someone feels like, is anyone any safer? The AG is not willing to do anything about it; he is the one who signed the authorization to tap the AP records are probably the rest of the phone companies data in the first place. The foxes are firmly entrenched in the henhouse and there is not a thing to do about it. When was it that you or for that matter the uninformed voters first noticed that the Constitution was being trampled on?