Posted on 07/05/2013 3:32:51 PM PDT by DariusBane
Video:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9e3_1373034153
Many Freepers will support the use of roadblocks "if it saves just one life".
What is instructive is that the Police know they are skirting the law but continue anyway. The purpose of the exercise by the Police seems to be intimidation in order to ensure future cooperation from the man who dared to resist them. One cop says "he is innocent, and knows his rights", but keeps at it. Why? To intimidate. The Cops used the K-9 to generate probable cause. However all they had to say was "furtive look" or some such b.s. as the goal is to subvert the 4th.
You LEO types here on FR. I really can't wait to here your defense of this practice. The other FR type, the "Law and Order' conservative, I want to hear you justify checkpoints in general. Checkpoints will always lead to this behavior on the part of Law Enforcement. So I want to hear you justify the need for checkpoints on the basis of this video.
You'll be waiting a long time to hear that from me. I despise checkpoints.
You LEO types here on FR. I really can't wait to here your defense of this practice. The other FR type, the "Law and Order' conservative, I want to hear you justify checkpoints in general.
Nice to know that everyone here has been lumped into either the LEO type or the "Law and Order" type. Which one of those are you?
The least they could have done is clean him up using some hickory stick shampoo and capcacin face wash.
I am apalled by the jack booted thugs!
DUI checkpoints in Texas are non existent. Outlawed as unconstitutional about 25 years ago.
We already live in a de facto police state. I do my best to avoid any contact with law enforcement.
Maybe I don’t get out much but I don’t think I’ve ever read a thread that was dominated by folks who approve of checkpoints.
How is it possible that Texas can function without checkpoints?
Welcome to fortress Amerika. I love the fact that they never even asked if he was drinking at a Dui check point. Btw chechpoint roadblocks all that crap is perfectly legal according to the judicial oligarchy overlords that rule us.
I have been Freeping since 2005. I have had this tussle over the 4th amendment over and over.
So if I seem to be picking a fight? I am.
I believe in small government, enumerated federal powers.
We live an an anti constitutional era. I find law and order conservatives to be mystifying. I just can’t understand the juxtaposition of small government, liberty, Natural Law and the acceptance of huge over funded Police Departments.
Law exists to protect the individual. Law exists to ensure that the stronger party cannot force the weaker party into subservience. Law exists to enforce contracts, and allow the pursuit of life liberty and happiness. I just can’t see how that squares with powerful ever present police with so many regs they could never fit them into the trunk of a police car.
I want weak government, strong individuals. Constitutional governance.
We already live in a de facto police state. I do my best to avoid any contact with law enforcement.
Same here.
Sheriffs and their deputies are the exception.
Drag drunk drivers out from behind the wheel and string them up from the nearest lightpole for other drivers to witness. Then the need for checkpoints will simply disappear.
Well there immigration checkpoints closer to the border but not DUI checkpoints.They tried that many years ago, they were taken to court and it was ruled unconstitutional by state law. Back then you could still legally drink and drive as long as you weren’t drunk.
Unfortuately not here in JawJaw.
I guess if the government set up these checkpoints looking for illegal alien invaders, that would be considered violating somebody’s “civil rights”.
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