But Officer, I Didn't Do Anything!

Tampa Tribune ^ | Jul 22, 2002 | JIM SLOAN

[JavaTheHutt]

hahaha that's funny.

[dcwusmc]

The right to travel freely IS a God-given right. Public rights-of-way are maintained by government in furtherance of that right. Granted they should be privatized, but there you are. Sorry, you are dead wrong.

[dcwusmc]

$500.00 per word per question with a 100-word, 3-question minimum. Cash in advance, if I have to bill you it's triple. AND I get to revoke my answers.

[RightWhale]

Public rights-of-way are maintained by government in furtherance of that right.

When the first government interstate was built during John Quincy Adams admin, he had to go against general outcry that government shouldn't be doing that. He lost a lot of political points in getting his road built.

Those who insist freedom to travel is a god-given right are losing. Right to privacy is also nearly gone, has been since the 60s. All these things are going away, and not because they are rights or not, but because we aren't using the correct terminology correctly. Law is all about the meaning of words, law and logic are almost synomymous in modern language, etymologically identical in root. Property rights are not cast in stone in the Constitution or the Bible; property rights are a result of caselaw. That's where it is, and that's where you have to go to start dealing with this. Vague recitation and suggestion of possible unenumerated rights accomplishes nothing.

[FryingPan101]

Next time ask your mommy if you can use the computer before you attack a decent American.

[FryingPan101]

Come on, Nanny. Of course I do.

[Lazamataz]

Outragous. Intolerable. Rediculous. Abusive.

And completely part of the landscape in America these days.

[Lazamataz]

if that means turning the guy next door in to authorities because he sells pipe bombs at garage sales, you better believe I will.

Well, yeah!

However, he should not be turned in if he is selling them at hardware meets.

[nanny]

I am so sorry. I always get upset when others don't understand the gist of my posts. Again, I am sorry.

[headsonpikes]

"Next time ask your mommy..."

Oh, yeah; that's decent.

[the bottle let me down]

bump for later

[stumpy]

sounds like a FALSE ARREST. The courts have said they can have "sobriety" checkpoints, but any other pull over with legal justification is in fact a FALSE ARREST.

[sarasmom]

This can NOT be legal.I know the law is an a$$, but this is unreal!.To those of who drive I-4, any additional road hazard, especially one caused for such an assinine excuse is sheer lunacy.

Since we have more than our fair share of lawyers around here, I expect several lawsuits to contradict the "lawyer" who thinks this foolish activity is "legal".

Wonder who will pay for them?

[sarasmom]

So next time there is a "semblance" of a police roadblock, I can ignore it and tell the trooper I thought they were conducting an opinion survey, and I do not respond to "surveys' unless I am paid for them.

[Soul Citizen]

Pure and simple invasion of privacy and the courts which have consistantly eroded the Constitution are responsible!

[2sheep]

>Outragous. Intolerable. Rediculous. Abusive.   I live near there. And I'm not pulling over for this BS.

You might not have a choice.

Prophetic vision of Bob Neumann.  Click here ---> 38

[Jhoffa_]

They call it a ``Voluntary Roadside Interview.''

I am sure that's the first thing to cross their minds as a cop waives them to the side of the road.

[William Terrell]

Are they stupid, and tipped their hand about their potential range of statutory powers above the law or do they think people are so stupid as to not get the implications? Or do they figure that things are to the point where it doesn't matter what people think; they can't do anything about it using the judiciary.

[Don Myers]

It may be legal, but it can be made illegal. Do we know anyone in the governor's office, someone like shrub?

[gitmo]

If you are on public land you have only the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights and a few assorted human and civil rights statutes. You are on public land by permission whether tacit or explicit. That includes paved and painted public road rights-of-way.

Au contraire:

Article [IX.]

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Article [X.]

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.