TheEverlastingGOPStoppers: 4th of July DUI Checkpoint Video

[TalkingDog]

http://theeverlastinggopstoppers.com/2013/07/4th-july-dui-checkpoint-video/#prettyPhoto

[Dawson Leery]

1. Filthy pig needs to be fired and his bloated pension returned to the taxpayer.

[RoccoR5955]

2. Welcome to the Police States of America

Where the police do not have to obey the law, because they ARE the law!

[BillyRibs]

3. MUTHER FU&%$@*!

Sounds like Jersey!

[JDPriestly]

4. K&R. So much for the Constitution.

The Supreme Court has misinterpreted it to shreds.

I assure you, Justices Roberts, Scalia and Alito are far more likely to get a DUI than I.

[Sancho]

5. Nothing new to me...especially in the South..

In 1976 I was driving through a small town in SC taking a black kid home. He played basketball at the school where I taught and his parents asked if I could take him home so he didn't have to walk. Officer Hodges (yes, I remember his name) stopped me and asked me "why I had that boy in the car". After a quizzing, he said he just wanted to know who I was and let me go.

In 1984 I was stopped at a small town in GA at a checkpoint while driving a station wagon that belonged to the university where I worked. There were boxes of textbooks in the back. They wanted to search the car and I said "no, unless you have cause that I have done something wrong". The rural cops had a fit, asked me to pull over, and made me late to class while they checked the tag (state tag just like their patrol cards), registration, etc. It took 30 minutes to let me go.

Again in the 1990's in a rural town in Florida, I was stopped for a tail light not working (not true - it was fine when we walked around the back) and they wanted to search my pickup truck with sails and sailing gear in the back. Again, I said they needed a cause and I didn't consent to a search. They really get mad at these challenges! A state trooper at the stop took over from the local and asked me if I'd been drinking or had any drugs. He let me go. I think I was outside of the town limits by then, so maybe the local didn't have authority for a random stop.

At any rate, if you're outside of major highways and large urban areas, the cops can be crazy!! I think it's worse in the South, but maybe it's the same everywhere.

[marble falls]

10. Its everywhere. And its getting worse. The next town over, Llano...

has a SWAT team. WHY? Because the money's available since Sept 11. The terrorists have won. They run the police departments.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

12. It's everywhere.............

Last summer I had Canadian Border Patrol hassle me, took me inside for 45 minutes. They said I ran their stop sign. Truth is, the stop sign was on the U.S. side of the border and I had to wait to be motioned forward. He asked, "You in a hurry?" Somewhat dumbfounded and looking in my rear view mirror, I commented, "The sign is on our side of the border." That pissed him off and he told me to pull over and go inside. It took a while to get out of there. They wanted to know why was travelling with a Lithuanian and Latvian national. I advised them that I was married to the Lithuanian, note the same last name and address on our documents, and the other lady was our friend, visiting on vacation. Then we were asked why we were coming to Canada and I told them to spend tourist dollars, but if they didn't want them I would go back to the lower 48 to spend them. As noted, following 45 minutes of this, we were sent on our way. Unlike this young man, I was 58 at the time. I've been to Canada many times, driving and flying, and have never had such an experience. It's like the old adage, everyone has a kingdom. What's a guy to do?

Peace!

[tom_kelly]

6. Where did this happen? nt

[TalkingDog]

7. In America sadly

The law is the same everywhere. It does not matter what state or city you are in. The Constitution is clear.

Why do you ask?

[tom_kelly]

8. As a former cop

from the 90's, I was just curious to how this guy will show his face in public. I'm not surprised by his actions as the "bad apples" were multiplying by the time I left (one of the reasons for my decision) and most likely far outnumber the others now. I grew up knowing I'd be a cop and looked up to the cops in our NJ town. A piece of me will always respect the position but a bigger piece of me is loosing respect for the men and women in blue. Its becoming more difficult to come across a cop with any ability to show emotion other than anger - they act like angry robots.

[ffr]

9. State revenue

aka money.

States need it. Law enforcement needs their budget to keep that staff levels from declining. Citations provide that revenue stream.

TD, you have balls. I'd be about ready to wet myself. I've had my share of crossing paths with revenue enforcers. I once took pride in a spotless DMV record, but that is no more. Same was true for my father. Spotless until recently No violations for either of us since we passed our driver's exam many many decades ago back in high school. One mile and hour over, five, crossed a double yellow, too close to a crosswalk, not yielding to an undercover cop stepping into a crosswalk as you passed over it, too fast on a freeway off-ramp (below speed limit, but above some unknown maximum speed for the off-ramp and same as everyone else was doing and have done), too fast AND too slow for conditions (open range) no indication as to what too fast was, because I was 2 MPH below the maximum, yet the judge informed me, it doesn't matter, because I was violating the law driving too slowly. Paid my fines. Paid my court fees. We've lost in every case.

Can't win. Don't take it personally, because it's not. They just want and need your money. Pay the fine and go on with your life.

[marble falls]

11. Blackmail. The protection racket. Extortion. Who's the cops and who's ...

criminals?