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To: microgood
These checkpoints are illegal and the ones performing them need to be arrested and incarcerated because they are breaking the law.

How are they illegal? If they were illegal every person arrested by a roadside stop would have the case thrown out.
I may not like being stopped a checkpoint, especially if I am drinking a beer, but do not mind getting unlicensed or drunk drivers off the road. If I am not doing anything wrong I have nothing to worry about. Maybe the people who mind should do their drinking and pot smoking at home.
18 posted on 05/17/2009 10:57:08 AM PDT by John D
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To: John D
How are they illegal? If they were illegal every person arrested by a roadside stop would have the case thrown out.

They are a violation of the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. Cops violate people's rights in this country tens of thousands of times a day in this country and get away with it. Cops believe they are above the law, and that laws only apply to "civilians".

If I am not doing anything wrong I have nothing to worry about. Maybe the people who mind should do their drinking and pot smoking at home.

If this is the case, then you won't mind if the police come in and ransack your house once a week to make sure you are not using drugs.

Many people have died protecting our freedoms and it is our duty to preserve them for future generations. Checkpoints belong in Communist China and the old Soviet Union, and I never thought I would see the day they would happen here. I guess the Soviets won the cold war after all.
22 posted on 05/17/2009 11:24:58 AM PDT by microgood
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