Posted on 02/17/2010 8:16:37 AM PST by granite
The sad thing is the Mass SJC ruled DUI roadblocks illegal.
Then they came up with sobriety checkpoints, the purpose as MADD puts it, “is to deter, not arrest”. Yeah, right.
Roadblocks, checkpoints call it what you want, smacks of totalitarianism to me.
Asset forfeiture.
A Shakedown by any other name.
A medieval concept, the police get to keep the spoils.
A legislator in MA filed a bill to reduce it to O.04!
Eventually, he’ll get it through.
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