"You kind of left some stuff out from the middle."
I didn't leave anything out of importance. After his response the officer requested that he get out of the car, he ran his information and allowed him to leave.
"He was not free to go on his way immediately"
He doesn't have that right. He was at a DUI checkpoint and didn't answer questions. Very abnormal behavior for a citizen. Officer often pull over suspicious individuals at DUI checkpoints. From stop to go it took 15 minutes. It could have been 5 minutes but he wanted to play ACLU games.
"When you fear for your freedom solely because you're in the presence of a government agent, that is not a free society."
That is simply hyperbole or paranoi. You have free will to leave any time you wish.
Again, you left out the threat of jail time for being insufficiently servile to the cop.
He doesn't have that right. He was at a DUI checkpoint and didn't answer questions. Very abnormal behavior for a citizen.
SFW if it was "abnormal?" It did not reach the level of "probable cause." You, on the other hand, do reach the level of "serf."
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams