I have insurance, I have a conceal carry permit for my pistol, my automobiles comply fully with state law, and I don't drive around my car with drugs and other contraband. I got stopped at one roadblock, and I informed the officer I had a pistol in my car, and I showed him my permit, along with the other pertinent information, and then I was sent on my way.
The changing demographics of this city necessitate that measures like this occur or else we run the real danger of becoming the next Birmingham, a crime-ridden s***hole, in which a lawyer was kidnapped yesterday in a fairly brazen fashion. It is not like they are stopping pedestrians, and they are not going into people's homes. If you are not on a private road you are on a public road, you have no ownership of a public road. Incidentally, a week after the first roadblock, the PR did a poll and found that 81% of area residents support the roadblocks, the highest level of support for anything recently polled.
In order to get to my home in this nice well-kept area on the Bay, I have to drive through a once nice area that has since turned into a ghetto, I have no way around it. Whenever I buy groceries, I take a pistol with me. Roadblocks have made me feel safer, and they don't violate anyone's rights because you don't have a right to drive. The ability to drive is a privelege granted to you by the state, it's not your constitutional right, and I will say this, every drug dealer, every gang banger, every thug they take off the streets so that the law abiding citizens don't have to sleep with shotguns by their beds, I'm all for it.
Oh, well that makes it alright then.
and they don't violate anyone's rights because you don't have a right to drive. The ability to drive is a privelege granted to you by the state, it's not your constitutional right
Pure BS and already debunked thoroughly on this thread.
All hail the state.
"its for the children" huh?
how about instead of sitting around, hoping to nab a couple badguys and generate a buttload if income from seatbelt tickets, those cops went out and caught the CRIMINALS that were causing the problems.
besides, most criminals will know 15 minutes after a roadblock is set up, and find alternative routes.
And you believe that because the State told you so?
Amendment IX
The govenment uses this idiotic argument to keep us in line. We have the RIGHT to travel all over this country, that means we have the right to drive.
If you don't believe me show me where in the constitution it specifically forbids driving as a right?
As I said, it is one of the many unenumerated rights, reason tells us this and if you buy into the privilidge argument then I pity you.
This kind of thinking is exactly why some of the Founding Fathers thought a "Bill of Rights" was a BAD idea: people would come to think that just because a right wasn't listed, it didn't exist. Do you think the 8 rights listed are the only natural rights you have? Do you not think the Founding Fathers thought the right to travel by one's own vehicle was so obvious and fundamental they didn't even conceive of adding it as an explicit right?
You'd be surprised at how quickly you can run afoul of bureaucratic regulations, how severely you can be treated for doing so, and how a cop can just toss you in jail for a judge to sort things out because there is no way the cop can be expected to know the law thoroughly. A surprising number of regulations are designed to not just punish wrongdoing, but to punish the opportunity for wrongdoing!
May your chains rest lightly upon you.
Your easy acceptance of this slippery slope is horrifying!
May your chains rest lightly upon you.......
What do you mean, changing demographics...the Jew thing, like before?
Amendment 9 (to the united states constituiton in case youve never read it or heard about any of the amendments)
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
"81% of area residents support the roadblocks, the highest level of support for anything recently polled. "
80% of the people supported Hitler and the Nazi party in the early days of WW2 as well.
The rest were eventually.... re-educated. Those that survived anyway.
If the rest of the population was as like mined as yourself, there would be no need for road blocks,in Scotland they have just passed a law that allows the police to stop and search anyone they THINK maybe carrying a concealed weapon, this is because of the over 600 murders in Scotland last year more than half were committed with a knife, to now OWN I repeat, OWN, a knife that is not deemed a kitchen knife can get you up to 5 years in jail.
If the rest of the population was as like mined as yourself, there would be no need for road blocks,in Scotland they have just passed a law that allows the police to stop and search anyone they THINK maybe carrying a concealed weapon, this is because of the over 600 murders in Scotland last year more than half were committed with a knife, to now OWN I repeat, OWN, a knife that is not deemed a kitchen knife can get you up to 5 years in jail.
A lot of the whining cowboy libertarians are carping about tickets for no driver's license (lost it for DWI) and no insurance being the major result in your article. I consider getting these people off the road a very important law enforcement function that perfectly well justifies the method used if they found nothing else.
I would like to see surveillance cameras at every urban intersection in the country! I feel no need for privacy on the public roads. I want safety from traffic scofflaws and punks on the streets doing more serious crimes.
That ought to draw some fire away from you!
LOL!!! You're an incrementalist's wet-dream.
HorseHillery, comrade.