I substantially agree with you, Azalea (except about driving not being a right -- Tenth Amendment and all that).
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!
As a foreigner, I am just amazed at the whining...
I have been involved in a (minor) RTA with an uninsured, untaxed scumbag. It cost me a load of aggravation and I got the privilege to have to pay for my own repairs.
Get those who have NO LEGAL RIGHT to be driving OFF the road. If it needs a few roadblocks to get the message across, then bring 'em on. In these days of heightened security you never know who else they might just pick up.....
Might just save the world another 9/11 and you are the guys who should really know that....
And I don't give a stuff what Ben Franklin said. Life was simpler then.