Posted on 12/29/2010 9:11:04 AM PST by La Lydia
California's colonization by illegal aliens with a well-known penchant for driving drunk may put an end to the inconvenience of DUI checkpoints, which moonbat activists deem to be racist: Two local advocate groups for undocumented immigrants have publicly accused the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department of using DUI checkpoints to legally seize thousands of cars.
The Southern California Immigration Coalition and the South Central Neighborhood Council claim DUI checkpoints are strategically placed in and around Hispanic communities as a trap to catch unlicensed and undocumented drivers.
"In one impound, four cars were impounded because of drunk driving and 60 cars were impounded because of a lack of a license," said Julia Wallace of the South Central Neighborhood Council. "It's obvious to us that for one, these things are targeting working class people, undocumented immigrants, that do not have a license but are really just abiding the law otherwise and are not drunk."
Here's an example of the usefulness of the Newspeak euphemisms liberals speak in. If she had said, "illegal aliens" who are abiding by the law other than driving drunk and without licenses, it would be even harder to keep a straight face. After all, the term "illegal" does have a legal meaning.
What's to be done about the racism inherent in stopping drunk drivers in areas where most of the drunk drivers are invading Mexicans? Maybe they should follow in the footsteps of Maywood, a city completely taken over by "undocumented Immigrants." There the police were ordered to disband their traffic enforcement division lest drunken, unlicensed Mexicans be inconvenienced. Eventually, Maywood did away with its police department altogether. Lighting a shining path for the rest of California, Maywood soon collapsed into bankruptcy and lawlessness...
The real issue is that police can’t use checkpoints designed for one purpose (DUI check, seat belt check, etc.) as a front to enforce something completely different. And you can’t have an checkpoint where the purpose is to check ID. Even Arizona’s law wouldn’t allow a checkpoint.
It’s kind of sad; rules that are there to protect upstanding citizens from fascist behavior also protects criminals.
Welcome to Aztlán. Por La Raza todo, fuera de La Raza nada.
I'm sure these checkpoints would be likely to save lives considering the illegals' track record on drunk driving. And specifically targeting them doesn't bother me at all.
But I think DUI checkpoints are unconstitutional and shouldn't be happening in our country.
A better solution would be to repatriate the d@mn illegals.
undocumented immigrants = illegal invaders
drug dealers selling crack = unlicensed pharmacist
seems simple enough to me.
Now before anyone jumps on me about this view... I do not hold it to support illegals in this Country. I've said before, I want them run out of the Country and charged for our time and trouble doing it. The border should be sealed by the biggest, most impressive piece of engineering since the Great Wall.
Yes, I know what drunk driving can do - I had a family member nearly killed, maimed for life by a drunk driver. The only reason the drunk is still alive is that I am a Christian, and to have killed him would be murder.
No, I myself do not drive drunk - ever. Yes, I do enjoy an "adult beverage" once in a while. (and bacon, and bikinis, take that osama!)
Yes, I have been stopped at DUI checkpoints and had a pleasant conversation with an officer - no field sobriety tests were taken.
I realize DUI checkpoints may be effective, but at what price? Yes, they may get drunks off the road. Yes, they may net some illegals - all good things. I'd be tempted to be pro-checkpoint on those two things alone.
But then why stop at DUI checkpoints if this 100% random screening is so good? Why not checkpoints looking for illegal drugs, firearms...you name it? Why not empower the police to stop anyone, anywhere, demand papers and their purpose under penalty of being detained? Starts to sound like the Soviet Union, doesn't it? Why not virtual checkpoints on the internet? In the mail? On cell phones?
I agree with every word you wrote.
Agree on all that. Big government may have benefits, but its costs far outweigh those benefits, in my opinion. The Founding Fathers understood this. That’s why they attempted to limit the size and scope of the federal government.
I agree; if they told it like it is (targeting drunk drivers, bagging unlicensed drivers) it definitely wouldn’t be something anyone could disagree with while keeping a straight face...
So political correctness is more important than the safety of other drivers on the road. Once again, the left proves that it is willing to offer up normal people on the altar of political correctness.
Why not? Everything else is. Also, it is all Whitey’s fault.
Why don’t we just pass a law, “Undocumented workers are above the law. They do not have to obey the laws that others have to obey. They can do as they please.” Might as well. It’s pretty much that way, anyway, and I don’t think the illegals and their advocates will rest until it is literally that way.
Justice Thomas is absolutely correct.
We watch CA here in NJ, because we’re heading in the same direction...
Those who are willing to forfeit freedom for security are doomed to find neither.
Freedom of movement and from unreasonable search and seizure (DUI checkpoints, where you are guilty until you can prove innocence).
The “security “ of booxe-free drivers only on the road will NEVER happen!
That you suffered a personal loss is tragic, and you have my most sincere condolences. There is a LOT more to the DUI/BAC story than you are alluding to, however. I’ll tell you one little factoid below.
You are aware that the BAC of “legally impaired” has been artificially lowered every so often, aren’t you?
It started off at the discretion of the cop at the traffic stop. Then the AMA was asked and after some research was done a BAC level of 0.15% was drawn up as the national standard for legally impaired.
Lots of arrests later, most folks got the message and DD arrests fell off dramatically. Governments lost a relatively minor revenue stream, and groups including MADD started agitating that there wasn’t enough action on DUI.
The politicians ARBITRARILY lowered the “acceptable” BAC level (by ONE THIRD, to 0.10%), and lo and behold a HUGE spike in the DUI stats, and commensurate rise in revenue.
The public once again “got the message”, and DUI levels dropped, so the politicians lowered the bar once again, now to 0.08 in most states. Wow, another “spate of DUI drivers”.
Up here in BC, the gov’t recently and arbitrarily lowered the “warning” BAC level to 0.05%. That means if *I* (200 lb male) have 2 beers in an hour and am lucky enough to run into one of those rolling booby traps, I will have my car impounded and a $150 fine for the first “offense”. It also goes on my driving record for 5 years, even though I have BROKEN NO LAW, since this is a simple administrative penalty!
Do yourself and others a HUGE favor and research the funding and motivations of groups like MADD, which is nothing but the latest incarnation of the WCTU nutjobs.
Stop carrying the water for the control freaks. They love having the misinformed cheering the chains being placed on the public.
A rapist is an unapproved sexual release partner.
A murderer is an unlicensed ‘end of life’ consultant.
A thief is an uninvited property relief coordinator.
Liberals are insane. Why don’t we just jump to the end and declare that the enforcement of all law is racist unless it is done to White people.
Holder has already indicated that he would approve.
bank robber = “new customer initial withdrawal”
That could very well be the most insanely ridiculous thing I have ever heard come out of a human being's mouth.
Well...second only to everything that Nancy Pelosi has ever said.
“the fee for getting the vehicle back is about $1,500. If they can’t pay the vehicle is sold at auction.”
So what? If you don’t have a license, you shouldn’t get the vehicle back — at any price. This is one of the very few tools still at the disposal of law enforcement to control the behavior of illegal immigrants.
What’s crazy is you don’t even have to have a driver’s license to purchase a vehicle in CA — the car dealer’s lobby saw to that. And you don’t have to have a license to register the vehicle — CA isn’t going to say no to taking your money to register the vehicle, even though you can’t drive it legally.
This example happened right in front of my house: guy in an unmarked truck with no ID wanted access to my next-door neighbor’s cable connection. When my neighbor told him no, the guy came and knocked on our door. My neighbor called the cops.
The police came and conducted an interview with the guy in Spanish. We asked for a summary of their conversation: the guy had no Time Warner ID because he was an “independent contractor.” He had no ID of any kind and certainly not a driver’s license. And the cops just let him DRIVE AWAY.
We were four outraged citizens, let me tell you. How do you just let someone with NO DRIVER’S LICENSE drive off? The cops just smiled indulgently at us. “Oh, he seemed like an okay guy. He said he had never been arrested.” HE CAN’T SPEAK ENGLISH. HE’S OBVIOUSLY AN ILLEGAL ALIEN. “ We’re not in the immigration enforcement business.” HE HAD NO DRIVERS LICENSE. “Illegals can’t get licenses. And we didn’t see him commit any traffic violations.”
So that’s what it’s like on the front lines in the occupied territory of California. There are two sets of laws, one for citizens and one for the colonizers. Do you know what would happen to me if I got pulled over with no driver’s license? And not just not having it on me — no driver’s license ISSUED to me. I’d be in big trouble — because I’m a citizen.
So if DUI checkpoints can get a handful of these illegals and their cars off the roads — if they can make life difficult enough that maybe some of them will get the hell out of my country, I’m all for them.
I agree. The freedoms we have forfeited in the last 30 years for good causes (stop drunk driving, mandatory seat belt laws, stop smoking, environmental laws, keep kids safe, stop illegal guns, etc.) boggle the mind. I am very tired of government at all levels looking out for me. I would be extremely happy if I never had to interact with any government official again in my life. It does remind one of the old East German times.
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