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...
Those pressure groups never stop. “Targeting undocumented workers?” Uh... they’re ILLEGAL!!!!
I think it will be a fine “teachable moment” when one of these moonbats get’s their Prius t-boned by a ‘83 Monte Carlo piloted by a 0.23 “Citizen of the World”.
That's like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist" -- Joey Vento
In order to control the criminal element of our society we need profiling and must learn to ignore the term racism. We might tell minorities that we may embrace the term and all that it implies. They WILL obey our laws!
I am not convinced that Sitz and Martinez-Fuerte were correctly decided. Indeed, I rather doubt that the Framers of the Fourth Amendment would have considered "reasonable" a program of indiscriminate stops of individuals not suspected of wrongdoing.
--Justice Clarence Thomas
Do we need to introduce “Drunk Cracker Affirmative Action” legislation to correct this injustice?
Obviously you have not had anyone in your family killed by a drunken driver.
Drunk driving is an act of machismo for those guys. They think they can get off by bribing a cop for $20 as is the custom in Tijuana. Sad truth is that in parts of California a cop will walk away from an illegal alien traffic stop. They don’t need no stinkin insurance or drivers license. Californian is long gone. You people in other states should take a long hard look at what went wrong in California.
Prolly.
I have been in an accident caused by a drunk before, but I think our country should be run constitutionally, and not on the basis of emotion.
When we stray from the principles on which our country was founded, we give others an opportunity to push ahead with the destruction of our liberty.
Hard cases make bad law.
Eventually this problem will be solved when we have sharia law and alcohol is entirely banned. Just a few Democratic administrations away.
Furthermore, this is the worst sort of government rent-seeking behavior.
The tools necessary to control this problem are already available. Deport the illegal aliens.
But government would rather enrich itself than concern itself with proper enforcement of laws.
The LA times did an expose last year and I seem to recall that there may have been something unseemly about the way the money was divided.
Our fascist police chief here in Austin not only supports DUI checkpoints, but wants to train all officers on how to draw blood at traffic stops.
I predict that this will culminate in all vehicles sold in the US fitted with tamperproof ignition alcohol breathalizer interlocks. It’s the liberal playbook. Create the conditions necessary for a problem to fester, like the tidal wave of illegal aliens, then use that engineered problem as an excuse for one of their “solutions”. Hegelian dialectic I believe is the term.
Government always believes the solution to any problem is more government.
I have, a very close relative as a matter of fact. That does not mean I am in favor of checkpoints (DUI, Insurance, Seatbelt, etc).
Being stopped just because I might be breaking the law goes against everything I believe in.
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