Female was wrong to react the way she did.
The RV dopes are wrong because they are tying up the lane, blocking all those that are trapped behind them.
Fine, make your moral stand against the system but don’t make me sit there and waste time as you both act like idiots.
I have gone through these stations dozens of times and have never had an issue.
In a motorcycle trip I took last year, I had to go through one of these stations when I entered California. I had a big laugh to myself thinking about smuggling “bootleg asparagus”.
However, it’s a state inspection, not the Federal government. If you don’t want to submit to it, you’re entirely within your rights to not enter the state.
These people were just being mean. Yes, the supervisor didn’t appear very bright. That doesn’t make it acceptable for you to belittle and torment the guy, He’s just trying to do his job.
Traveling between states in the US should never be restricted unless there is reasonable suspicion that a crime is being committed.
Where is the warrant, Janet Napolitano?
Unless they are illegal aliens who are potential Democratic Party voter. Then they can come ad go as they please.
About the only thing that really jumps out at me in all of this, is why is there a boarder check point at all within the US continuous states?
It's better for someone to bring a pest in from one state and wipe out the ag business in another state than submit to a search.
Like here in Texas, it's someones right to bring cattle from a quarantined county into another county and wipe out the herds in that county.
Screw everyone else, it's their right.
The dopes in the RV are totally wrong...if they want to cross the border here, they have to do it on the states terms. It has nothing to do with commerce. They should have been arrested and/or committed. They did have recource...the could have turned around and gone back whereever they came from.
Yes, there are other revenue sources, but did you ever try to eat a computer chip or a movie?
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I don’t even have to watch the video to know that the RV people are being ridiculous. That check point has been there forever. It was there back when I rode my dinosaur across the state line. It’s not new and they knew it. There’s a reason for not bringing in fruit and veggies with who knows what kind of bug on it. I was raised on a farm and can tell you an infestation of the wrong insect and you’ve lost your crops, your land, your whole livelihood.
Funny, I never deal with a CA Agriculture checkpoint when I fly there !
Watching this video made me want to see two RV’ers get their a$$e$ kicked by a big ol’ piece of brocoli. They were jerks.
I guess anyone questioning the constitutionality of unconstitutional searches are jerks.
I guess there are too many of the non-jerks who willingly submit to unconstitutional acts of government agencies to render the constitution irrelevant. Proof of this is evident in the comments of many of our politicians that the government can do anything and ridiculing those of us who still believe in the brilliance of those who on the FR of all places are now called jerks.
What has been missed or ignored by so many on this thread is the government thug was going to use whatever force possible to harass the people in the RV because they were taping the actions of government officials.
I had the JBT types demand a search of my RV at Mr. Rushmore using bomb sniffing dogs. Well folks, just like any human who works for the government the dogs were too lazy to ID all the LEGAL fireworks packed into the RV. /sarcasm as I am sure the dogs were looking for another type of explosive.
I only wished I had demanded a search warrant DETAILING what was being searched for BECAUSE as all of you have missed here, if the occupants of the RV allowed this search without a warrant anything which was found could be used against them and it would not be limited to fruits and vegetables.
If you give consent to be searched without a warrant you are a jerk because you have exposed yourself to just about anything the JBTs want to drum up.
Extreme douchbaggery.
They should have used an alternative solution. Sealed up the RV with the jerks in it, and pumped it full of DDT. Unseal it after 72 hours and tell the folks that they can drive on.
This might be a good time to start a rumor claiming all
illegal aliens are infested with Med-flies and Screw-worms.
Might work...
The drone chief “inspector” has the IQ of a broccoli.
Nothing exceptional here; this could easily describe the vast majority of federal employees.
My guess is that the RV jerks are Ron Paulistas.