Posted on 02/28/2013 11:16:31 AM PST by blam
kinda what I was wondering.
I got stopped at one of these near Harlingen, Tx. It didn’t sit well with me at all. I was miles from the border, which isn’t being guarded anyway. I just answered the 2 or 3 questions and went on our way. If all of us resisted, they’d quit doing stuff like this.
:: If all of us resisted, they’d quit doing stuff like this. ::
No they won’t.
A right compromised in the name of “safety” is a right capitulated.
Make them do their job and SERVE THEIR OATH.
They still will not stop these unconstitutional invasions, no matter what “the resisters” do. There will always be lemmings and ne’er do wells that will submit.
:: yanked out, taken to a room, beaten bloody, and forgotten about for a day or two ::
I see you have been to Chicago recently!
Get a life...... this is the way they conduct business.
The one seeming fault is the distance from the border for the check points.
I have been through several and I imagine thay are at choke locations that collect from various border exits
You get a life!
Going to a Border Patrol checkpoint with the purpose of pissing off the agents is idiotic and accomplishes nothing.
They tend to congregate on these threads http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2992222/posts
I’m just not ballsy enough to do that...yet.
I still have a reputation even though it has been years. I was stopped by some dumbass borderpatrolman and I made him back off by threatening to call 911. I then wrote a letter to the editor describing what had happened and how furious I was, the idiot actually tried to pull his gun on me but he couldn’t get it unsnapped! His probable cause was that I was on a “known drug highway”. Except at checkpoints, I have never been stopped again.
Many years ago I was on a grand jury and the case was a guy who was stopped at a checkpoint and had agreed to let them search his car. Well, he obviously had something to hide and changed his mind and ran the checkpoint. They chased him for some miles and they said that he threw something out the window but they never recovered it. He was charged with reckless and careless driving but they wanted more so they wanted to indict him on “assault of a federal officer”.
The story was, when he took off an agent tried to run after him and fell down and tore his pants and scraped his knee!
I don’t doubt that the guy probably had contraband but they had no evidence of that and the assualt charge was cuz they were angry that they couldn’t charge him on anything worse than the driving citations. I argued for no indictment and I won. The AUSA was pretty mad, you could tell but we were in charge.
I have to say, I learned a lot about my rights in that GJ and I have educated others.
Now they have a drug dog pretty much 24/7 so if it alerts they already have probable cause.
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yup
LOL! What is so ballsy about it? If you are here legally then you are going to be let go regardless if you answer their questions or not. There's nothing ballsy about
There’s nothing ballsy about it.
bkmk
This is why you have a partner along who is covertly recording.
You will now have a lawsuit.
ping
The purpose is to catch those that illegally crossed the border; those that crossed anywhere other than at legal Ports of Entry. Years ago the actual border was patrolled for this reason, in the 1970s under Carter it was decided that it was not necessary to patrol the actual border, they were instead to concentrate on roads near the border. Authorities thought it would be just as effective and would save money. It hasn’t worked, of course and many- including me think the Border Patrol should patrol the actual border.
At some point in the last couple of decades there was a shift in how the justice system deals with average citizens. No longer is there a presumption of innocence on the part of police or prosecutors. In the eyes of the government, we’re all guilty of something, a position that has left countless Americans imprisoned or dead for no other reason than the arresting officer or government attorney wanting to stroke their ego or increase their conviction rate.
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IMHO, another reason for these “countless” arrests, especially if they can be charged and convicted as a “felon” is to take away the 2nd amendment right to own a firearm, since a convicted felon cannot legally possess a firearm.
Bet that you had not thought about that....
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