[laplata]

People can’t have different opinions on this website?
I wouldn’t presume to tell you what to think.

I would presume to tell you when you’re on the side of the people promoting Obamacare, Gun Confiscation, Onerous Taxation and the suppression of your Constitutional rights.

But don’t take my word for it; look into it yourself.

Everybody starts somewhere.

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Are you telling me that I’m not a conservative?

[Finny]

Are you telling me that I’m not a conservative? I don't know whether IncPen is, but I do know that I am, yes -- if you support and tolerate checkpoints canvassing otherwise no-reason-to-stop-them drivers to find criminals, then yes, you are something other than a conservative, absolutely. And I will fight people of your mindset just as determinedly and rightly as I fight all the rest of the left. Because the mindset that supports such checkpoints is certainly opposed to the principles of the Constitution.

[IncPen]

I see that you are a Viet Nam veteran. Thank you for your service.

Are you telling me that I’m not a conservative?

I'm telling you that DWI checkpoints are an intrusive, unconstitutional overreach of police power, designed to find a crime (any crime) without probable cause. I'm telling you that your apparent support of that overreach is not a conservative principal.

From your own profile page on this site:

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.   ~Benjamin Franklin