[Erik Latranyi]

You can thank all the MADD lunatics who set the precedents for checkpoints and searches without warrants via their insane crusade against alcohol.

People were warned that DUI checkpoints would lead to other abuses by gov’t, but many turned a blind eye because it was for a ‘good’ cause.

[hunter112]

You're exactly right. There have been all kinds of precident for a police state set up from the war on alcohol, and the war on drugs. Under the Reagan and both Bush administrations, we thought we were safe, and even Bubba didn't go that much for abusing those powers.

But we have a full-on socialist now, the Bill of Rights is just another dusty piece of paper.