If you want to get some standing, go find a checkpoint and drive through it. (ha just kidding)
Sorry about the "get off your ass" comment, I'm tired and cranky. Any guy that works to support his family "Gets off his ass". Sorry if you didn't say checkpoints were Unconstitutional, others have on this thread and have pointed to the video you posted. And I've been told I don't belong here after about 9 years of posting and working for Conservative and 2nd Amendment Rights. I don't give up my liberties lightly either, but with a husband who has been a city firefighter for close to twenty years I may see some things differently. I don't mind debate but what seems like personal attacks p*** me off. I'm not saying from you, but others on your thread.
So have a good night, and I'll do the same.
Gee, looking back you are the one that tried to tell me to go to DU and implied I was a coward. I guess it only took you about 20-30 (I’m not counting) posts to write a cohesive, rational argument that even contradicts a few other things you said earlier. So be it.
But just to let you know, when you said to me you didn’t think checkpoints are unconstitutional that many poster on your own thread now think YOU are a sellout and don’t belong here and that you don’t care about the Constitution at all.
Hey this is an internet forum.
Freerepublic actually used to be a whole lot more fun than it is now. The posters were more colorful and I think of a better quality.
That being said I don’t think that checkpoints are Constitutional, but that is now settled case law. It is instructive to see how the Police subvert the “wiggle” room they have. It is instructive in that clearly giving power to Police, aka checkpoints just leads to more stretching of what is acceptable and legal for them.
My intent in posting this is to educate voters. The case law is settled on checkpoints, the politics is not. Voters influence policy, and they influence local funding decisions.
I was being provocative, and your “spirited” response was much enjoyed ;)