You're partially correct .....
Posted on 11/20/2013 5:58:03 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Some drivers along a busy Fort Worth street on Friday were stopped at police roadblock and directed into a parking lot, where they were asked by federal contractors for samples of their breath, saliva and even blood. It was part of a government research study aimed at determining the number of drunken or drug-impaired drivers. "It just doesn't seem right that you can be forced off the road when you're not doing anything wrong," said Kim Cope, who said she was on her lunch break when she was forced to pull over at the roadblock on Beach Street in North Fort Worth.
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Liberal elite totalitarian thugs doing dry run research....
They’re checking how far citizens can be pushed....
Areas near Dallas are dry counties. You can bring it in and consume it but they still have the vestiges of prohibition.
They had a task force out busting people of “Public Intoxication” if they were observed drinking more than 2 beverages in an hour (no breath test or carnival games necessary to convict). $500 fine, thousands were written.
They’d bust people in the hotel bar of the hotel they were staying at.
Not rowdy people. But they were “drinking” beyond the arbitrary “legal limit”.
Good for financing.
Damn....
4th Amendment? Unreasonable search and seizure? WTF?
I would have refused, and then sued afterwards if my license was taken away. You’re correct. DNA data base and massive invasion of privacy. The test they ostensibly were looking at was for alcohol - you don’t need saliva and blood for that.
If you do it at the point of a gun, you are part of the tyranny.
The USSC ruled cops can take a DNA sample IF you’re suspected of a serious crime, but not otherwise.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/us/supreme-court-says-police-can-take-dna-samples.html
And wink and sing some Bette Midler.
American do not know their Constitutional rights and how to assert them in the moment of decision.
All of these drivers merely "complied", failing to assert and refuse; And so surrendered their rights...
Pitiful/sad...
...again... JMO
This is a violation of the 4th Amendment, IMHO.
I always carry a copy of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, my DL and CCW, and the Bible, just in case.
After I read this article yesterday I looked the company up on the internet. They have been doing this type of work for the govt a long time. Some of it is eye opening.
For example, on drinking/driving limits you normally say that MADD was driving the lowering of limits, but this company was heavily involved with that.
I happened to see this link on the TX message board and wanted to reply. Posted late yesterday with over 100 replies, but cross linking for others to see.
The Supreme Court ruling on DNA samples concerned a lawsuit that was brought regarding a case in Maryland.
Legal experts, at least some of them, said the Supreme Court ruling was specific to that Maryland case.
If more widespread DNA samples are taken from “suspects” beyond the parameters of the Maryland case, these same legal experts believe the Supreme Court will have to re-visit the issue of DNA samples.
Personally, I was appalled at that Supreme Court ruling. DNA samples should only be taken from criminals who are convicted of certain felonies, such as murder, attempted murder, child kidnapping, rape, etc.
So what happens if you just say: “No, I don’t want to participate, and I’m in a hurry”?
You're partially correct .....
This is ultimately being funded by the Tides Foundation.
John F’in Kerry’s wife’s entity.
I’m on my way to work and if I am late again I get canned. I am stopped by flashing lights and told that I must pull over into a parking lot to give the government sample crew a sample of my spit. Now that just doesn’t seem right, does it?
Also George Soros.
I wish someone would file a class action lawsuit against George Soros. He is the one who is destroying our country. President Obamacare is just a sock puppet.
There is a dry neighborhood in Houston (the Heights) which I don’t understand because it isn’t even a separate city (such as West University or Bellaire or Jersey Village, etc.). Walgreen’s and Kroger cannot sell beer or wine. Restaurants cannot sell beer or wine. Only is the law for a half dozen blocks in any direction but they are large blocks.
Go to a ‘bastion’ of ‘freedom’ and violate the hell out of it and see what the public outcry is. The real point of the research is to see if it's time to some more freedoms away from Americans, or if they need to wait a few year more years.
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