DUI Checkpoints: Searched without consent while innocent
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Here is an interesting video of an outright violation of a man’s rights caught on camera.
What has this got to do with prepping? Quite a bit if you think about it. DUI checkpoints are more about conditioning people to accept forfeiture of our 4th amendment rights than they are about catching drunk drivers. If we as a society can be conditioned to accept this sort of abuse of our Constitutionally affirmed, God given natural rights, to be secure in our persons, papers, houses and effects, then how far can a police state actually go?
“If you’ve done nothing wrong, then what have you got to worry about?”
This is one of the most ridiculous excuses (phrased as a question) that statists and apathetic individuals use to explain away our rights. Why? Maybe because they don’t care about their rights or our rights, or maybe because their false sense of security is more important to them than their freedom. But it is also a highly selfish excuse on their part because it is a complete disregard of everyone else’s rights. Just because you don’t care about your rights doesn’t mean that I don’t care about mine. I happen to like my liberty and I would like to keep it.
It’s also a very ignorant excuse because it doesn’t address the real issue. It’s a question that needs to be modified a bit for a better understanding of what we are really giving up when we allow a blatant assault on our freedoms.
Next time someone asks that question, rephrase it for them: “If what I am doing today, (which is a perfectly legal part of my everyday life), could one day be made illegal, then what have I got to worry about?”
The answer is “I’ve got everything to worry about”
There should be no excuse for this kind of violation of our rights. Not ever.
Could DUI checkpoints one day be used to confiscate these items?
Here are just a few things that could one day be made illegal in this country (some already are in many countries, don’t think it won’t happen here)
What’s your vice? A lot of people already would like to make these illegal.
- Cigarettes
- Coffee
- Candy
- High fructose carbonated sodas
- Your favorite swimsuit issue (or other adult oriented paraphernalia)
Personal defense items
- Guns
- Knives
- Stun guns
- Pepper Spray
More on the Orwellian side
- Books, bibles, etc.. (study up on historical book burnings by despotic societies)
- Home grown food (Anything can happen in this country. Read about Wickard vs Filburn and how the Supreme Court’s decision allowed for one of the greatest federal power grabs in history.)
- Cameras (you know these cops weren’t happy when they realized they were caught on camera)
- Pets
- Vitamins, Medications, and other health related items
- Survival gear, multi-tools, fire starters, etc…
- Gold, silver, and other precious metals
So yeah, you could say that a police state is most certainly a threat to our right to be prepped. Now we are not saying all cops are bad. But many do need to be reminded of our rights and they do need to recognize that they don’t have to follow unconstitutional orders.
An officer has a right, and a duty to disobey unconstitutional orders (see oathkeepers)
There really is no limit to what the government will do to try to regulate and control our lives. Just ask your parents and grandparents how much more freedom they used to have. I don’t want freedom to be something that we only read about in contraband history books.
Where did this happen?
I say do something about it. I am sick of our government taking away our right, however I can’t do much about it being handicapped. Your young, you can. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
It helps to know that a lawsuit is brought up against the officers and station. It will also encourage others to film this type of abuse because they will know something is done about it.
Has anything come of this or is this video and FYI? We all know the police and govt are breaking the laws and constitution. Nothing new. If no one does not do anything about it, you will lose my subscription to this network and block this site everywhere I can.
You’re supposed to cooperate. The kid was acting suspiciously. I don’t see that the cop did anything wrong at all. He’s lucky the cop didn’t pull out a gun.
Really? Lucky the Cop didn’t pull his gun? Are you serious? Cops should only pull their gun to protect themselves or the life of another. That kid did Nothing wrong except not comply with his unlawful request.
Wow, really? Pull out a gun for asking legimate and totally legal and within your rights question? This isn’t Gunsmoke.
What planet are you from? Illegal search is still illegal search. There was no warrant. The “probable cause” with the drug dog was in the dog’s training. Of course the police are not going to tell you their dogs are trained to go hyper with the snap of fingers from the handler. This is part of their “magic trick” of evading the law. The age old “don’t question us, we’re the law!” excuse.
I’ve watched this video before. Ironic the police hate when they get caught with a video cam.
I am very tired of the police ‘bashing’. You that talk bad, just try for one night, walking up to a car with the unknown inside. And, when you have a home invasion happen to you, are you going to call the police for help? The answer is probably, ‘yes’…
Of course you are going to call the Police. It is their job to protect. Not all Police are bending or breaking rules or overreaching their powers. 99% are doing what they have sworn to do. When we see someone reaching beyond their scope, we need to reel them in and remind them of their duties and responsibilities. When they don’t heed to the warning, we get rid of them legally. I was a Cop in a major US southern city for 10 years. I did a complete career change and miss it from time to time. But when “pay day” rolls around, I’m glad I made the move. My friends from those days that stuck with it, they are still the best I have ever worked with.
What does a DUI checkpoint have to do with a home invasion? And where and when did this individual not cooperate? WAKE THE HELL UP!
Isn’t that why we pay via taxes for supposed “protection”? Who is worse- the government or the mafia? Governments send letters in the mail to extort money, the mafia sends a heavy to collect. Don’t pay your property taxes, the government confiscates your property and puts it up for auction. Don’t pay the mafia, they simply break your legs.
And what’s the difference between a no-knock warrant and a home invasion? Not much. Both wear ski masks, have guns, curse at you, beat on you and possibly take your life. One is sanctioned by the government, the other is not.
Now, what were you saying…? We are tired of bad cops. One bad cop makes all cops look bad. Hiding a bad cop is worse. The “thin blue line brotherhood” needs to stop because it will come back to haunt you later. We’ll remember the dead old guys in wheelchairs and the dead family dogs, when you need a good Samaritan to help you out of a jam. Wave all you want, I’ll just keep driving as if you didn’t exist.
Policemen are directed by training to be duplicitous in gaining a consent to search, if they can legally lie to gain your permission to search. If you are carrying a large sum of money, for any reason, they can confiscate it. It will be considered that it’s the fruits of a drug deal or whatever. If you can’t wrest it back from them, they get to keep it. Not personally, but as a department to share with the state in many states. Policemen must arrest to provide income fore their jurisdiction. Those politically motivated in the system use theses arrests to gain political notice. They are not there to protect you, but to use you. You must know your rights, by the Constitution!
Re your “constitutional freedom to travel around” – that does not apply to driving, which is a privilege, not a right. When you get your license you agree to DUI checkpoints. Similarly, having freedom of speech does not mean you can talk in a movie theater and disturb other people. Buying a ticket is a tacit agreement that you abide by the rules of the theater.
So your “constitutional right” argument is bogus.
Bitch ass cops think there above the law!!!
where did this happen? If the author was a lawyer, did he file suit?