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I personally have never had any expectation of privacy in my vehicle while driving on a public roadway. A DNR official has the right to search your boat on public waters at any time.
Please DO NOT defend my right to drive drunk. It's STUPID. The Supreme Court has ruled on this, and I am sorry you don't like their ruling, but it is perfectly Constitutional, and their authority is Constitutional, so it is you who is not respecting the Constitution.
It's constitutional in limited circumstances. The issue is that at least half of the roadblocks don't meet those requirements. The police are counting on sheep to just ignore the constitution in the name of public safety.
I'm pretty sure we get get the crime right close to zero if we just suspended due process, a speedy trial, habeus corpus, the 5th amendment, and that pesky little blurb that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
How far are you willing to go in the name of public safety?
The constitution isn't supposed to be enforced inconsistently. You don't get to pick and choose. The courts have ruled that your car is an extension of your home. Simple as that. Stopping everyone without probable cause is a problem.
Wikipedia is not reliable at all. In fact, it has been involved in many scandals over the years with people specifically editing the content for political motive. It is not simply an issue of the source not being up to top standards, rather it is the fact that the source is completely untrustworthy, a cesspool of propaganda for lairs and manipulators.
Now if I go on to claim something and provide sources, I will do so directly to primary sources of information or such where the reader can directly verify the validity of my statement.
Someone popping in to drop a link to such a worthless source and not even entering the discussion deserves no consideration to their comment. That is exactly what that poster did.
Maybe you should stick to white knighting issues you have a chance of defending ok? I think we have enough SJWs mouthing off these days, don't you?
Do you also attack the many right wing nutty websites that people are constantly referencing on this forum?
It just depends on what you want to call a legitimate source. With about 14 million hits per day, I guess quite a few people think Wikipedia is legit.
How about a cavity search? If you don't have anything illegal up your butt, no problem, right?
Sadly the liberal sheep are almost there. I'm sick of the "if you didn't do anything wrong" crap. The government ignores millions of illegals at the same time they are implementing even more military-style troops at the airport. We flew to New Mexico recently and they had so-called "viper" teams well before the checkpoints. The average soldier in Vietnam wasn't as armed as those guys. We have gone astray.
Not true. Just because the Supremes rule on something does not make it right. It only makes it legal. Lots of examples of their rulings on the legality of slavery should tell you that.
The Constitution gives the Supreme Court their authority, and you apparently do not respect the Constitution.
Check points save lives. I've seen tens of people pulled over through the years & I'd be willing to bet at least one of those would have ended up in an accident. Factor that out among the thousands of cities in this country you can be sure lives have been saved.
Police should go into houses and monitor what everyone is eating. Overweight people should be fined and if that doesn't work throw them in jail.
See what I did there.
People should never, ever have to prove their innocence when they haven't be accused of something. Again we fought a revolutionary war over things like this.
The Constitution gives the Supreme Court their authority, and you apparently do not respect the Constitution.
The court twists the constitution to suit themselves.
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