Wow TSA random road block like DUI checkpoints?

[alkemyst]

Cue the "I don't have anything to hide" pinheads.

And they ignore the poor sods that have been sitting in jail for decades only to be exonerated later by DNA evidence. They too thought they had nothing to hide and made statements on record.

Many lawyers swear no good can come talking to a cop no matter how innocent you are. They get one or two facts wrong or you answer accidentally a slight fallacy (being nervous and scared this is very common as our subconscious defense mechanisms kick in), you may end up in court with a 'he said/she said' deal...chances are the jury/judge will side with the cop.

This is really ramping up lately...it's pretty frightening how subdued the nation is to it.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Didn't take long for the violent talk to start for next to nothing - talk about minor checkpoints - compared to the burden we support for Palestinians.

hahahhaaa....since when did somebody die and make you the spokesperson for "WE"???

The people who call themselves Palestinians are their own worse enemy......

 

[cybrsage]

And they ignore the poor sods that have been sitting in jail for decades only to be exonerated later by DNA evidence. They too thought they had nothing to hide and made statements on record.

Many lawyers swear no good can come talking to a cop no matter how innocent you are. They get one or two facts wrong or you answer accidentally a slight fallacy (being nervous and scared this is very common as our subconscious defense mechanisms kick in), you may end up in court with a 'he said/she said' deal...chances are the jury/judge will side with the cop.

This is really ramping up lately...it's pretty frightening how subdued the nation is to it.

It is always smart to lawyer up prior to talking.

 

[Lemon law]

Ya hooray, police state here we come. Its the way to full employment, 1/3 of the day I watch my fellow citizens, and in the 16 hours a day I am off work, 2 other people are watching me because we are all up to no good no doubt.

God bless the TSA, first they start at the airports, then expand to the public roads, and will not stop until they get inside my house and bedroom. Of course by then we won't have homes or apartments, we will all live in compounds. Our homes are presumed to be our castles where we may be presumed to have constitutional rights, but only suspected terrorists live in compounds along with other unsubs.

 

[Darwin333]

Yes, imagine you spent hours a day in a roadblock just to move a few miles.

Think there might be some violent rebellion against the 'tyranny'?

Great - if some people did some violent resistance, they'd have the grounds for justifying more permanent measures because of the proven 'threat of terrorism'.

If it's good enough for the Palestinians, it's good enough for us, right?

Amazing how people will say 'who cares' if we back it for others, but not for us.

Didn't take long for the violent talk to start for next to nothing - talk about minor checkpoints - compared to the burden we support for Palestinians.

WTF are you talking about? I mean seriously?

We are Americans. Most of us are only vaguely aware that other countries even exist and I would be absurdly impressed if 5% of the US population could fine Palestine on a map or globe. Hell, I would be impressed if 5% pointed at the right region.

Yet because of that and their assumed silent support for whatever the hell you are talking about we shouldn't be bitching about rights that our Constitution guarantee us being trampled on?

Even worse, I wouldn't have nearly as big of a problem with this if we had been experiencing the level of terrorist attacks that have occurred over the last few years in the Palestine/Israel region. Terrorism is most definitely not the reason for this, terrorism is absurdly rare in the Us but they want to keep us in fear so that they can do bullshit like this.

 

[a777pilot]

TSA

Totally
Stupid
Asses


It's way past time to get rid of these thugs. Next we will have to have internal passports to travel.

 

[Darwin333]

Most people think DUI road blocks won't happen to them because they are in before 9pm usually and not near night-spots where drinking is popular. Same with the trucker situation. So it makes them happy or gives them a false sense of security that someone else's rights are violated, but their's are safe.

Now that we have equipped cops with tasers, that's happening all the freaking time. Cops weren't going down in droves before. They could and rarely used their batons. Now we have cops dealing out 'tazer punishment' because off camera it's hard to prove.

Since we have allowed them to shoot pets that may be 'threatening', cops are shooting dogs left and right. Many police stations have more than 1 dog per day shot. Prior to the laws hardly ever did a dog need to be shot.

People are accepting it, thinking those 'criminals' should be punished more. However, many of these dogs were shot when a cop was just stopping for directions, to ask a few questions of witnesseses or the worst; got the wrong house.

There have been dogs shot in cages, tied up, shot and the dog ran away alive yet the officer hunted it down in front of the family to finish the job.

Each day this happens and no one cares because we all tend to think like islands.

In Palm Beach they put down their own gun laws. The Supreme Court heard the case and deemed it unconstitutional. The country is not honoring that. It's out of control.

When something is very profitable and legal to boot that thing will always be done regardless of how "wrong" it is.

Everything that you are talking about is due to the forfeiture laws (cough - legal theft - cough) and that is why the "war on drugs" has been ramped up so much by local PDs. They get to take your stuff and keep it for their own profit even if you aren't charged with a crime! You would think that the bare minimum standard for them to take something that you can legally own is charging you with a crime but thats not the way it is. They even go so far as to intimidate poor suckers into signing their stuff over but even if they can't get you to do that YOU must fight and spend resources to get stuff back that was literally taken at gun point. Just because some asshole has a badge does not mean that it isn't armed robbery made legal by the .gov.

If THAT, combined with all of your points and ones that we haven't even touched on, hasn't pissed people off enough by now then I doubt anything will.

 

[Gunslinger08]

This reminds me of the book "Enemies Foreign and Domestic." Obviously, the book is extremely right wing, about the 2nd amendment, and extremely over the top, but it does reference random police/military/government checkpoints and the willingness of the general public to submit to clearly unconstitutional procedures.