Specifically, I read several times in this article that "The appeals court said that while drug checkpoints are illegal -- because motorists are stopped at random and without reasonable suspicion of committing a crime" Uh, news to me. Missouri has sobriety check points and seat belt check points and hunting permit check points. Are they illegal? They should be, as the judge said that it was being conducted without reasonable suspicion of committing a crime.... |
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Seat belt - if they can't see your belt through your window, they suspect you aren't wearing one. But sobriety checkpoints strike me as illegal. These are just guesses. . Must be a state-by-state thing. I've never heard of any checkkpoints 'round here. They just gave cops permission to stop drivers if they see they aren't wearing a seatbelt in the last few years. Before that, the cop had to have some other reason to stop you. |
They build these things to block the roads, check EVERYONE'S DL, Reg and Ins card.... |
specifically the fourth bullet point? |
I am not talking about feds here, I am talking about a state. check the 10th bullet. |
"The 10th Circuit agreed with his lawyers that checkpoints are illegal but ultimately ruled against him because there really weren't any checkpoints." Wow. The police were checking for certain behaviors at a certain point in the road, but that's not a "checkpoint"? Amazing. |
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Hunting Checkpoints happen, and they are a pain in the ass. But there is a reason for them, and they nail those out of state cocksuckers all the time. Doesn't really matter though, I still fucking hate the Montana State Highway Patrol. |
. The HP have never given me any trouble. |
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I think that if they were REALLY sitting on Bin Laden, then they might have at least mentioned his name during the Elephant HATE fest last week. |