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drsoran@ni.cba.csuohio.edu ( ) wrote:

>KenAA (aanderud@nando.net) wrote:

>: But what right do they have to pull you over (I mean, I pay taxes that
>: built the road and pay for the cop's salaries - what have I done to
>: deserve being pulled over when I am late for work!)

>	Do what I do next time they pull up behind you waving you over.. 
>slam on your brakes really hard then speed up and try to get away.. 
>rotfl.. seriously though.. how do THEY know you're late for work?  Heaven 
They aren't suppose know anything except if a driver is swerving and
exhibiting signs of drunken driving.  Then they should pull THAT
driver over - not just every car that drives by!

>forbid they mess up your schedule.. to be totally honest I've never had 
Again, harrassing 97% of the drivers that are fully legal...
>the pleasure of being pulled over for any reason, whether justified or 
>not.. so I guess I really can't understand your frustration yet.. to me 
its not that bad a frustration (checkpoints are quite rare it seems)
but it just the point.  If the govt and the police want to come check
my house and my car and my computer, fine, great.  Right. 
>there's no problem.. I don't see it as any different than getting stuck 
>in rush hour traffic and being late for work.. as long as you did nothing 
>wrong.. its just "one of those things" that can't be avoided.
Wrongo buckaroo.  The police forces can stop pulling over legal
citizens at road blocks.  Thats how it could be avoided.  Ah, yes -
then they can get back to patrol the streets looking for drunks.
>: Cops already come into high schools with pot-sniffing dogs and look in
>: the students locker.  Fine.  Whatever (easy pickings- 15 years old
>: kids with some joints in their possession).  

>	Please don't get on my case about this.. but frankly, I'd rather 
>see 15 year old kids get busted for this crap when they're first starting 
>out on it rather then when they've become addicted to it (drugs in 
Good point there- if the ordeal is a lesson for the lads. 
>general).. I'd rather have them put in drug rehab while they're 15 cause 
>when they're 16 they'll get behind the wheel, cause an accident, and make 
>MY friggin insurance rates go up..  (don't get me wrong.. I couldn't care 
>less about them killing themselves.. just as long as my insurance rates 
>don't go up or someone innocent isn't killed.. ;)
I'd like to see rates go down too.

>: Next they can pull you over for doing nothing wrong and driving a
>: perfectly and legally, just for a chance to find contraband on a
>: citizen. 

>	I can see it now.. hundreds of thousands of cops out on the road 
>every morning pulling over every car just to inspect their car to look 
>for something wrong so they can write a ticket.. not bloody likely.. :)  
No, but they do it now? THAT'S WHAT THIS THREAD IS!   These DUI 
checkpoints are places where police pull you over, when you have done
nothing wrong!   Just to start looking for people who may blow a 1.2
BAC reading!   

>: VOTE 	LIBERTARIAN!

>	Yea.. the party that says "Get the government off our backs!  
>Legalize Marijuana!  Then tax it!!"  ;)  
You have a better suggestion?    listening...

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