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Article #378Re: Police RoadBlocks/Checkpoints
From: Richard Collins
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 03:53
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 03:53
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"Lester" <wtfo1@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:yoPL9.227570$C8.646995@nnrp1.uunet.ca... > > You are correct in that there is nothing in the charter of rights a freedoms > that specifically states that travel by roadway as a vehicle passenger is a > right, > however there is nothing to state that it is not. > > The charter does however guarantee the right not to be arbitrarily detained. The key word is "arbitrarily". > The charter does not state that being detained means being transported to a > police station. > When the police set up roadblocks, every individual in ever vehicle is > arbitrarily detained. Are they? Define "arbitrarily". > Most if not all of these road blocks are set up in such a manner that traps > travellers in a line of traffic Pretty dumb to set one up on an untravelled roadway. > with no way out. The detainees do not have an option to leave. What is the > difference between being > held immobile in your vehicle awaiting search and being held without cause > at the police station awaiting search. The words "without cause". > In your opinion would it be ok for the police to set up a check point on a > busy city sidewalk to detain and search pedestrians in attempt to > catch law breakers? If it could be shown that such a tactic was, overall, in the interests of society as a whole. > Actually according to your logic, those pedestrians have no right to be on > the street. Who said that?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f7b9c,5dc2844d329f1549 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7b9c,public X-Google-Thread: 105b91,5dc2844d329f1549 X-Google-Attributes: gid105b91,public X-Google-Thread: fbdd9,5dc2844d329f1549 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbdd9,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-17 20:01:18 PST From: "Richard Collins" <r..collins@sympatico.ca> Newsgroups: dal.general,hfx.general,ns.general References: <_JJK9.226388$C8.631533@nnrp1.uunet.ca> <Y3ZK9.5947$cN6.231329@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca> <f%6L9.226822$C8.636120@nnrp1.uunet.ca> <5iaL9.1484$pS6.216317@news20.bellglobal.com> <pxwL9.227299$C8.641769@nnrp1.uunet.ca> <tgitvugm1j8nsj4qhl3bgtu4vc0ajfnu9i@4ax.com> <yoPL9.227570$C8.646995@nnrp1.uunet.ca> Subject: Re: Police RoadBlocks/Checkpoints Lines: 51 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: <olSL9.3319$iQ3.788819@news20.bellglobal.com> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:53:13 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.230.54.93 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1040183764 64.230.54.93 (Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:56:04 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:56:04 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!priapus.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!newshub.northeast.verio.net!verio!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail