From: "ScanThisNews" <mcdonalds@airnet.net> Subject: IP: [FP] FW: Americans love a police state Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 06:46:54 -0500 To: ignition-point@majordomo.pobox.com [Forwarded message] [The driver's license/ID serves as the link, giving police the "authority" to set up so-called "DUI checkpoints." These are in reality ID checkpoints. That is the fact. They can stop you and ask to se the DL/ID because it actually belongs to the state and the state can demand it any time they like. The next time you hear someone talking about how great these DUI stops are, just remember, they are really ID checkpoints -- do you have your papers?] ------------------------------- WND - Letters to the editor http://www.worldnetdaily.com/e-mail/98.e-mail.html Americans love a police state I think I've said this before but I'm amazed how our society (America) has adopted like a favorite pet, the concept of DUI CHECKPOINTS. They don't even call them POLICE CHECKPOINTS but DUI CHECKPOINTS because the MAD mothers convinced America that everyone must be a drunk driver, therefore you need DUI CHECKPOINTS. Remember, it is for the children! I heard a news brief this morning telling viewers "this holiday weekend most law enforcement agencies in the city and county (San Diego) will be conducting DUI checkpoints." Then the report showed statistics of a checkpoint that was conducted last night saying 643 cars were checked and 4 drivers were arrested, three for DUI while seven cars were impounded. My math shows that only less than one half of one-percent (00.47 percent) were DUI in the checkpoint last night. This clearly should be evidence to the Beanie Baby collectors in their sport utility vehicles that people who are not intoxicated while driving are being subject to arrest for other items along with drivers having their cars towed because they missed an insurance payment or did not register their car because the new SMOG II standards caused their car to be classified as a GORE or GROSS POLLUTER. By the way, the insurance companies in America are some of the most corrupt and greedy institutions that contribute to all those politicians who require you have insurance. Talk about the oligarchs in Russia, we have them here already! As Americans we thought we had free speech and free movement but not with these checkpoints. And you know how they tell you that you can turn around before a checkpoint to avoid it? WRONG! The Supreme Court did rule that there must be a sign with a point that vehicles may do a 180 but the problem is that law enforcement actively posts a patrol vehicle or two with lights off near that turn-around point and then they follow whoever avoids the checkpoint and stop them on probable cause. When will these checkpoints seize cash if you cannot account for the $1,000 you carry? They are already doing this at the border leaving America. When will these checkpoints seize anti-government printed e-mail messages (I carry this kind of stuff in my car, sometimes books on the New World Order or Illuminati) because of a new ANTI-TERRORIST LAW? This week your friendly politicians held hearings interviewing Louis Freeh of FBI and ex-CIA Directors (most of the ex-Directors are dead now, i.e. Colby and Casey, etc., so I think they only had one to use) with an active discussion that items that were originally thrown out of the ANTI TERRORIST BILL need to be re-included to protect against those nasty Islamic terrorists. Sure! I also have a King James Bible in my car (been accident free for at least 300,000 miles) and maybe one day at the checkpoint they'll grab that and say "don't get caught with that again." "You know those Christians are dangerous people" the two cops will say to one another, "those Christians are against abortion and euthanasia, can you believe that Sam?" DARREN -----Original Message----- From: Jim Groom [mailto:gs924jfj@mon-cre.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 5:11 AM To: Current Events Subject: Americans love a police state ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************