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A friend shared this video of assorted people exercising their fourth amendment rights at some of these internal checkpoints: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4
by mutagen 14y ago
A friend shared this video of assorted people exercising their fourth amendment rights at some of these internal checkpoints:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Ku17CqdZg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Ku17CqdZg
Predictably it isn't long before Godwin's Law is invoked.
While some were obviously successful through simple civil disobedience, I wonder how others turned out. The guy that apparently ignored an order to pull into secondary may have had a rougher go at it. The California agricultural inspections have stood up to challenge [1] and I sympathize with their purpose more so than a 'zone' including most of the population of the country.
[1] http://law.justia.com/cases/california/calapp3d/104/505.html http://law.justia.com/cases/california/calapp3d/104/505.html
- RyanMcGreal 14y ago> Predictably it isn't long before Godwin's Law is invoked. The purpose of Godwin's Law is not to gainsay all comparisons to Hitler and the Nazis, but rather to gainsay inappropriate comparisons. I would argue that a US federal law enforcement checkpoint that clearly, unambiguously and persistently violates the US Bill of Rights is a reasonable place to start thinking about other governments that violate human rights. The comparison to Nazi Germany may by hyperbolic but it's not beyond the pale.