Drivers license checkpoint

[FBplmmr]

Today in Charlotte county FL a Drivers license checkpoint was held at 4pm on a local road.

I found no link on the local news website although it was advertised on the news this morning and featured tonight on the news.


How do you feel about a 'drivers license checkpoint'?

My first thought is 'Is that legal?'

A friend pointed out 'It's for your protection.'

I suppose it is, but a camera in my home linked to the PD would also insure I was not becoming the victim of a home invasion, again for my protection, but I am sure I don't want that.

[JB88]

are they rounding up illegals?

[FBplmmr]

If the illegals 'are just here to work' shouldn't they then go to the jobsites?

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by FBplmmr


A friend pointed out 'It's for your protection.'

 

Next time you see him ask him this question for me.

"Protection from exactly what?"

I can get killed just as easily by an unlicenced driver as I can from a licenced one.

If the police worried as much about the people going 90 MPH in a 55 and 20 MPH in a 60 as they do about checking licences or if your wearing a seatbelt at roadside extortion...errr I mean check points.

Everyone would be alot more protected.

[Russian]

privilege, not a right?

[john9001]

no probable cause to stop cars, the check point is not legal, but they do lots of illegal things and the SC backs them up.  For your "protection".

It's really a revenue producing thing and it gives the cops something to do so they don't get bored.

[boxboy28]

Free/............. were not free in the US anymore.....and what we do/did have is fading quick!:noid

[FBplmmr]

Originally posted by Russian
privilege, not a right?

That's a good point, but I don't have right to own a home or rent an apartment.

Should they be able to knock on my door to just 'check around"?

[Sundowner]

"Your papers, please."

Regards,
Sun

[Gunslinger]

I don't remember reading in the constitution...."right to drive a car"

What they are checking for....as it seams...is to make sure there are liscense drivers on the road.

If you are driving a car without one you are in violation of the law.  If you wish to travel "without papers" you may walk to and from your desitination.

If they are busting liscense drivers for other things than I find it highly disturbing.  However, if they find a car with a non-liscense driver in it and decide to search and find drugs well then that's up for the courts to decide.

point being you need a liscense to drive a car in the US.

With out a link this is all a guess.

[john9001]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
I don't remember reading in the constitution...."right to drive a car"

What they are checking for....as it seams...is to make sure there are liscense drivers on the road.

4th amendent.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.


secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures

[Blooz]

Could be searching for escaped convicts.

[Angrist]

Originally posted by Sundowner
"Your papers, please."

Regards,
Sun

Exactly what my first thought was....

[lasersailor184]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
I don't remember reading in the constitution...."right to drive a car"

What they are checking for....as it seams...is to make sure there are liscense drivers on the road.

If you are driving a car without one you are in violation of the law.  If you wish to travel "without papers" you may walk to and from your desitination.

If they are busting liscense drivers for other things than I find it highly disturbing.  However, if they find a car with a non-liscense driver in it and decide to search and find drugs well then that's up for the courts to decide.

point being you need a liscense to drive a car in the US.

With out a link this is all a guess.

Actually, it is in there.  The constitution gives the right of the government to check commerce.  Provided you are not doing business with or out of your car, they have no right to tell you what you can do with it.

[bj229r]

If ya haven't a license, then you have no insurance---prolly 1/3 of ALL the salamanders driving around in FLA have no insurance (and many of them cannot speak English).