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Local City Police along with the County Sheriff and State Police will be stopping people on the roads this Friday to check to see if they are sober or not. Now they have no probable cause other than these people are out driving on the roadway on a late Friday Night and MIGHT be drinking before driving. But the vast majority of people on the roads at this time are not drinking so why are they being stopped along with the drunks.

We have become a Police State and the Police have gotten authority (I guess the stupid Court Justices some where agreed that they can do this legally) to Stop people for no reason other than they want to check everyone driving through this high accident area to make sure that everyone is sober.

I don't remember them doing this when I was younger. Now I enjoy some wild turkey or Gin or Vodka once in a while at I no longer drink and drive. When I was younger I'd go out and drink beer with my friends and party and then go back home late at night. But as you grow older that gets old and you settle down with the family and stay home more and drink less. Maybe others drink more and some drink less. YMMV.

Anyway I object to the police stopping me when I'm not drinking and driving through these police check points. While I've never been stopped.. YET... I liken these stops to the Nazi SS back in the 1940 in Western Europe after Germany invaded the low land countries and occupied Western Europe. Now of course our State Police are not going around rounding up people and putting them in the gas chambers like the Nazi's did but they are throwing people in jail just for drinking and driving. While I do agree that people who drink and drive are dangerous to others on the roads I question the stopping of everyone. Now in the old days people who were drinking and driving were going all over the road and going down the highways the wrong way and the police just noticed their erratic driving and pulled them over. But they didn't pull everyone else over and check them at the time. No, They focused on the erratic drunk driver only because they had probable cause to pull them over and stop the. What has changed? Why have they changed their methods of enforcement. Who gave them this new authority. What courts were involved in doing this and what is the case history. Any lawyers out there know the answers to these last three questions. I'd like to do some research if it's not too hard and figure out why they are allowed to do this. Our Bill of Rights has not gone though the Constitutional Methods of changing the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Three Quarters of all the States have not voted to change the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and all the other amendments to our US Constitution. But the courts have made ruling that in effect changed the Bill of rights without follow the rules required by our US Constitution.

This is to me ILLEGAL SEARCH and SEIZERS. Plain and simple. We are losing our freedoms that our founding fathers fought and died for when we gained our independence from the British Empire and became a nation instead of a colony of Great Britain. Back in those days the British Soldier were able to break into homes and kick the owners out and set up barracks for the British Soldiers in those homes and business. So there was a reason why our founding fathers gave us the bill of rights. The right to be secure in our homes and business. The right to not be searched without probable cause. The right to bear arms and protect our homes and persons. Remember they used words like "SHALL" to emphasis these rights. Shall not be infringed.

Now back in the 1700's our USA population was much different than today. We have way more people living in the USA these days and we have many more new laws and rules to follow. But do you think that our basis rights should be trumped by these laws without following the procedures set out in our Constitution to change the Constitution? I think that we are going down a very slippery slope. Those with the power can do what they want these days and we have not protested enough to stop it. Our founding fathers would have risen up in Arms to put a stop to what the Government is doing if this were happening back in the 1700. The world is a changing. But is it for the better or worse?

Have the Indiana State and City Ordinances drinking and driving laws surpassed the US Constitution? Did these laws do an end run around our flanks and run over our front lines of defense with the help of Justices that can't read and follow the US Constitution Properly? IMHO I think so.

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