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Big brother watching everywhere you go, everything you do. Safety aspects of these checkpoints aside, another stomp onto your civil liberties that people are apparently willing to set aside. Go big brother Go!



+1 on that thought. Our civil liberties are being taken away little by little with these kinds of things. I know these checkpoints are for safety and they catch criminals. That being true, what if authorities could go house to house randomly doing searches with no warrants or cause? Wouldn't they find a lot of stolen property, drugs, fugitives, guns etc.? Some would say that would be ok with them since they had nothing to hide. Not me brother.


I was once stopped at one of those checkpoints while traveling from Oklahoma back to Missouri to visit my gravely ill Grandmother one night at about 3am. The trooper ask me where I was headed and wanted to search my car since I was alone and from out of state. I told him I really didn't like the idea of him rummaging through my suitcases, clothes, and car. He explained that he could get a dog out there to sniff around my vehicle for drugs. Well, I relented because I figured that they might "drop" something in my car for their trouble. He searched all my belongings and car and of course found nothing.

Before parting, I suggested that he had forgotten to ask for my state approved "traveling documents" Needless to say, he didn't appreciate that very much. I told him I knew he was just doing his job and it wasn't personal.

2003 Speedmaster I won't rise to the occasion, but I'll slide over to it.