This is a long video, so here are the highlights:
5:35) Agent whips out his nun chucks in anger
(7:45-8:00) The agent tells me in less than perfect English, “In the Border Patrol Checkpoint, the person’s rights doesn’t matter here.”
(16:50-17:10) I’m told that the police will arrive in less than 10 minutes to arrest me
(19:00-19:40) I’m accused of being a terrorist
(26:20) I’m told that I’m free to go without being searchedThank God we live in a free country! But how long will our freedom last if we ignore our Bill of Rights?
The highest power in the US government is the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land…not border patrol agents on a power trip that are about 75 miles from the border.
He is either correct about the law or he isn’t. If he’s wrong, why would the agents let him go? Either way, he’s definitely on the list now…hope it was worth it.
After only 30 seconds of this video, I wanted to pull some num chucks on this jackass.
and I’m a pacifist!
So when do we protest these checkpoints
First of all, to the DU McCullough poster’s comment – “hope it was worth it”. Of course it was worth it. And every single US citizen needs to assert the same rights or those rights are and will gradually disappear until you will have no rights at all. Those rights must be asserted, and vigorously defended. Rights that are not asserted in the face of police overstepping the bounds of the law, are no rights at all.
Second, one of the biggest mistakes that these border agents made is in not having LOCAL authorities (State or county police) present who are properly the ones to require the display of a driver’s license which shows one has the right to operate the motor vehicle on that highway. That is totally outside the authority of these border agents and the citizen asserting that was exactly correct. We cannot have federal police running around the country setting up checkpoints and demanding to see “your papers”. There is nothing in the law (especially in the supreme law of the land, the Constitution) that permits such a practice. We are a nation of laws, Constituionally passed and Constitutionally enforced laws that properly reflect what, we the people have permitted them to do. There is a damn good reason that those kind of laws are to be enforced by LOCAL officers – not ones from a federal alphabet agency.
Third, the repeated calls to their “superiors” (now there is an interesting choice of a word) to check and see what they were going to do with this annoying person bent on asserting his rights, tells you everything you need to know about this situation. By doing so, they tacitly admitted that they were well beyond their defined authority. They were admitting that much of this border patrol checkpoint was based on bluff and bluster which they are counting on will not be challenged by 99% of drivers passing through (much to the shame of the rest of the drivers passing that point). Their “superiors” well understood that point, hence the instructions to cut him loose. They never had the authority in the first place to do what they were attempting to do to this driver and the only way they could get that authority legally was for him to give it to them, which he refused to do. The superiors wisely decided to withdraw the bluff, but continue to work that bluff on the other 99%. Most people are sheeple, unfortunately.
And just to make the point, the writer of these words is not a young, still-wet-behind-the ears who doesn’t know what he is talking about. I am 68 years old and a former Arizona deputy sheriff who’s own brother was killed in the line of duty while enforcing Arizona law.
! Greg Allen is also an idiot
This person is entirely within his rights, the border agent cannot require an American citizen to submit to any of those things, nor can they pull a weapon on an American citizen who is not breaking the law. That agent needs to be punished and likely fired, people like that, who don’t understand the limitations of their jobs, shouldn’t have them. He comes off like a rent-a-cop wannabe who just likes power and has a badge to back it up.
Bravo to that guy that in the Car.
And why is this “leave a reply” box typing as if it’s the Hebrew alphabet, from right to left????
That all being said, from the start he wasn’t nice or pleasant to the border people. I’ll bet he came off like a punk without intending to. Why couldn’t he talk to the guy? Not rolling down the window just pissed off the guys who then start to think about teaching the kid a lesson.
He could have acted a bit more like an adult, and not some undercover college rabblerouser ‘standing up to the man’
What a stupid jackass. Showing off how “smart” he is. So, according to this, the border patrol stops a truck full of illegals but cannot check it because they don’t have a search warrant? Or a drug loaded truck can’t be searched? I passed thru a checkpoint like the one this stupid passed and I was in/out in no time. I want the border patrol to be able to do their job and if one has nothing to hide, cooperating is nothing but helping them to control the illegal drug and border crossing.
I wonder, what was this rat hiding? What was he afraid of?
The agents should have asked just one question: your ID please! No ID, no driver’s license? pull aside or else. Instead, they let the rat go. I’m sure he must’ve had something hidden, drugs, guns, illegals in the trunk, who knows.
In this case the border patrol failed in doing their job by letting him go. The cacamaniac should be in JAIL!
Thank G’d for patriots like this. If we let FEAR trump the constitution, the idea that actually is the USA dies.
Iphone posting doesn’t work at all!!!!
Writing right-to-left is very comfortable for me here in Israel. Maybe you want me to spell English words with Hebrew characters?
So far the new site fails.
I would guess there is some location-base style format that is imposed by the software (that is, it expects that I’m going to use Hebrew because my IP address is in Israel?
Whatever.
What would Thomas Jefferson do?
For that matter, what would George Jefferson do?
abc==Why then you would be happy to bend over and spread em. If you got nothing up there, no reason to complain right? THE ISSUE is privacy. Your home, asshole, and car are all areas you have a right to privacy in absent reasonable cause to be stopped and questioned. Completely IGNORANT to post otherwise..
What if ABC was a drug mule? There is no reason to suspect he isn’t until proven innocent. So everywhere he goes, he should be randomly scanned, colonoscopied for drugs and other things he could be carrying. After all, everyone is a potential criminal/terrorist, and should be treated like one, right?
I think we should let the penultimate dummies make the laws, and the dumbest enforce them. That would have excluded Rich Young from a job in law enforcement. Sorry Mr. Young.
Really, shouldn’t we all receive random beatings on a semi-periodic basis to ensure we don’t step out of line? I mean, it is obvious that would be in the public best interest.
?How did it ever come to this?
father time, “what would Jefferson do?”
“What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/fascism.html
fascism.
be afraid.
be very afraid.
Wow what an idiot.
I guess the guy should have shouted, “Don’t taze me bro!”
I watched it again today, still strikes me the same. The guy started getting all defensive and the cops/border patrol started to wonder what he had to hide.
what would the outcome have been if he’d aquiesed to the seach and questions and even said, “You know officer I know your doing your job, but I got to tell you I’m highly irritated by this”
He would have been on his way in 5 minutes and he could have phoned a lawyer to see if he had a case. That would have brought more powerful people into play on his side.
Instead he comes off all cockey and know it all. Kinda like those G20 protesters with slingshots…
So like #78 said…”Wow what an idiot”. Same goes for that Baptist pastor.
the whole point here is what is a border? to me it is were you cross into another country, not 100 miles into it, call your congressman and let them know you are against border patrols where no border exist? they broke so many amnedments including false arrrest my lawyer would have this settled out in about 6 mos. can wwe call this the old soviet union or hitlers germany? stopping innocent person in search of weapons explosives, or an illegal person, in Hitlers germany that person was called a Jew in the new america its a muslum or mexican, soon we will have the “Diary of Anna Francia”. I wonder when we will start making camps for these people,wait they already have started, I think the USA calls them FEMA camps, and they are popping up all over. Hmm cock and load America this is scary stuff.