On November 26th, I was stopped & seized for about the 50th time since the beginning of 2008. The seizure took place at an internal suspicionless Homeland Security checkpoint along Southern Arizona...
On November 26th, I was stopped & seized for about the 50th time since the beginning of 2008. The seizure took place at an internal suspicionless Homeland Security checkpoint along Southern Arizona's SR86 near mile post 146. SR86 is an East-West public highway located over 40 miles North of the border and never intersects the border at any point.
During the stop, Agent Gilmore admitted he knew who I was & all three agents told me I wasn't being detained. Nonetheless, these facts didn't stop the agents from refusing to allow me to go about my lawful business, choosing instead to escalate the encounter by requesting that I move to secondary inspection for more intensive scrutiny absent my consent or any articuable suspicion.
While continuing to deny that I was being detained and refusing to allow me to leave, the agents threatened me with arrest for impeding their operations.
After close to eight minutes of being unlawfully detained, a Border Patrol supervisor eventually arrives on-scene and wastes no time in telling me that I'm free to go with no further scrutiny.
Given the circumstances surrounding this extended non-detention, the only reasonable explanation that can be attributed to the agent's behavior is a desire to train the traveling public to be obedient to the whims of any federal agent with a shiny badge & a gun.
For those of you who actually think the government cares about the border, how many illegal aliens do you think crossed unchallenged 40 miles to the South because three Border Patrol agents were harassing Americans 40 miles to the North at a suspicionless checkpoint?
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I normally don't devolve into grammar nazism, especially given the fact I make more than my fair share of grammar mistakes, but I couldn't resist the temptation in this instance...
I always enjoy comments from individuals such as yourself DwiDeputy. Here you've gone out of your way to call me an idiot yet you don't know the difference between "your" and "you're".
Perhaps a remedial English class would help you make your YouTube comments less revealing about yourself.
Do you have nothing better to do with your time than drive through a check point on purpose just to make an ass out of your self. Do you think your a hero for the anti-government crowd. D you ever think of the people behind you that are waiting inline to go through. Every second you make them sit there is another chance for them to be rear ended from another vehicle. If you don't like going through the check point then don't go that way. These folks have a hard enough job with out your crap.
Poor deluded DwiDeputy. I'm not holding up traffic. That would be the domain of the federal agents who are seizing individuals absent suspicion or consent along a public highway no where near the border they're supposed to be patrolling.
With regards to avoiding the checkpoint. I would if I could but I can't so I wont.
I see you still haven't figured out that "your" is the possessive form of you and shouldn't be used in situations better served by the combination of "you" and "are" into "you're".
I'm guessing you're (see the usage here) not a very good student DwiDeputy. Probably too full of yourself to realize your brain (see the usage here) could use a workout in a remedial English class.
CheckpointUsa is definitly the hero of the "The DHS should follow the US Constitution crowd" These officers have no respect for the people going through their checkpoints who pay their salary.
Good work here teaching these trained thugs the limits of their power. I love how confused and disoriented they get when a person is not intimidated by their tactics and knows the constitution. They look so lost and dejected when their bully tactics don't work. I love how they try and blame YOU for holding up traffic when it is them preventing you from travelling freely.
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Perhaps a remedial English class would help you make your YouTube comments less revealing about yourself.
With regards to avoiding the checkpoint. I would if I could but I can't so I wont.
I'm guessing you're (see the usage here) not a very good student DwiDeputy. Probably too full of yourself to realize your brain (see the usage here) could use a workout in a remedial English class.