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Just for the record here, I am totally against illegal immigration. I believe that illegals should be deported on sight, and certainly subsequent to any criminal involvement that garners police attention. However, my want for secure borders and responsible immigration does NOT translate into support of Gestapo tactics and violations of the Constitution here at home.
What are they really accomplishing out there anyway? There are millions of illegal immigrants here that are shown amnesty for one reason or another, even after they have been caught in criminal activity in many instances. I am curious as to how this agency even justifies the expense to taxpayers, and what statistics they can provide which would show the effectiveness of these illegal roadblocks. How many illegal immigrants are actually detained, AND DEPORTED, after being stopped at one of these checkpoints. My guess is that it is a token amount, probably less then 1% of total vehicles stopped and citizens harassed.
There is always an excuse for police-state roadblocks though. Drunk drivers, murderer on the loose, and of course illegal immigrants. Like I said, I am no advocate for illegal immigrants by a long shot, but I believe there are far more effective measures that our tax dollars should be applied to, rather then harassing the people with presumptions of guilt.
Homeland Security Checkpoint: Video Blog - Day 1
In this video, a border patrol agent orders another agent to "fuck with him" as the citizen rolls into the checkpoint. He is immediately ordered out of the car. But suddenly they realize, "it's that guy" with the video-camera who has been making a video blog of their activities for years now. The blogger makes a long intro, explaining some facts about these checkpoints, and the interaction is at the end of the clip:
That question, even without an answer, makes most “law-abiding
taxpayers” go into knee-jerk conniptions. The indoctrinated masses all
race to see who can be first, and loudest, to proclaim that it is NEVER
okay to forcibly resist “law enforcement.” In doing so, they also
inadvertently demonstrate why so much of human history has been plagued
by tyranny and oppression.
In an ideal world, cops would do nothing except protect people
from thieves and attackers, in which case shooting a cop would never
be justified. In the real world, however, far more injustice,
violence, torture, theft, and outright murder has been committed IN THE
NAME of “law enforcement,” than has been committed in spite of it. To
get a little perspective, try watching a documentary or two about some
of the atrocities committed by the regimes of Stalin, or Lenin, or
Chairman Mao, or Hitler, or Pol Pot, or any number of other tyrants in
history. Pause the film when the jackboots are about to herd innocent
people into cattle cars, or gun them down as they stand on the edge of a
ditch, and THEN ask yourself the question, “When should you shoot a
cop?” Keep in mind, the evils of those regimes were committed in the
name of “law enforcement.” And as much as the statement may make people
cringe, the history of the human race would have been a lot LESS
gruesome if there had been a lot MORE “cop-killers” around to deal with
the state mercenaries of those regimes.
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