TSA setting up X-Ray checkpoints on highways

[rambone]

The TSA is setting up roadside checkpoints, using what they call "VIPR Teams" (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response). They are making people wait in lines and be X-rayed using mobile radiation trucks. These teams are a merged group of local, state, and federal enforcers with a common mission: reminding you what the New America is all about.

No probable cause, no warrants. No constitution, no illusions of freedom here.


TSA VIPR inspection program targets truck fleets | BulkTransporter.com

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrheqdqqj4A"]YouTube - Feds Radiating Americans at Roadside Checkpoints[/ame]

 

[eatsnopaste]

You did read the article didn't you? It is for COMMERCIAL vehicles only. You know, those people who make a living driving all our stuff around? The ones that have to have a special CDL. The ones who can be pulled over for any reason to have their load and driving log checked? The ones that are forced to pull over at weigh stations entering and leaving states? Oh...maybe when your thread says "people" and "long lines" and "x-ray" it was just me thinking that you are fear mongering.

 

[rambone]

You did read the article didn't you? It is for COMMERCIAL vehicles only. You know, those people who make a living driving all our stuff around? The ones that have to have a special CDL. The ones who can be pulled over for any reason to have their load and driving log checked? The ones that are forced to pull over at weigh stations entering and leaving states? Oh...maybe when your thread says "people" and "long lines" and "x-ray" it was just me thinking that you are fear mongering.

Oh, well how embarrassing. I didn't notice the lines of trucks in the video either.

Does the constitution say that if you are driving a truck the 4th Amendment doesn't apply to you? Are truck drivers just pieces of meat that the feds can put into their mobile microwave ovens?

Can you think of any programs that get rolled out on one "unpopular" group and then onto everyone?? I can!!

LOL. Way to stick up for freedom!!

 

[longbow]

They must know something to be looking like that..............what for?

 

[public servant]

How is this any different than mandatory weigh stations along interstates. They've been doing that for years.

I also think they've been using x-ray and explosive detection devices on shipping containers at seaports in the US for quite some time. What's the difference?

 

[Armed Eastsider]

You did read the article didn't you? It is for COMMERCIAL vehicles only. You know, those people who make a living driving all our stuff around? The ones that have to have a special CDL. The ones who can be pulled over for any reason to have their load and driving log checked? The ones that are forced to pull over at weigh stations entering and leaving states? Oh...maybe when your thread says "people" and "long lines" and "x-ray" it was just me thinking that you are fear mongering.

Trucking is so ridiculously over-regulated as it is. This is a joke.

If you deliver to Eli Lilly downtown Indy, you have to go through a giant x ray machine in a very obscure, unmarked garage on Drover street north of Morris. The security guards there, by the way, are generally pricks.

 

[public servant]

Don't deliver to Eli Lilly...problem solved.

 

[hornadylnl]

Trucking is a privilege not a right.

 

[eatsnopaste]

Does the constitution say that if you are driving a truck the 4th Amendment doesn't apply to you? Are truck drivers just pieces of meat that the feds can put into their mobile microwave ovens?

I'm pretty sure the drivers aren't x-rayed

Can you think of any programs that get rolled out on one "unpopular" group and then onto everyone?? I can!!

So this is a slippery slope? first x-rays for commercial containers then...breaking into your house to check your fridge for out of date milk? Go get some more tin foil for your hat!

I'm beginning to believe that maybe there should be a few more restrictions on the 1st amendment!

 

[Armed Eastsider]

Don't deliver to Eli Lilly...problem solved.

And lose my job for refusing to follow work instructions? Sounds great.

 

[rambone]

I'm pretty sure the drivers aren't x-rayed

I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter. Illegal and unconstitutional, either way. And the TSA has no problem X-raying people, by the way. Perhaps you have heard of their airport security measures. I'm sure I know who's side you're on though.

So this is a slippery slope? first x-rays for commercial containers then...breaking into your house to check your fridge for out of date milk? Go get some more tin foil for your hat!

I'm beginning to believe that maybe there should be a few more restrictions on the 1st amendment!

Tin foil hat... yeah... Is there some kind of class where they teach people to say that, when debating somebody who are upset with unconstitutional programs? How can it be "tinfoil" if it is in the headlines?

Lol, cool censorship joke. Sorry if you got offended from this news story. And that I disagree with government checkpoints. And unwarranted searches. And X-raying citizens. And merging local and federal troops. And the death of the 4th amendment.


Here you go, I baked you a cake! Everything is right in the world again! We are safe and free in America!

 

[nawainwright]

How is this any different than mandatory weigh stations along interstates. They've been doing that for years.

I also think they've been using x-ray and explosive detection devices on shipping containers at seaports in the US for quite some time. What's the difference?

To a certain degree those weigh stations are to inform the drivers what roads are and are not safe for them to drive on, based on their weight.

 

[Armed Eastsider]

To a certain degree those weigh stations are to inform the drivers what roads are and are not safe for them to drive on, based on their weight.

How do you figure that? That doesnt make any sense at all. Weigh stations are equivelant to LEOs who sit on the side of the highway with a radar gun. They are nothing but fishing expeditions. Its just about revenue.

 

[patience0830]

yup

How do you figure that? That doesnt make any sense at all. Weigh stations are equivelant to LEOs who sit on the side of the highway with a radar gun. They are nothing but fishing expeditions. Its just about revenue.

AMEN Brother. The weigh station is definitely NOT to let truckers know what roads are safe for their travel. They ARE an enforcement branch of government with federal blessing to increase truck safety and increase state revenue.

nawainwright has obviously never been inspected at a weigh station. The information about which roads a trucker can use safely is necessarily aquired by the trucker on his own. Some states don't even post the restrictions against vehicles over a certain length on some state routes(VA is one) and they'll still write you a ticket for being on it.

 

[SemperFiUSMC]

How is this any different than mandatory weigh stations along interstates. They've been doing that for years.

I also think they've been using x-ray and explosive detection devices on shipping containers at seaports in the US for quite some time. What's the difference?

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Trucking is so ridiculously over-regulated as it is. This is a joke.

If you deliver to Eli Lilly downtown Indy, you have to go through a giant x ray machine in a very obscure, unmarked garage on Drover street north of Morris. The security guards there, by the way, are generally pricks.

They're protecting the vaccine supply.

 

[trnsplntfrmohio]

Trucking is a privilege not a right.

so now having a buisiness and making a living is no longer a right?

last time i checked we have the right to life, and in order to have the right to life we need to work to make money to pay for food and water and shelter to survive. you take that right to work away you are taking away the right to life, of course if you just want everyone to rely on the government for free hand outs....

 

[ocsdor]

And lose my job for refusing to follow work instructions? Sounds great.

Many people in this country's history lost a lot more than just a job to create/maintain a free country.

 

[ocsdor]

It is for COMMERCIAL vehicles only...

... for now.

 

[rambone]

... for now.

I don't drive a truck so I don't care, and I fail to see how it will ever affect me.

 

[srad]

They must know something to be looking like that..............what for?

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