Title: DUI Checkpoints Just the Tip of the Iceberg, Cops Now Going Directly into Bars with Breathalyzers Source:
Free Thought Project URL Source:http://thefreethoughtproject.com/du ... eberg-cops-bars-breathalyzers/ Published:May 24, 2015 Author:Matt Agorist Post Date:2015-05-24 14:01:01 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:1574 Comments:15
Sacramento cops are rolling out a new program this Memorial day to allegedly combat drunk drivers. While the reasoning for this new program may sound just, its implementation is anything but.
If you are out in a bar this weekend, be prepared to have multiple officers come in and ask the patrons in the bar to blow into a breathalyzer.
DUI roadblocks are apparently not invasive enough, so the Sacremento PD instituted a program to attack the source, the places where alcohol is consumed.
Obviously the site of several armed officers walking into a bar with breathalyzers in hand is a buzz kill, to say the least.
One of the bar patrons who’s been exposed to the program explains, “Admittedly we were a bit put off when we were gonna walk in and saw a bunch of cops with breathalyzers.”
A “bit put off” is an understatement, however.
While these officers are promising not to “test and arrest,” the very idea of police entering private property and having people submit to breathalyzer tests is appalling. The inside of your body is no business of the state and when this clear violation of your personal space is accepted, freedom loses.
This program also leaves the door wide open for entrapment and further rights violating searches by creating unnecessary confrontations.
Hopefully, this program does not take wings and spread to other municipalities as it is a leap forward for the nanny surveillance state, and giant step back for liberty.
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If you are out in a bar this weekend, be prepared to have multiple officers come in and ask the patrons in the bar to blow into a breathalyzer.
The proper response to such a request is: "Sod off you bloody tossers".
I just got to thinking about this. If those cops walk into a private business and suggest patrons volunteer to take a breathlizer, 1) they revoke their right to receive any commission from any arrest they make while in that bar because they do not have jurisdiction to walk into a private business in the first place unless they are called upon by the business itself. Such a notion of suggesting patrons volunteer to taking a breathlizer violates the Fourth Amendment unlawful search and seizure.
They were there to educate and hand out literature.
If I, as a patron, had been in a private bar handing out literature and such to people, I would have been cited for solicitation. What makes those cops think they are above those solicitation laws? Even if they were just handing out literature to educate the people, they could have just done that on the public sidewalk outside the bar where the sidewalk area belongs to the public.
