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Originally Posted by 450slcguy
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Have you ever gone throught a sobriety checkpoint?
Have you ever gone through a seal belt checkpoint?
These are all examples of unreasonable searches without probable cause. Maybe they can be justified for safety, but they are intruding on your constitutional rights regardless of the reasoning behind them.
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So you think that you have a constitutional right to drive under the influence?
Please provide me with that portion of the Constitution that gives you the right to drive a vehicle upon a public road while under the influence...I must have missed that lecture while attending law school.
In any event, the examples that you gave are not examples of unreasonable search and seizure w/o probable cause.
When you are stopped at a sobriety chekpoint, to use one of your examples, the police officers do not search you or seize any evidence unless they first have probable cause that you are driving under the influence (or that another crime has been committed--for example if they see the 4 "k" bags of cocaine in plain view on your backseat).
I have personally observed and monitored dozens of sobriety checkpoints and all the cops do is look at you and maybe ask a couple of questions and if you are OK then you go on your merry way. If the officers, however, observe possible signs of intoxication, then you would be asked to pull over and a field sobriety test may be administered. If you check out OK, then you are free to go.
The checkpoints are announced ahead of time and the location is flagged so that if you don't want to be "subjected" to that major inconvenience, you can always drive around it.
I have never heard of a seat-belt checkpoint, but your jurisdiction may be different from mine. I do think that helmet laws and seat belt laws are a waste of time. If people are stupid enough to drive w/o a belt on or ride w/o a helmet, then let them do it. Just deny them public benefits when they get injured in a crash.
The rest of your examples are just plain inaccurate. You have no right of privacy when you are in a public place.