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<H1>In AL, PA And TX, Drivers Pulled Over, Asked For Blood And
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<P itemprop="name"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; FONT-SIZE: 14px">No,
this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. No, it isn’t a scene out of a dystopian
novel. It’s just another day in the good ol’ USA.</SPAN></P>
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width=300 height=300></A>In <A
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drivers-paid-for-dna-blood-samples-at-ala-roadblocks/">Alabama</A>,
in <A
href="http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/North-Texas-Drivers-Stopped-at-Roadblock-Asked-for-Saliva-Blood-232438621.html">Texas</A> and
now in <A
href="http://readingeagle.com/article/20131217/NEWS/312179910/1009#.UrF-epFZvG4">Pennsylvania</A>,
drivers have been flagged down by police and told to pull over into a
parking lot so that a survey company can “ask” them for blood and saliva.
<P></P>
<P>What exactly are they “surveying”?<BR><A name=more></A></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>It was part of a government research study aimed at determining the
number of drunken or drug-impaired drivers.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Oh, really? So for a government research study, you enlist the police,
complete with flashing lights and roadblocks, and “ask” people just going
about their daily business to pull over and let you stick a swab in their
mouths and draw their blood?</P>
<P>Listen to this line of reasoning:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is spending
$7.9 million on the survey over three years, said participation was “100
percent voluntary” and anonymous.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Of course — it’s “voluntary”! That’s why we have uniformed cops
standing by to, ah, encourage you.</P>
<P>In Texas:</P>
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<DIV id=paragraph5>But Cope said it didn’t feel voluntary to her —
despite signs saying it was.
<P></P></DIV>
<DIV id=paragraph6>“I gestured to the guy in front that I just wanted to
go straight, but he wouldn’t let me and forced me into a parking spot,”
she said.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>In Pennsylvania:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>The checkpoint was supposed to be voluntary, but Nieves said he had
to refuse several times over a five-minute period before the woman
taking the survey let him go.
<P></P></DIV>
<DIV>What irked Nieves was the presence of city police. He said they
were there – including a police car with flashing lights – to intimidate
motorists, and gave the checkpoint an air of authority it would not
otherwise have had.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Meh, quit your whining. You sound just like people at the airport who
object to having <A
href="http://tsanewsblog.com/214/news/history-repeats-itself-with-tsas-strip-search-tactics/">their
privates pawed</A> or people who object to being unlawfully searched
by<A
href="http://tsanewsblog.com/112/news/tsa-expands-beyond-airport-screening/">VIPR
teams</A> or loony civil libertarians who care that the NSA is
sweeping up everything in sight.</P>
<P>Don’t you people know that <I>The Terrorists Are
Everywhere</I><B>™</B>?!</P>
<P>Don’t you realize that the government is just trying to <I>Keep
You Safe</I><B>™</B>?!</P>
<P>You people don’t appreciate anything.</P>
<P>Oh, and the icing on the authoritarian cake:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV id=paragraph20>He also noted the fine print on a form given to
drivers informs them <B>their breath was tested by “passive alcohol
sensor readings before the consent process has been completed.”
<P></P></B>
<P><B></B></P></DIV>
<DIV id=paragraph21><B>“They’re essentially lying to you when they say
it’s completely voluntary, because they’re testing you at that moment,”
Colosi said.</B></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><A
href="http://duijusticelink.aaa.com/issues/detection/passive-alcohol-sensors">Passive
alcohol sensors</A> are apparently all the rage.</P>
<P>I’m glad that at least a few citizens were troubled, if not outraged,
by this. But you already know that most people — not all, but most —
simply acquiesced. Even those who objected acquiesced. Here’s Kim Cope in
Texas:</P>
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<DIV id=paragraph9>She said she felt trapped.
<P></P></DIV>
<DIV id=paragraph11><B>“I finally did the Breathalyzer test just because
I thought that would be the easiest way to leave,” she said, adding she
received no money.</B></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Okay, I’m not going to rag on Cope and people like her, even though I’m
disgusted that people give in to authority so easily. I understand that
the cops standing by in uniform are a form of coercion, and the cops
understand it, too. That’s why they do it. So I’ll cut her some slack.</P>
<P>But now that those of you reading this know this is happening (and know
it’s wrong, or God almighty I hope you do), there’s no excuse, if it
happens to you — and it might, because <A
href="http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/North-Texas-Drivers-Stopped-at-Roadblock-Asked-for-Saliva-Blood-232438621.html">it’s
going on in 30 cities</A> – for saying you felt caught off guard, you
were taken aback, you didn’t know how to handle it. All those feelings,
when someone <I>is </I>caught off guard, are understandable.</P>
<P>But now that you know, you can do what you’re supposed to do — tell the
cops and the “survey” takers to shove it, and go on your way.</P>
<P>And then make damn sure you tell everyone you know about it. Instead of
posting pictures of beer pong on your Facebook page, and tweeting about
your seats at some football game, maybe you could use the power of social
media to spread the word about the “security” creep in this country.</P>
<P>Oh, but that’s right, silly me — this kind of shit only goes on in
totalitarian societies. We live in a Free
Country<B>™</B>.</P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>