Thats all true Bob. But what really happened in THIS incident?
If the checkpoint is legal and it wasnt a "step out so we can search your car" type set-up and there was a dog hit then I dont think that what you wrote applies to this situation.
If these guys ARE running a border style search checkpoint then I would take issue with it. If its run like a normal CP (temp stop, a few questions, dog run around etc.) then my opinion is a little different.
From what I've read, half the dogs out there will hit on me. There's your PC.
Catch is, I don't do & never have. Various forensic surveys of American currency have shown that the percentage contaminated with cocaine, especially in big cities, ranges from 75 percent to 97 percent. According to Barbara Grantland, who is the national president of Forfeiture Endangers Americans' Rights (FEAR), "
The sorting belts at the Federal Reserve have this residue on them. Janet Reno's money has drugs on it. You have money with drugs on it in your pocket right now."
As Justice Souter stated in his dissent in Illinois v. Caballes:
"The infallible dog, however, is a creature of legal fiction... [T]heir supposed infallibility is belied by judicial opinions describing well-trained animals sniffing and alerting with less than perfect accuracy, whether owing to errors by their handlers, the limitations of the dogs themselves, or even the pervasive contamination of currency by cocaine... In practical terms, the evidence is clear that the dog that alerts hundreds of times will be wrong dozens of times.
Once the dog’s fallibility is recognized, however... the sniff alert does not necessarily signal hidden contraband, and opening the container or enclosed space whose emanations the dog has sensed will not necessarily reveal contraband or any other evidence of crime."
From everything I've seen on this, and related cases, it's the USBP setting up Border Inspection stations, miles from any actual border, airport, port, or other 'point of entry'. Kind of like building a Navy base in the middle of the Mohave.
So what's it all mean? It means that Bob is going to stay the hell away from Arizona (where most of these stories are coming from) and relocate his butt somewhere more than 100 miles from the US Border to minimize his risk of such nonsense. Hopefully they won't slap a checkpoint between me and the supermarket in the mean time as I rarely travel with all my papers. Of course, should I run into such, and they taze me, I hope it's a cute brunette, because than I can tell my friends her touch sent me tingling. LOL
