[quote=spdrun]This didn’t have to do with a ticket or money. This had to do with my rights, and I remained calm while refusing to answer. It’s pretty sad how many Americans willingly accept the “they’re keeping us safe”/”they’re just doing their jobs” excuse when faced with increased restrictions. Lastly, if the border was properly policed, the interior checkpoints wouldn’t be needed.[/quote]
I agree with all of this. But usually I have a loaded trunk, kid and/or dog with me in the 100+ deg heat and reservations to spend the night somewhere in NM or El Paso. Both are long drives from SD. I need to get down the road and can’t fvck around for hours next to these minions’ “secondary” trailer drinking their “free” water while I d!ck around with expounding my “constitutional rights” to them. In one case, I was towing a small trailer:
In my case, traveling thru AriDzona is necessary to reach my destinations so I must accept reality, whatever that may be.
As children, we used to stand on the “hump” in the backseat of our parents’ cars and crane our necks, blocking the rear-view mirror on road trips, then hang our bare feet out the windows while counting oil pumps and looking for different license plates. There were no seat belts in cars and a LOT of interior room. Babies slept in thin nylon beds on the rear floorboards or the rear windshield compartment of a Barracuda (if it was cooler weather). It was legal all over the US to carry around a pickup-bed-load of people with varying shades of skin color, along with a giant thermos or sodas on dry ice. Cars were very heavy and there wasn’t the amount of commercial truck traffic on the road then as there is today. Nor were there very many interstate highways.
