Joe Williams Provides a Checkpoint Update From Atlanta

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I first wrote about Joe Williams from Atlanta and his run-in with a suspicionless sobriety checkpoint back in September of 2010. See:

Atlanta Sobriety Checkpoint Claims Another Victim of Police Authoritarianism

Recently, Joe sent me an update regarding his case. His email appears below:

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Neighborhood Resident Stands Up To ID Roadblock

On July 11, 2013, police in Albemarle County, Virginia setup a roadblock to check ID’s in a residential neighborhood after the police allegedly received several complaints from the public regarding speeding in the area. One resident of the neighborhood directly affected by the heavy-handed police response initially refused to comply with requests to show his ID while being seized at the roadblock and was threatened with physical violence and arrest, as is standard operational procedure by police at such roadblocks, before acquiescing. After passing through the roadblock, the resident responded by making a sign warning other motorists about the roadblock ahead and stood curbside holding it for all to see.

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Checkpoint Forums Now Online

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Back in August of last year, I took Checkpoint USA’s forum offline due to the large amount of spam the forum attracted but was unable to filter. Today, I’m happy to report that an offsite forum dedicated to all things checkpoint and roadblock related is now online.

I encourage folks who are concerned about the growing threat suspiconless checkpoints pose to individual rights in particular and society in general to checkout the forum and participate in the discussion. My thanks go out to those folks who have volunteeered their time and effort to bring the forum online.

Rutherford County Sheriff Deputies Assist Motorists On Independence Day

The above is a video of an illegal detention and search initiated by Deputy Ross at a roadblock conducted by the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Dept. in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on July 4, 2013.

My thanks go out to the videographer for exercising his rights and making sure the incident was captured on video so the public can see for itself how the deputies of the good Sheriff of Rutherford County are ‘protecting’ the people he was placed in office to serve.

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Charges Against Checkpoint USA Dismissed In Court … Again

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In followup to my earlier article. on July 1, 2013 at Pima County’s Consolidated Justice Court, hearing officer Chris Holguin dismissed the single charge of “stopping unnecessarily in the highway” levied against me by Pima County Sheriff Deputy Thomas Audetat after he decided he needed to be someplace else other than the hearing he was responsible for creating in the first place.

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Checkpoint USA Back In Court On Monday

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On Monday July 1, 2013, I’ll be back in Pima County Justice Court defending myself against a bogus traffic citation issued on March 29, 2013 at the SR-86 Milepost 146.6 CBP roadblock. The citation was issued by Pima County Sheriff Deputy Thomas Audetat, badge #6312, at the beheadst of CBP Agent J Grayson for allegedly stopping unnecessarily in the highway, a violation of ARS 28-871A. This despite the fact, I was stopped in accordance with two stop signs placed in the highway and by CBP agents who ordered me to stop.

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Illegal Border Patrol Traffic Stops Get The Attention of the ACLU

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Over the past several years, Roadblock Revelations has published several articles regarding illegal enforcement action by roving patrols manned by armed Border Patrol agents operating no where near an international border. Some of these articles involved me directly – see:

While others did not:

Some have even involved Border Patrol agents or their family members as victims of other overzealous agents conducting illegal roving patrol operations:

Given so many examples of routine lawbreaking by Border Patrol agents not patrolling the border they’re paid to patrol, it was good to finally see some organizations dedicated to fighting unconstitutional government activity finally taking notice earlier this year.

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Police Defendants Pay $210,000 To Settle Illegal Roadblock Lawsuit

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3,451 days after being seized, detained, dragged out of my vehicle & arrested at an illegal general law enforcement roadblock conducted by Tohono O’odham Police Dept. officers with the assistance of Senior Special U.S. Customs agents along with dozens of U.S. Border Patrol agents, Checkpoint USA’s lawsuit has finally settled for $210,000 exactly 3,087 days after it was filed.

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Remaining Silent At A Sobriety Checkpoint

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The video pretty much speaks for itself. Knowing your rights and how to exercise them is a powerful thing. The only thing I’d do differently is only roll down my window an inch or so. No need to give a police officer who has seized you absent suspicion access to the cab of your vehicle and the opportunity to claim he smelled alcohol or drugs.

Utah House Passes Bill To Ban Sobriety Checkpoints

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Good news on the checkpoint front.

Utah’s House of Representatives passed a bill on February 23rd that would effectively ban license and sobriety checkpoints in the state. If passed by Utah’s Senate and signed into law, Utah will become the 12th state in the Union to ban such suspicionless seizures of individuals inside a state’s boundaries.

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