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I’ll know better next time.
Should you happen to be lacking a hand up your ass, this will do the trick.
I’ve crossed many times without serious incident. One amusing crossing to Vancouver: my wife and I, our niece and her husband were all going up for the day. The niece is a doctor, her husband a science teacher, my wife an MBA and I’m a college grad. In addition, my wife and I were in the Foreign Service for a number of years.
For some reason, on the way back into the US, the guard asked the niece where she graduated college. She told him LSU. With a smirk, he says “Oh, Louisiana; parlez vous Francaise?” She said “Oui”, and we all commenced speaking to each other in French. The guard went slack-jawed, clearly not understanding what we were saying, grumbled something or other and waved us through. 
Police do NOT have a duty to protect us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html?_r=0
The border patrol often sets up roadblocks on I-93 about 50-60 miles from the Canadian border on busy weekends - especially the biker weekends in Laconia. They’re usually looking for biker gangs coming down from Montreal.
I still don’t understand why we have to be subject to border-type controls within the United States. Agents at these checkpoints always inquire where one is headed, even when one is simply on a short distance trip between two points in the United States (i.e. from Las Cruces, NM to Alamogordo, NM).
That sounds like a sovereign citizen script. The movement is in Canada too.
There is a gentleman who has a Youtube-Channel (“CheckpointUSA”) where he posts videos like this one:
I don’t know if we can really criticize this guy. He’s stopping at checkpoints inside the U.S. near the border. I’d give 'em hell, too. At the border, I’ll be nice. But someone needs to stand against “voluntary” checkpoints where their main tactic of compliance is intimidation.
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From who? Mexican fruit pickers making $100 a day?
I believe you, but this was an east-west highway.
Those are terrible, terrible decisions. Failure to penalize police misconduct, incompetence or lethargy will only lead to more of it.
Guess I now understand where SYG came from.
Yes.
Really? I’ve only ever heard that kind of talk from Americans. I guess I just never encountered anyone like that back home.
How is that “too much information” Sounds to me like it is the minimum amount of information needed to answer the question. What would you suggest? Just saying “Transit” or something?
What do you mean by “terrible?”
It’s perhaps disconcerting to learn the police have no individual duty to protect you. Is that what you mean? Or is there some legal basis the court missed?
The DC case was consolidated for appeal by another DC case raising similar concerns. A motorist stopped for a red light was hit by another car, then assaulted by the occupants of that car, suffering a broken jaw. When the responding police officer arrived, he ordered the motorist to step away from the assailants and stop demanding to see their identification. The officer then failed to get that information himself; the driver was thus unable to sue anyone for the damages her (and his car) suffered. So he sued the officer.
Speaking as to the similar issues in both cases, the court said:
Was that not correct?
They are there.
Were I ruling in those cases, I would say no. The “general police response to crimes” should be diligent and competent. Citizens who suffer damages as a result of otherwise-inexcusable police misconduct, incompetence or lethargy should be compensated by the officer’s political subdivision. If I were a legislator, I would vote for a civil liability law to that effect. Judges can generally sort out the wheat from the chaff when it comes to such lawsuits.