Words mean what the government says they mean, not what you thought they meant. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Where is the “border”.
As it turns out, it isn’t where the United States ends – and Mexico begins. Kind of like the Fourth Amendment doesn’t mean:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Which has no such meaning – as a practical matter – because the courts have ruled the Fourth means the government can subject anyone who happens to be out driving to a search, just because he is out driving. Because requiring him to stop, present his identification and allow a government enforcer to look him and his vehicle over isn’t “unreasonable” or even a “search” if it is “brief” and the government has a “compelling” interest in (ostensibly) preventing “drunks” from driving.
And also because – by dint of having a driver’s license – he has given his “implied consent” to be searched.
Never mind that he consented to no such thing.
The supreme court has ruled that you do not have the right to be secure in your person, papers or effects if you are anywhere deemed ‘public’ and therefore must produce your travel papers and demonstrate to the offending officer that you are in compliance with the state’s demands. The constitution was a contract holding the government accountable, the bill of rights was an attempt to make it clear that the government does not possess rights, the citizens do. It is a dead letter, offering no protection to the individual.
The secondary checkpoint was part of the constitution free zone just inside Texas that actually belongs to the UN.
It was like a gas station with no pumps in the middle of the road out in the desert.
We had some weed on us, under an ounce, and two Chow dogs saved our asses (h/t) as they growled and bared teeth at the dogs of the state as we went behind a trailer and tossed the happy smoke.
The republic has already been sold out by plot and parcel and read earlier about the governor of Kansas vetoing a limit to what amount of land foreigners can buy.
CCP/PRC will jump all over this but you can’t grow weed in Kansas like they do in Oklahoma and other places.
Societies too stupid to exist will get their wish of being put out of misery.