For those of you who've been following this blog for a while, you may remember a story I posted in March of last year involving a military field grade officer at a Border Patrol checkpoint near Uvalde, TX. That initial report was followed up with another post several months later containing additional video footage and commentary regarding the incident.

In that incident, Border Patrol agents harassed and attempted to intimidate an active duty military officer, with multiple combat deployments, at a suspicionless checkpoint inside the country no where near an international border for over thirty minutes despite having no legitimate reason to believe he had violated any law.

The Border Patrol agents appeared largely uninterested in evidence of the officer's citizenship status despite being offered an active duty military ID, driver's license and U.S. Passport. Rather, the agents were much more concerned with whether or not the officer rolled his window all the way down then if he was 'legally' within the country.

To justify the extended detention, agents lied about the sequence of events at the checkpoint. They also demanded to know where the officer worked and who his commanding officer was - information completely unnecessary to determine immigration status at an immigration checkpoint. Indeed, throughout the videotaped encounter, it was pretty clear the Border Patrol agents (not actually patrolling the border) were using the 'immigration' checkpoint as an opportunity to condition the general public to be obedient to arbitrary interference in their right to travel inside the country absent individualized suspicion.

 

Continue reading Here:

http://saladin-avoiceinthewilderness.blogspot.com/2011/03/border-pa...

 

Includes video footage that will make your blood boil.