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Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint
    #19287878 - 12/17/13 10:12 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint

A supposedly “voluntary” survey checkpoint run by a private firm in Reading, Pennsylvania on behalf of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy caused outrage when residents said they were forced off the road into a car park and coerced into giving cheek swabs as a result of an intimidating police presence.

The Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation was hired by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to run the checkpoint, during which motorists were quizzed about their driving habits.

Reading resident Ricardo Nieves said that he had to repeatedly refuse to take part in the survey over a 5 minute period before the was allowed to leave. Nieves noted that the presence of city police and a police car with flashing lights was designed to “intimidate motorists” into submission and “gave the checkpoint an air of authority it would not otherwise have had,” according to the Reading Eagle.

Nieves told the City Council Monday that the company’s hiring of police officers to help run the checkpoint was “a gross abuse of power on many levels” and that the firm running it refused to divulge why they were demanding to take swabs of people’s cheeks, with Nieves asserting, “Clearly it was for DNA.”

City Police Chief William M. Heim later remarked that the cheek swabs were to test for the presence of prescription drugs, dismissing Nieves’ assertion that the police presence was coercive by claiming, “People are not pressured by police presence to do something they don’t want to.”

“Our rights are being violated more and more every day, it’s another way of government intrusion into our lives,” said Councilman Dennis M. Sterner, complaining that local police were unable to pick up local drug dealers after years of investigations, yet were perfectly happy to pull over motorists on a whim.

“A car driver or passenger cannot be required or pressured into providing a DNA sample and, in fact, can’t be stopped at all except on suspicion of a crime or for a properly conducted sobriety checkpoint,” Mary Catherine Roper, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Pennsylvania, told the newspaper.

However, this hasn’t stopped police across the country running the supposedly “voluntary” checkpoints at the behest of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which in some cases involve the collection of not just saliva but blood too.

Motorists in Fort Worth who were subjected to the same program also complained that the checkpoint did not seem voluntary at all and that police forced them to pull over. It also emerged that even without consent, police were taking “passive alcohol sensor readings” from drivers.

“The NHTSA defended these non-stops by stating everything was “voluntary” and that law enforcement officers were only on hand for “safety” reasons. But the passive alcohol test wasn’t voluntary. And the officers never bothered to point out stopping was voluntary until after the test subjects had actually stopped,” reports TechDirt.

As we reported back in 2010, motorists who refuse to submit to a breath test at DUI checkpoints now face the prospect of police forcibly jabbing a needle in their arm and extracting blood.

Shocking video footage taken at the Gwinnett County jail in Georgia shows police strapping down citizens accused of drunk driving before using a needle forcibly draw blood as victims scream, “what country is this?”


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #19288822 - 12/17/13 02:11 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Police state, anyone?


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: Lord_McLovin] * 2
    #19288834 - 12/17/13 02:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

No thank you, I'm on a low-tyranny diet.


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #19288847 - 12/17/13 02:16 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I don't know if we can really count "infowars.com" as news, though.


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: Enlil] * 2
    #19288977 - 12/17/13 02:47 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

^ So you wouldn't consider this credible because it was posted on infowars?
Do you not believe it happened? If so did you look to verify it?

What would you consider a legitament news source?


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: Enlil] * 5
    #19288993 - 12/17/13 02:53 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Enlil said:
I don't know if we can really count "infowars.com" as news, though.




WTF? Really?

Would the local paper count?

http://readingeagle.com/article/20131217/NEWS/312179910


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: thedream] * 1
    #19289001 - 12/17/13 02:54 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I don't know whether it happened as the site claims or not.  The site is a known conspiracy nutter site, though, so I definitely won't assume it's all true.

There are plenty of legitimate news sources, but I wouldn't assume anything they write is true either...at least not without a bit more.  Infowars, however, is even less credible.  More often than not, if Infowars says something, it's untrue or half-true.


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #19289011 - 12/17/13 02:56 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

That is a far more objective article than the first one you linked.  You should have used that instead of infowars in the first place.


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: Enlil]
    #19289020 - 12/17/13 02:58 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Or perhaps you should have read the article while paying attention.

Had you done so you'd have seen a link.  It's not hard to miss. "according to the Reading Eagle."


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: luvdemshrooms] * 1
    #19289030 - 12/17/13 03:00 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I read the article you linked.  I didn't realize that my obligation was to follow every link on every page you link.  Do I have to follow every link on those pages too?  Is this a six degrees of separation thing?  Or is it more like a "where's waldo?" where I have to keep clicking links until I find whatever the fuck your point is supposed to be?

Was I supposed to click the link about the boston bomber being mind controlled too?


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: Enlil] * 3
    #19289044 - 12/17/13 03:04 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

No. You don't have an obligation to follow every link anymore than I have an obligation to pick and choose sources that suit you.

However, actually following the link would have gone part way to making you appear less foolish today.

It would have taken you a long time to find a point as I wasn't attempting to make one.


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: luvdemshrooms] * 1
    #19289061 - 12/17/13 03:11 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Posting a link to an infowars story in a news forum is foolish.  You might as well link a story from The Onion.


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: Enlil] * 2
    #19289068 - 12/17/13 03:12 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Right. What's the matter. New practice not working out so you spend your day trolling?

Your laziness is not my problem.


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #19289074 - 12/17/13 03:13 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I haven't moved to California yet, so I haven't started the practice.

And I never troll.


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: Enlil]
    #19289086 - 12/17/13 03:18 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

And what about this article screams of a conspiracy?


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: Enlil]
    #19289092 - 12/17/13 03:20 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

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And I never troll.




Right.

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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: thedream]
    #19289111 - 12/17/13 03:24 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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And what about this article screams of a conspiracy?



Nothing.  I was talking about the source more than the actual article. The source routinely posts conspiracy nutter stories and claims.  Sure, they mix some truth in with the lies, but all great manipulators do that.  The problem comes in telling the two apart.


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: Enlil]
    #19289130 - 12/17/13 03:27 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

A problem comes from people who whine about links before looking into the story.

Don't be lazy.


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #19289217 - 12/17/13 03:46 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I read the story before I posted.  I also saw the other links to 9/11 conspiracies and boston bomber conspiracies.  The internet is a large and strange place wherein one can find himself in :tinfoil: land very quickly...


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Re: Pennsylvanians Coerced Into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint [Re: Enlil]
    #19289225 - 12/17/13 03:48 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I mean its just for research right? However, I would not want to contribute to anything that would support swabbing people for drugs as a new form of DUI.
Although, its not like people were getting arrested or anything, at least not yet. Its only a matter of time before the cops will have another tool in their arsenal against getting high.


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