Some of you commenters are the first to offer condolences and beg for something to be done when William publishes stories about our teens dying in DUI crashes.
When a single mother is killed on Hwy 29, you’re quick to respond “Something should be done”.

But when area law enforcement actually takes a preventative stand you jump on your “constitutional” grand stand and holler about your rights. You complain that the law enforcement “should find something better to do”.

please see the 1990 Supreme Court Case, “Michigan Department of State Police Vs. Stitz.”

In short, it has already been ruled legal – any arguments against are invalid.
to invalidate the checkpoints, you would have to get a case to the supreme court and argue successfully against the previous decision.

Concerning the right to drive:

Your movements are not restricted. How you move about can be.
see Apthecker vs. Secretary of State
and Kent vs. Dulles.

There are other cases which further define how these regulations may be implemented.

The basic logic behind a driver’s license:
the ability to travel down a road is a right.
but the state has a vested interest in making sure that you can safely do so.

therefore, you may walk down the side of a road with minimum expectations, but if you want to go by your own car, you must demonstrate the ability to do so.

a driver’s licence is the means by which the state tests your ability. this falls within the state’s right to regulate the means by which you travel.

by the logic of the other side, the right to fly exists. therefore, the FAA is illegal.

the existence of a right is not absolute. it is the state’s function to achieve a balance between what is necessary for the government and society to function, and the maximum protection of a right where it exists.

This is covered in Florida Statutes Chapter 316, 322, and others.

@joey4rights and others:

the laws exist for a reason. in the case of cars and drivers, it’s because people are stupid when they try to drive in groups.

need an example? just remember that people are actually having to be told every day how to merge from three lanes down to two on I-10 as you travel west bound towards Highway 29.

The Department of Motor vehicles has actually released books and video on how to merge properly. but every day at 4.30 p/m there is a fresh backup from hell, because even after licensing people are too stupid to follow simple laws meant to keep things moving smoothly.

so yeah, let’s go with the idea that licenses are illegal and see how that sorts itself out.