Infowars.com
Steve Watson
June 27, 2014
During Independence Day weekend, a time to celebrate US freedom and
unalienable rights, Americans in Oregon will be subjected to a “blitz”
of ‘no-refusal’ blood-draw checkpoints, as part of a disturbing trend
that now extends nationwide.
Local news station
KVAL reports that State police are re-naming Fourth of July weekend “No Refusal Weekend”, as part of a crack down on drunk driving.
Any driver who is stopped by police and refuses to take an alcohol
breath test will be subjected to a mandatory blood test either at the
scene, at a medical facility, or at the nearest jail.
Anyone who merely questions the breath test could also automatically lose their license for a year.
The police say they will liaise closely with prosecutors and judges
to immediately obtain “blood draw warrants” in an effort to paint the
process up as legal and Constitutional.
“No Refusal enforcement efforts aim to prevent people from avoiding
full accountability,” said Officer Ryan Stone. The process is designed
to force drivers into relenting to breath tests in order to avoid a
potentially harsher penalty if they refuse to cooperate.
The ACLU, previously critical of the practice, lauded the initiative,
saying that obtaining warrants for blood test was “the right way to go
about it in our view,” and “a good thing.”
However, breathalyzer tests have previously been proven to be
inaccurate in a high percentage of cases, with many factors rendering
the results
“little more than scientific guesswork”. Further
research has shown that
police officers often influence the results of breathalyzer tests,
resulting in inaccurately high readings. Blood tests can also produce
false high readings of alcohol levels if they are not conducted quickly
and properly.
This information is important, many argue, because it means that
mandatory tests could provide police with self-incriminating evidence.
In previous examples of police conducting the practice, horror
stories have emerged of Americans being forcibly restrained and having
their blood extracted.
The following footage filmed last year in Georgia shows cops
strapping down citizens to gurneys, before using a needle to forcibly
draw blood as the victim screams, “WHAT COUNTRY IS THIS?”
Even those who show no resistance whatsoever are
forcibly restrained and have their heads pressed down by an officer
using his elbow.
“We all are American citizens and you guys have me
strapped to a table like I’m in Guantanamo f***ing Bay,” complains
another victim of the blood draw.
Attorneys have argued that the forced blood draws are an unreasonable
search, and constitute a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Georgia and Orgeon are two out of numerous states that enforce the
federally sponsored ‘no refusal’ checkpoints. In 2005,
the Supreme Court ruled that it is not unconstitutional to hold down Americans and forcefully withdraw blood.
A January 2013 ruling affirmed that a warrant must be obtained for the process, although police could dispense with the warrant requirement in an “emergency”.
In some states, decades old implied consent law, which allowed
drivers to say no to blood or urine tests, has been overturned to allow
the process to take place.
The practice of cops drawing blood at the side of the road has been
in place in some areas since 1995 but the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration has indicated that the program is ultimately
intended to be introduced nationwide.
As Alex Jones exposed over fifteen years ago, the eventual plan,
under a 1993 executive order signed by Bill Clinton, is to institute
mandatory blood and urine testing at the DMV.
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