OK. I never said it was easy. In fact, Terry makes fighting a roadblock very difficult. You of all people should recognize the unconstitutionality of a roadblock stopping anyone. Just cuz it is a random choice of which citizen is detained does not make the roadblock detention constitutional. There is no opt out provision in any of these roadblocks. You support the roadblocks because you believe in proactive policing to find a crime where no crime is suspected. No big deal. I disagree. I want cops to catch BGs the old fashioned way, after a crime is reported. If a cop can interdict a crime in progress.....BONUS!!! But you and I both know that is the rare case in deed.
Roadblocks are a affront to liberty and clearly unconstitutional. A detention is not a detention if the "detained" is not detained for too long, what is it up to now 20, 30, even 40 minutes now? Depending on the circumstances and what the cop has or has not, the inconvenience factor is based on a cop and a judges definition of what is reasonable, not the wronged citizen's definition of what is reasonable.
A cop who claims to support liberty and the constitution should be fighting tooth and nail to have roadblocks terminated. Or, at a minimum, volunteer for some other duty so as to have a modicum of "plausible deniability." "Hey, I ain't doing it, don't rag on me!!"
