Highway Checkpoint Asks Drivers For Blood, Saliva

[Nomad559]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57733

Travelers outraged by private research group's request

Motorists in Colorado are expressing outrage over a weekend stunt in Gilpin County, about an hour's drive west of Denver, where highway checkpoints were set up so a private organization could ask for samples of blood and saliva.

"I don't think they're authorized to do what they're doing, and I view it as a gross violation of law-enforcement protocol," Roberto Sequeira, 51, told reporters for the Denver Post.

He said he and his wife were "detained" for about 15 minutes even after they protested they wanted to get home because of a sleepy child in their car.

Sheriff's officials were apologizing after they helped set up and run five separate checkpoints over the weekend.

They said workers for the Institute for Research and Evaluation were overly persistent in their demands of innocent travelers.

[orleans]

1. BLOOD? THEY WANT BLOOD? wtf?

[silverojo]

7. DNA samples, anyone?

:scared:

[grasswire]

2. Institute for Research and Evaluation?????????

What the hell is that??!! I hope the right-wingers get on this pronto.

Danger, danger, danger!!

[daninthemoon]

3. OK, so is this company part of Blackwater or haliburton?

[Systematic Chaos]

4. I haven't heard much of anything positive about World Net Daily on DU.

I have a hard time believing this is actually true. But, if it is, I have to wonder if it wasn't just a field test to see how complacent people would be. I know I'd have raised holy hell if they'd pulled that shit on me.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. Denver Post original source link

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_6922089

I can't believe it either, but it's true.

[lligrd]

6. This Is Sick

And we are paying for this?

[JTFrog]

8. Are they

Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation? Don't see how this couldn't be them.

website:

http://www.pire.org/CommunityTrials/index.htm

one of their goals:

Risk of Drinking and Driving

Increases actual and perceived risk of arrest for driving after drinking through increased law enforcement and sobriety checkpoints

Driving Impairment (services they provide):

http://www.pire.org/topiclist2.asp?cms=63

evaluation of interlocks and technologies for control and prediction of impaired driving, evaluation of sobriety checkpoints, development of alcohol biomarker profiles of DUI offenders, conducting national roadside surveys of impairment, social and health cost analyses of impaired driving

HOW IS THAT LEGAL? Biomarker profiles collected at checkpoints??????

[reprobate]

14. No. religous based. Institute for Research and Evaluation. Salt Lake City.

www.smartmarriage.com/cmp.weed.pdf

They're running a survery about religious based marraiges.




Leader is Paul James Birch.

www.latterdayfamilies.com.

Since when is a religious organization allowed to stop motorists and collect DNA samples?

Someone at state government has some serious questions to answer.

[JTFrog]

15. Nah.

I saw a story in the Denver paper, it said Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.

It's what they do.

Sgt. Bob Enney said deputies assisted the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in stopping motorists at five sites along Colorado 119 for surveys on any drug and alcohol use. Surveyors then asked the motorists to voluntarily submit to tests of their breath, blood and saliva. At least 200 drivers were tested, Enney said. About five motorists later complained, he said.

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He said they had to deal with two Pacific Institute researchers. After Sequeira's repeated refusals, the officials offered his wife, who was driving, $100 in an attempt to get the couple to participate in a DUI breath test.

link is in a post above.

[reprobate]

17. Appreciate the correction.

[unhappycamper]

9. My standard answer to this horsecrap:

Fuck you!

[Forrest Greene]

10. "Check My Shorts" - NT

[Skittles]

11. I would have requested a lawyer

:o

[sarcasmo]

12. Let's get you in the data bank before you head home.

I would have gotten arrested, or killed if someone tried to pull this crap on my Paranoid A$$.

[provis99]

13. I don't know about blood or saliva, but I'd be happy to piss for them

They could collect it by wringing out their shirts.:evilgrin:

[plantwomyn]

16. Has anyone asked who ordered the Sheriffs.

Under who's authority were they acting. Don't they have to have a reason to stop you in the first place? If the Sheriff was acting as an "agent" of the Institute, than I'd like to find out if they were compensating the county for the cost. Has anyone forwarded this to the Colorado forum?

[NotGivingUp]

18. The more people go along with this crap, the more they will do it. n/t

[Stuckinthebush]

19. How in the hell did this get past IRB?

I'm amazed that any IRB would give the green light on such research.