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To be valid, the sample population would have to be a random group of people.
Offering a nominal amount of money & getting info only from the people who say YES - is far from a random sample.
It's biased as all hell.
So I have to ask: What are they **really** looking to find out??
My guess: How passive is the populace??
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How many people actually understand the past 200-300 years and what actions were taken to insure our rights? How many 'men' out there have the guts that our forefathers had. As we progressed into this age, we regressed in our mental and physical independence.
Just my 2 cents as a newbie.
Wake up people!
Anyone who didn't want to participate didn't have to. Seems to me that's fair.
The more I think about this the madder I get.
We do occasionally run into late night "safety checks" around here. They are no more than law enforcement fishing expeditions where "hope" to find drunk drivers or other criminals. I've been told that orders come down from above that the officers on these details will remain on the task until they nab a certain number of offenders - then the press in the area are notified of how "successful" the thing was.
The real problem comes in when these bored officers begin to exceed the simple mandate they were given and turn what should be a 30 second stop (still not legal ion my mind) into a 30 minute event where they get people out of their cars, search all through, run everybodies ID's and heaven help you if you have a knife or gun - you could be there for hours.
I was the subject of one of these stops a couple years ago, I don't drink or use drugs, I am insured and all my "paper's" are up to date and a sixty YO guy in a wheelchair with his wife towing a 34' Travel Trailer, on their way home after a long trip can't be high on their list of possible "suspects", but there we were a hour. Most of that time was spent trying to make the officers involved understand why I would not summit to a "voluntary" search of my trailer "if you don't have anything to hide".
Following that event I tried to get some legal assistance group to help fight this stuff, but since I was not arrested, they all said I'd never be able to prove I was "damaged" by this foray into my freedoms.
Sad.
How would you get them off the road?
Please offer details of your plan.
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