Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
Better to refer to the thread that has six videos (might be more
but I've only found six) of the incident, with views from multiple cameras in the car and also a link to his photo gallery:
It was not staged. Robert Trudell does this as a hobby and public service and has posted countless "checkpoint refusal" videos in YouTube. Many of his videos are mundane (10 minutes of road noise & open highway with a perfunctory wave through the checkpoint), and some
like this one are hilarious.
They reportedly were seeking a search warrant to examine the hard drives & flash memories in his devices, so my best guess is that Border Patrol's low lifes fabricated this event for intelligence gathering purposes.
We should be free to travel in the United States without these intrusions. We quit flying 2.5 years ago after my wife was sexually assaulted at a TSA checkpoint when a screener ran her hand up under my wife bra. We canceled a planned road trip to El Paso last fall because I didn't want to deal with these Gestapo-style checkpoints inside the U.S.
If we were younger, we'd probably emigrate. As it is, we now confine our travels to places where we are not harassed by the worst that American government now offers.
This is not the United States that we grew up in 40-60 years ago. Our government has now adopted some of the worst elements of a couple of our World War II & Cold War enemies.