TSA Checkpoints Showing Up In Tenn, Michigan

Some say it's needed, others say it's an invasion of privacy and the TSA needs to focus elsewhere. Tennesee and Michigan have now set up randon checkpoints at various places across the states. A new program called VIPR (Visible Intermodal Prevention And Response) has been established at several truck and bus stops across those states; officials claim that now terrorism watches need to be extended beyond airports.  They say the threat of terrorism is well beyond airports.   Drivers are being recruited into a program called the First Observer Highway Security Program.  It's part of the "see something, say something" program you see advertised on television now these days.  Also, in Michigan, it's being used to interdict the flow of drugs into the state, but officials also say the new roadblocks being set up along I-69 and US-23 in Genesee County are working.   Motorists are warned heading on the highways into the county that drug sniffing dogs and other anti-drug (and some say anti-terror) detection devices are being used to randomly check motorists.  Opponents say the new Michigan program will not survive it's first court challenge;  they claim it amounts to Fourth Amendment search and seizure violations.