So Jeff: When you get pulled over at a checkpoint to see if you're seatbelted - you feel as if you're being "harassed?"
In the truest sense of the definition......YES....I feel I'm being harrassed. BUT..... possessing a driver's license in the state of NC is a PRIVELEDGE and not a "right". When they use this "tactic" to illegally gain entry to my vehicle for an otherwise illegal search and/or seizure.....then YES......I'm (not figuratively,but hypothetically, ME) being harrassed. This tactic wasn't designed to make sure we were all wearing our seatbelts. It was brought about to LEGALIZE what has always been an ILLEGAL search (probable cause goes out the window).
So yeah....I call it harrassment.