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Apparently, Los Angeles County Sheriff's have been doing random bag checks for Metro since March, according to Damien Newton at StreetsblogLA. Metro staff emphasized to him that the searches are legal, after he spoke to them when a reader witnessed it happening to commuters entering the Gold Line platform at Union Station. Notes Newton: "When Metrolink announced it was going to begin randomly searching passengers' belongings last summer, there was a firestorm of protest. After the horrific crash last September, the agency came under fire for spending money Keeping Us Safe from Terrorists instead of improving rail safety."
Random Bag Checks by Sheriff's on Metro? Yes.
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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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I have witnessed these "random searches", they tend to search people who fit a profile. Arabic, Middle Eastern, Pakistan/Indian, dark-skinned Hispanic.
If you are a blonde-haired, light skinned terrorist, you will probably not get searched.
true story. racial profiling blows. :(
Yeah racial profiling sucks, but sadly right now if something gets blown up odds are people who fit a certain profile (Arab) are behind it.
Most major city subway systems in the world do this.
The Metro staff is mistaken. Here is the relevant law:
How quaint. The Constitution is so 20th Century.
Don't throw the Constitution in their face! That's just a GD piece of paper Ken!!
Well boys and girls, that means be sure and carry your Doctor's recommendation letter if you plan carry any weed when you ride the rails. (I'm sure the Sheriff's dept. isn't going to mind getting a few residual busts for something other than a bomb if it just happens to come up)
But...but...but you're using a service. The service is not a right, it's a privilege! Therefore we have the right to search you. Don't like it, don't use the metro!
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Pretty soon they're going to declare walking down the street is a privilege and if you want to do it you'll have to subject yourself to a search. This is a joke. They might as well go over to the Rotunda and tear up that piece of paper. No one seems to care what it says anymore. It's been twisted and "interpreted" to various agendas more than the Bible at this point.
Here's a possible thought.
Entertain the theoretical notion of organized comment/publicity rousing to their flagrant overrreach.
They're *banking* on real-world apathy (apart from blogSteam).
L.A. orgs routinely flaunt laws and rights (I believe this town has a world record number of federal consent decrees), the only way they get away with it is if people fail to speak up in ways that the system recognizes.
This would perhaps make sense if Los Angeles had an extensive subway system. I can't believe people continue to bend over for these specious tramplings of civil rights.
I think random accounting record searches of all the ponzi schemes in town would be a much more just and efficient use of resources.
The terrorists have won another round.
Well I guess the Bush doctrine of tearing up the Constitution and trampling our civil rights continues on.
My brother was driving on I80 just outside Reno last week when a group of highway patrol officers starting directing random cars over to the shoulder.
Once there, the officers proceeded to allow their drug-sniffing dogs to surround each car before asking the owner "may we search your vehicle". Had the dogs alerted to their car, they wouldn't have required their permission to search.
Lucky for my brother, he wasn't carrying his personal "medicinal" stash at the time.
Who knew Harry Reid would allow such fascist, Bush doctrine-like tactics to exist in his state.