I'm just a young girl minding my own business. The new rules of random stop and search in subways and buses...is this necessary?
The subway has thousands of entrances that terrorists can get thru with no detection. Does Bush think manning only the busy entrances is going to stop a terrorist?
Soon the govt will have the right to stop me anytime anywhere to seach my bag for NO APPARENT REASON. I was just WALKING for godsake!
MEANWHILE, MEXICAN AND CANADIAN BORDERS ARE WIDE OPEN!! WHO'S MANNING THE BORDERS?
2007-03-06 07:31:01 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Right on!
2007-03-06 07:35:51 · answer #1 · answered by cogs 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe Bush thinks its a good idea because;
Security Warning Issued to Mass Transit By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer May 3, 2006
Two incidents last November of what the notice described as a foreign man who was arrested in an unnamed European city after videotaping the interior and exterior of several subway cars and stations, including trash cans and stairwells.Three other people were later
arrested for similar activity, the notice said.The incidents "prove indications of continued terrorist interest in mass transit
systems as targets, and potentially useful insights of the terrorists' surveillance techniques.
Report: Al Qaeda planned N.Y. subway attack
Sunday, June 18, 2006; CNN
FBI Busts 'Real Deal' NYC Terror Plot Aimed At Underground Trains
Friday , July 07, 2006
FBI agents monitoring Internet chat rooms smashed a possible Al
Qaeda-linked terrorist plot to attack New York City's underground transportation
system, law enforcement officials said Friday.
Prosecutors Play Recordings of 2004 New York City Subway Plot
Shahawar Matin
SIRAJ and James EL SHAFAY were arrested on August 27, 2004, on the eve of the
Republican National Convention, and charged with conspiring to detonate a bomb
in the 34th Street/Herald Square subway hub in midtown Manhattan in New York City. Other targets, including the Brooklyn,Verrazano and Kosciuszko bridges, 59th St. and Lexington Ave.
subway station and one of the 42nd Street stations.SIRAJ can be overheard chuckling on the tapes "Brooklyn Bridge is falling
down, falling down."
I agree with you about the borders, but its NOT just the Republicans.......
2007-03-06 16:02:59 · answer #2 · answered by bereal1 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the cops might thought you were pretty. that happened to a friend of mind she was making out in the car with her boyfriend and the cops got them out and grabbed on her trying to "find a weapon" she was only in her underwear. they can't search you or something of yours without a warrant unless your in a airport. no point trying to stop them they'll just haul you off to jail for resistance or some bull like that. i'm sorry that happened to you.
2007-03-06 15:39:37 · answer #3 · answered by Chrysanthi W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you enter a mass transit vehicle or station, you are not driving your own car.. you are in a pay-per-use vehicle in which you forfeit certain rights including the right to privacy. If you don't like it, take a taxi.
The next answer is superb.. kudos to the Bush Administration
2007-03-06 15:53:48 · answer #4 · answered by tpowers55 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They searched your bag because you are a terrorist...oh wait no you're not. They searched your bag because civil liberties and personal rights and freedoms don't mean anything to the Bush administration and they would rather waste time and money searching your bag rather than reevaluating our foreign policy which is why there are terrorists in the first place. Oh no i can't type anymore... men in black suits are coming to take me to Guantanamo Bay!
2007-03-06 15:37:55 · answer #5 · answered by BeachBABE 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
They can search you at will and this is because Bush is taking away our rights. That's what we get for voting in such an idiot for another term. And the cops probably stopped you to search you because you're a pretty girl. Vote Democrat.
2007-03-06 15:35:44 · answer #6 · answered by true blue 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
They had to search you because they are not allowed to search the bags of young men of Arab descent.
2007-03-06 15:40:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
People believe Big Brother can do no wrong. To heck with Big Brother.
2007-03-06 15:39:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cops are corrupt. You have my sympathies. Swell cover. Put the wolf to guard the sheep.
2007-03-06 15:35:30 · answer #9 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Have you looked in the mirror at yourself lately!!?You're lucky they just searched you!!
2007-03-06 15:44:49 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋