Random searches in NY subway
 

And then the privacy advocates scream and cry foul.

In my view, the privacy advocates against stop and search should wear a badge showing what they support, so we CAN STOP AND SEARCH them FIRST :)

We search people on planes (twice if you fly to Atlanta from the UK) so why not trains. Trains can carry more people than a plane. It's probably now because we protect planes that trains are seen as an easy target.

It makes me sick when these do-gooders complain about civil liberties. I want my civil liberties protected from bombers. If I get searched, I don't care - good for the police. I even think we should allow profiling but the reailty is, if we did, a bomber would dress up as an old-lady so it's irrelevant anyway.

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These are the same privacy advocates who don't like extended passnger screening at airports. I say: "Cry me an 'effin river".

I get picked for extended screening every time, I really don't care.

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BTW, people can refuse to have their bags searched, so doing this would be a bit pointless anyway.

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Think I had heard that IF they refurse to have their bag searched then they will not be allowed to board that train.

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So they'll go onto the next station and blow that one up instead, or perhaps they'll just blow up a cinema or something.

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In the world we live in today searches are a necessary evil - if you don't have anything to hide why should you care? I would sure like to be searched if it saved lives

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I've never had a problem with being searched.......the only time I was a tiny bit put out was by a very stupid slow person at Kennedy Space centre.....so many out of work.....and they employ the only dumb one....... :rolleyes:

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She's hit the nail on the head -- this is the very problem over here! The theory is fine; the execution of it is always stupid, pointless and expensive.