Search This!!!
The Globe got it wrong today.
In their editorial, “Careful Searches on the T” they endorse the MBTA’s new policy of randomly searching passengers for explosives. While the paper may think that this “makes practical sense,” I most certainly do not.
If I have done nothing wrong, if I am not acting suspiciously, then the government should not be able to require me to submit to a search in order to use public transportation. Its that simple.
If you want to strip-search every single person who enters an airport, fine. If you want to install metal detectors at every train station and forbid all dangerous materials as a requirement for entering the system, I would not have a problem with that, either. But to have agents of the government singling out people at “random” for searches… That’s just unacceptable to me.
You wanna search my bag? Get yourself a warrant. Or have some damn good probable cause.
I may end up walking to work a lot from now on because I’m going to be wearing a bright red button every day that reads: “I DO NOT CONSENT TO A SEARCH.” I will document every time that I am stopped here and will be sure to note the name and badge number of any officer who asks me to leave the system for refusing a search.
Stay tuned… and don’t submit!
In their editorial, “Careful Searches on the T” they endorse the MBTA’s new policy of randomly searching passengers for explosives. While the paper may think that this “makes practical sense,” I most certainly do not.
If I have done nothing wrong, if I am not acting suspiciously, then the government should not be able to require me to submit to a search in order to use public transportation. Its that simple.
If you want to strip-search every single person who enters an airport, fine. If you want to install metal detectors at every train station and forbid all dangerous materials as a requirement for entering the system, I would not have a problem with that, either. But to have agents of the government singling out people at “random” for searches… That’s just unacceptable to me.
You wanna search my bag? Get yourself a warrant. Or have some damn good probable cause.
I may end up walking to work a lot from now on because I’m going to be wearing a bright red button every day that reads: “I DO NOT CONSENT TO A SEARCH.” I will document every time that I am stopped here and will be sure to note the name and badge number of any officer who asks me to leave the system for refusing a search.
Stay tuned… and don’t submit!
posted by Unknown at 8:03 AM
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