Will San Francisco Be Outraged? (On Random Searches)

by David Anderson (Writing about New York City)

Tue, Jul 26, 2005 12:26PM

David Anderson notes that there is little sense of outrage against random searches being conducted in the New York City Subway.

Will San Francisco be as meek?

"Perhaps the greatest outrage about the new New York City government's policy of random bag searches in the subway is the lack of outrage about it. Where are the stories about people turning around and not being searched, interviews with opponents of the policy, or even an in depth discussion of the legalities of it?

The way it has been sold to the public by almost the entire media in New York is "is it popular", as if general acceptance is justification for a policy which goes further legally than any other in recent times. Anecdotally, the media would have us believe it is a very popular move, something that knowing New Yorkers, and being one, I find hard to believe."

Read the rest of his essay in Counterpunch:

For more information: http://www.counterpunch.org/anderson072620...

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§Patriot Games and Draconian Rule. The Bush Cabal to Sieze Power

by Patriot Games and Draconian Shadow Govt.

Tue, Jul 26, 2005 6:27PM

So who benefits from the London Bombings? Muslims who will victimized by the Bush Cabal's Draconian Rule or the Bush Cabal, who will get the Expanded Police Power over much of the World? The Bush Iran-Contra Cabal Benefits that's who! These Bombings as well as the ones in Beruit, New York, Spain, Iraq Mosques, and Pakistan Mosques are Bushite Patriot Games.

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