Boston Transit System to Begin Searches (Just in time for Demo Con)

[Khephra]

BOSTON -- Transit police will begin randomly stopping riders on Boston's subways and commuter trains next month to search their bags and packages, a procedure transportation officials say was largely prompted by the March 11 train bombings in Spain.

The new policy is set to be in place for July's Democratic National Convention, MBTA Police Chief Joseph Carter told The Boston Globe for a story in Tuesday editions. It will include explosive-sniffing dogs and all 247 uniformed Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority police officers, he said.

"I have no trepidation about being first (in the nation with the policy)," Carter said. "I don't want to be the first to do an interview about having a serious incident that may have some terrorist indications to it. ... We want to do this to encourage people to feel safe on the MBTA, to utilize public transportation."

Carter said MBTA has not announced the new policy formally because officials still are working out the details on how to balance security and privacy concerns.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-boston-transit-searches,0,2359777.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[Turbineguy]

1. Was it Beria

who said "Everyone is guilty of something!"

[theoceansnerves]

2. randomly?!?!?!

speechless...

[Nay]

3. Gee, I thought this was unconstitutional -- oh, yeah, we don't HAVE

a constitution anymore. . .

[ronatchig]

4. Civil disobedience

is the only answer to this outrage, carry no id and act very suspicious. Completely clog this Nazi's jail system.

[dArKeR]

5. Random Searches On Boston Trains - CBS

Transit police will begin randomly stopping riders on Boston's subways and commuter trains next month to search their bags and packages, a procedure transportation officials say was largely prompted by the March 11 train bombings in Spain.

The new policy — the first in the United States — is set to be in place for July's Democratic National Convention in the city, transit Police Chief Joseph Carter told The Boston Globe newspaper for a story in Tuesday editions.

The program will include explosives-sniffing dogs and all 247 uniformed Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority police officers, he said.


"From Nazi Germany, to Stalinist Russia, to South Africa under apartheid, the phrase: 'Your papers, please' is alien to a free society."
John Reinstein,

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/08/terror/main621730.shtml