{"id":21562,"date":"2010-12-17T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21562"},"modified":"2010-12-17T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T14:16:06","slug":"dc-metro-to-begin-random-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21562","title":{"rendered":"DC Metro to begin random searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DC Metro railway system is planning on beginning random bag searches on passengers according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/local\/dc\/2010\/12\/metro-start-random-bag-searches\">Washington Examiner<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Metro Police Chief Michael Taborn said the coordinated effort with the Transportation Security Administration was not in response to a specific threat but was part of a continuing effort to keep the system safe from explosives. Boston, New York and New Jersey transit officials do similar searches, according to the agency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ya know I&#8217;d support Metro on this, if they&#8217;d shown the slightest interest in security of the transportation system in the last nine years. The only place I saw transportation cops was when they were driving around town in their SUVs. I can count on one hand the times I saw cops on the platforms or on the trains even though I rode the trains almost every day until last year. That includes on 9-11 when a half million people were trying to get out of town that fateful day.<\/p>\n<p>Up to this point, the only thing that Metro did after 9-11 was remove the trash bins and the newspaper vending machines on the platforms. Now they want to give the illusion of security by harassing passengers. If they were truly interested in security, they&#8217;d sell off their SUVs and make their patrol officers patrol the actual places they want to secure.<\/p>\n<p>I think the American traveling public is fed up with the theater and harassment that has become the hallmark of American security. How about actually making us secure for a change. It&#8217;s only their job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DC Metro railway system is planning on beginning random bag searches on passengers according to &hellip; <a title=\"DC Metro to begin random searches\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21562\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DC Metro to begin random searches<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}