Spend $16.99 so you can wear this to your grave
Posted on 07/22/2005 11:06:07 AM PDT by BigFinn
Reacting to the NYPD's announcement Thursday afternoon that police would randomly—but routinely—search the bags of commuters, one concerned New Yorker quickly created a way for civil libertarians to make their views black-and-white. In a few outraged moments, local immigrant rights activist Tony Lu designed t-shirts bearing the text, "i do not consent to being searched." The minimalist protest-wear can be purchased here, in various styles and sizes. (Lu will not get a cut. The shirts' manufacture, sale, and shipment, will be handled by the online retailer. Lu encourages budget-conscious New Yorkers to make their own and wear them everywhere.)
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly had announced the legally obvious—that New Yorkers are free to decline a search and "turn around and leave." But Lu, who is a lawyer at Urban Justice Center, warned that even well-intentioned cops could interpret people's natural nervousness or anger as "reasonable suspicion." The possibility of unjustified interrogation and even arrest is real, Lu said.
Although police promised they would not engage in racial profiling, Lu said that, as with all street-level policing, people of color and poor immigrants would be particularly vulnerable, especially if encounters lead to arrests.
Really, inviting a confrontation is never
very smart. Well, I'm all for the T-Shirts and these
searches are missing the point.
These men below invited confrontation and would deport Islam
in a New York City Minute and then the problem is solved.
Cy's about to become a respectable married woman; give her a chance to have some fun while she can.
Yep, walk right on down one block to the next subway station where you probably won't be randomly selected. Great deterrent.
LOL!!! You crazy guys :o)
I would say that the search was being conducted with the utmost enthusiasm.
But AIRPORTS are public.
And you get searched in the public airport, not on the private airplane.
How is wearing a t-shirt like that and defying the police a good thing?
Some chicks love a rebel. A t-shirt like that might help you pick up chicks...
That would solve it nicely.
Common sense arrives to the forum.
As a friend of mine says, or perhaps it's just me in my non-on-line alter-ego:
One swift kick in the ass is worth more than one thousand gentle wipes of the ass.
Professional police forces didn't crop up until around the mid-Nineteenth century.
Before that, it was like the joke about the town too small to have a regular town drunk-- so we all took turns.
What do you expect from a free weekly newspaper that has the most outrageous classified section in the world?
And that is the excuse put forth to shanghai our liberties.
We are not the problem. They are.
INTERN and DEPORT !!!
I don't. Unless I am preparing to board a private plane.
I go to the airport all the time without going through security. They even have a decent resturant there. I don't get searched unless I have a boarding pass and am proceeding to a gate. The gates are private property, leased by the individual airlines.
Do I dare ask what implement was being used to conduct the search?
Try again.
Not an excuse, FRiend. A fact.
Actually, the funniest part of the story was the old chinese guy sitting at the far end of the car. He didn't show anything. Just sat there passively with his ag of groceries. When I got off the car at the next stop and moved to the car in front, one of the guys in that car said, "You were the the looove shack."
Took the subway twice. No bag stop.
I did notice people looking around and checking out each other more closely than usual.
Im gonna get a t-shirt for the Subway that says
"I consent to shooting terrorists dead on sight"
Every time I have flown, I have been searched at the entrance to the airport gates (the area where only those with boarding passes can enter), not upon entering the airport itself. Maybe you act suspicious. *shrug*
Try again.
Every time I have flown, I have been searched at the entrance to the airport gates (the area where only those with boarding passes can enter), not upon entering the airport itself. Maybe you act suspicious. *shrug*
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