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1 posted on 11/15/2002 10:25:35 AM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl
Papers Citizen!

You are free to consume in government approved shopping areas or go home!

Freedom is slavery!
Ignorance is truth!
Long live the Republic!

2 posted on 11/15/2002 10:30:03 AM PST by DAnconia55
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So how do we balance this?
It seems fundamental that this guy was harassed for no reason at all.

And that's a violation of his liberty.

Yet if Osama bin Laden's little brother decides to take out a passenger train with a bunch of people on it, or a nuke-carrying military train, the possibility exists that it could have been prevented by tactics such as this.

It makes me sick to watch my country die.

3 posted on 11/15/2002 10:32:22 AM PST by Izzy Dunne
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Finally, he had to sign a form agreeing never to return to the location known as Tower 55.

HAD to? That signature means nothing. The JBT's cannot bar you from a public or private place just because they don't like it. I would have a judge slap an injunction on them in a heartbeat for harassment.

5 posted on 11/15/2002 10:45:46 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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Excerpts ONLY from the Post.
6 posted on 11/15/2002 10:47:17 AM PST by JennysCool
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As a model railroading hobbyist (N, HO and G), I do, on occasion, stop to get some shots of various trains and I used to take the kids, when they were younger, up to the local station to see the local model railroad club's layout and hopefully catch a train or two pass by.

With all that being said, and although it sounds like a cliche that has become too old, too quickly, ....we live in a different world now. And like the passing of the steam era, we'll just have to get used to it.

7 posted on 11/15/2002 10:47:24 AM PST by Hatteras
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Another excerpt from the the article:

Jim Satterwhite of Greenville, Tex., president of Coastline Rail Services, was out photographing trains last weekend when his wife had a visit from police. It seems a Kansas City Southern Railway locomotive crew had reported his tag number. Shortly after the police visit, his wife received a call from a railroad official. Satterwhite said in an interview that as a 20-year Air Force veteran who now works in the railroad industry, he understands the need for safety and security. But "when do we become prisoners in our own homes?" he asked.

Indeed! And his name along with Whitenight's will be entered in the all encompassing Pentagon's DARPA database that has been discussed in the past few days. Pretty soon it will be suspicious to sit on our front porch and watch passers by. We are losing our freedoms in the name of "security", and very few seem to give a damn.

13 posted on 11/15/2002 5:41:09 PM PST by CedarDave
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So the LEOs have driven off probably the best,free guard the trains could have.
15 posted on 11/15/2002 6:30:43 PM PST by Free Trapper
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