To: oceanview
they had better start taking it more seriously - because telling citizens to "report suspicious people" and call an 800 number, is about 100 times dumber then having the police be watchful and picking out people to search.Something like 3.5 to 4 million passengers ride the NYC mass transit system every work day. Do you really thing that randomly searching (or even selectively searching based upon profiles) a couple thousand people a day is going to discourage a person from blowing up atrain or bus if that is their mission? Get real.
To: Labyrinthos
it can't hurt.
with that logic, we might as well do away with airport screening to. consider that you only need a handful of terrorists boarding planes, in relation to the total number of people who fly every day - so why bother screening at all. why bother checking passports then, or visas. the "odds" of finding someone is so low.
To: Labyrinthos
Something like 3.5 to 4 million passengers ride the NYC mass transit system every work day. Do you really thing that randomly searching (or even selectively searching based upon profiles) a couple thousand people a day is going to discourage a person from blowing up atrain or bus if that is their mission? Get real. Shhhhh. The sheeple are comfortable with the illusion of security.
48 posted on
07/22/2005 11:24:35 AM PDT by
gdani
(While terrorists are busy planning the *next* attacks we work to prevent their *previous* attacks)
To: Labyrinthos
Do you really thing that randomly searching (or even selectively searching based upon profiles) a couple thousand people a day is going to discourage a person from blowing up atrain or bus if that is their mission? Get real. Amen. This is especially stupid considering the fact that the cops won't be profiling or picking out suspiciously looking people and packages. They'll be doing just like at the airports--every 10th or 20th or nth person regardless of the absurdity. Useless placating.
201 posted on
07/22/2005 12:01:21 PM PDT by
Sandy
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