Uh, just take a second to think. It's not about the actual search. It's about the potential for a search that might discourage the the bad guys. Get it?
Yeah, because a savage who's made up his mind that he's going to commit suicide and take a couple or a few score of innocent people out with him is probably the kind of person who'd have second thoughts knowing he stood a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of having his back-pack inspected by a cop.
Sheesh.
These nuts are anxious to kill themselves for their cause. You think the threat of a random search might discourage them?
Yeah, I get it. Terrorists blow stuff up, citizens give up their privacy for illusionary safety, and America slips into an Orwellian paradise willingly. Your privacy now means nothing to the state. Move along before we are forced to question you, good citizen.
This is what I get -- there are about 1,000 different ways to inflict a terrorist attack on the U.S. or NYC that don't involve subways.
You are severely kidding yourself if you think searches at subway stations make us any safer.
Yeah, cuz terrorists are so easily discouraged. Anyway, what's to stop someone from exploding himself while he's waiting in line to be searched? Nothing.