Why Boston

[prog]

Oh, the DNC, of course. Makes sense Explains motivation.

I wonder at the likelihood that after all the July chaos is done, the MBTA will retract this policy (i.e. let it collapse under all the anger & protest it will build up in that short time), though under a cloud of statements that they still retain the right to institute whatever future policies they may feel necessary to protect their vehicles, property and people.

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In related news, airports have been searching bags via X-ray for as long as I've been alive, and I haven't blinked twice at this. Should I feel upset about that, now? This is a very interesting question.

Comments

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

they can make a policy pie and scoop ice cream on top, but that doesn't mean they can make anyone eat it. once it seems like the DNC zaniness is over, i think MBTA security folks will loose the desire to stop random patrons and ask for ID. certainly random patrons will loose the desire to be stopped and asked for ID.

i predict boston will go the way of new york city. camo-clad, assualt rifle-toting, beret-sporting nat'l guardspeople who stand at key subway stations and look menacing while patiently giving directions to lost tourists and crazies.

incidently, when the RNC comes this direction in sept, i am fleeing north.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Come say hi when you do.

I was thinking today that I'll likely ask to work from home over the DNC, and then go to Maine and sponge Net access off my friends there for a few days. I don't think either work or friends would blame me.

airplace security

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, good point. One could say that's more understandalbe because even well-meaning but stupid people could endanger an aircraft by packing things which cuold explode and cause terrible damage. Though I don't know how carefully the bag screeners look for things like cans of spray paint, or all those other items they tell you not to pack.

Also, they screen _all_ bags, they don't just randomly pick people out for no reason other than the sake of doing it. (Which is not to say I want to run by pack through a scanner everyfuckingtime I use the train; that seems totally ludicrous.)

And, while I've often been annoyed at standing in line to pass my carryon through a scanner at airports, I've never felt violently opposed to it until they started instituting more invasive checks, post-9/11.

Wonder if the T-is-public vs. airport-is-not has anything to do with it.

Ok, enough rambling.