Raging Police State in NYC -- Big guns & bag searches on ALL public transportation

[rambone]

NYC is accelerating the Police State big time. Now travelers could be subjected to bag searches, performed by men with rifles, if they enter buses, trains, subways, ferries, bridges, tunnels, and airports.

He said security at landmarks and other forms of transportation, like ferries, is being ramped up. MTA Chairman Jay Walder said riders would also see extra bag searches and heavy weapons teams on trains and buses.

Mayor: Osama Death Doesn't Change Threat | NBC New York

 

[E5RANGER375]

i have no desire to go to that **** hole. you know if the end of the world comes places like that will be the first to go. i dont wanna be there.

 

[parsimonious]

Looks fine to me, so long as they are checking old ladies and young
men in trench coats.

 

[indykid]

Even in death, Bin Laden has won.

 

[Garb]

Rudy Giuliani must be so proud...

 

[rambone]

Everything is okay sheeple... just open your bag up & don't make any sudden movements

 

[Regionnus Rattis]

We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

 

[IN_Sheepdog]

Sad, yes...

Even in death, Bin Laden has won.

Boy, if that isn't the truth!!! After watching the 90 yr old ladies with the walkers searched at the airport, and invasive, Backscatter X Rays of travellers, we have truly been changed. not directly by the terrorists, but by our own government!

Sigh... damn I miss the good ol days when I could show up at the airport 15 minutes before the flight and still make it on, WITH baggage...

Wonder why all these sheeple aren't freaking out and calling 911 about a MWAG...?

 

[IN_Sheepdog]

Playing the Devils advocate here, but I wonder when the first terrorist uses some of that Al quada money to go out and buy the helmet, vest and all the other MTA Police goodies, and pose as a protector of the Sheeple...?

Just saying...

 

[E5RANGER375]

soldiers on the street. NY is definitely a police state. and now we have their boy straub here in indy. i hope ballard gets defeated so straub goes home.

 

[rambone]

Playing the Devils advocate here, but I wonder when the first terrorist uses some of that Al quada money to go out and buy the helmet, vest and all the other MTA Police goodies, and pose as a protector of the Sheeple...?

Just saying...

They might as well put in a job application and get a job performing bag checks. Same results.

 

[Regionnus Rattis]

NYC has always been a cesspool, despite it being an "international" city and an "icon" of America.

There are far more beautiful icons in this nation than some city with streets and alleys that smell like urine, puke and stale beer. It is unfortunate that there are some people who live the way they do, who live there and are trapped for one reason or another, unable to move out of that city.

Most of the US population lives along the eastern seaboard...and it is there that I hope they stay. City dwellers will be the first to go. I'll take my chances and that of my family living where I do and out of a city such as NYC

 

[rambone]

NYC has always been a cesspool, despite it being an "international" city and an "icon" of America.

Its not just NYC. The Police State is growing everywhere. What starts in major cities creeps out to the heartland. There is absolutely nothing stopping it. Unconstitutional checkpoints are becoming a normal part of life. People embrace this terror-obsessed culture and they get the chains that they begged for.

Pictured: Police State America
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[Leadeye]

soldiers on the street. NY is definitely a police state. and now we have their boy straub here in indy. i hope ballard gets defeated so straub goes home.

Straub or his equivilant isn't going anywhere. He was brought in by big law firms who really make policy in Indy and will stay regardless of election results.

 

[yepthatsme]

It is a sad state of affairs to have gotten to this point, to have our own country turn into a police state. Just to think of all of the veterans that have fought and died for our freedom just to have it taken away from us without a fight. This will eventually be our undoing. Eventually, the American people will become as fearful of our government as they are fearful of terrorism. At that moment, many will just then realize what has transpired, what we have allowed to happen.

We, as a people, do not realize that when we build walls for our own protection, we are also building a prison for ourselves. I just hope that we will wake up and open our eyes before it is too late.

 

[MinuteMan47]

Straub has already said that there will be increased security for the 500 this year.

Police will increase Indianapolis 500 security | The Indianapolis Star | indystar.com


Random checkpoints, license plate readers, radiation detection...


Heightened security for terrorists.

 

[littletommy]

Obama, and Bin Laden for that matter, have succeeded, America is now a third world country. Time to buy some fly repellant and start working on our mud huts.

 

[lashicoN]

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”


- Sam Adams

 

[IN_Sheepdog]

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”


- Sam Adams

+1 thats a new one... Nice! I think that needs to be pasted to my FB Status!

 

[NYFelon]

First: NYC actually is a grand place. For those of you have have never been here, or not so in the last decade, the NYC of the late 60s and 1970s that we all know from films like "Taxi Driver" or "Fort Apache" simply doesn't exist anymore. Excluding the aberration brought on by foreign combatants in 2001, it is actually the safest city of over 1,000,000 people in the United States. [Data collated in 2008, if it has since changed, I am unaware]. The sex shop, prostitute laden 42st street out-of-staters think they know simply doesn't exist anymore. The Burnt out war zone of the South Bronx has since been completely demolished and redeveloped.

The South Bronx everyone "knows"

The South Bronx as it exists today

Yes, of course there are still areas that suck, but it's by no means a crap-hole as someone suggested.

Now, that having been established, NY's long since been a police state. It only makes the news more often now because of the "terror alert system" roving swat teams with MP5s have been on the streets of NYC since at least as early as the 90s, when I was a teenager. For all intents and purposes, this is The People's Democratic Republic of New York. It's owned and operated by corrupt politicians who are in turn owned and operated by corrupt labor unions. In the course of my work I deal with a lot of general contractors, and construction professionals. Believe me when I tell you nothing gets done here without the copious application of palm grease.

So if you mean it's a cesspit in that way, I'll agree with you 100%. But if you mean it in the conventional wisdom way of oh you're gonna get mugged raped, shot, stabbed, et al, not so much. You're more likely to Have any of those things happen to you in KC,MO or Gary, IN than you are in NYC.

But it's still a socialist hellhole, oh which I can't wait to get the eff out of.

* City Safety Data: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/03/americas_safest_cities_96815.html