[dc-critmass-list] Metro to start random bag searches

[bob x]

This is in complete and utter violation of the 4th amendment (not that I personally believe in the constitution and the bill of rights as something that actually guarantees freedom and liberty) anywho it was forwarded to me here it is:
> Date: Monday, October 27, 2008, 3:07 PM
> Metro will begin carrying out bag searches of every 17th
> person who enters a
> given station (or bus) where a checkpoint exists. According
> to the post
> article, searches will not be announced in advance and will
> take place
> whenever circumstances call for it (i.e., elevated threat
> level, major
> protest, major event, when they feel like it) but riders
> have the option to
> opt out of the system and leave the station. No idea how
> truthful the
> opt-out clause is but I plan on testing that.
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102700767.html?hpid=topnews