Amtrak Begins Random ID Checks on Trains

mick wrote:Official intrusions into peoples privacy has been going on in this country long before 9/11, and long before the Bush adminisration. Sobriety checks on highways, drug testing in the workplace, background checks for firearms, the IRS, etc, etc. We either accept all of it or none of it, not just the policies that we agree with politically.

Pointing out that we as a nation have lost our conscience awhile ago somehow doesn't comfort me. Nor does it inspire me to accept future intrusions gracefully.


PS - Frankly there are some jobs I couldn't have gotten thru without drugs.

Because I usually had on some railroad-related wear on, conductors would just wave me by on my railroad ID

Glad to see I'm not the only one...I always feel awkward doing it, but its nice to know that we're still considered "family".