Underground Railroads Used to Mean More Freedom

I promise this is my last subway rant for the summer (maybe). I just can't help it with NY now randomly searching bags, the LA Times revealing that the Sheriff's plan a crackdown on pesky intruders in the LA Tunnel system, and some "expert" on Fox News c laiming a good solution would be to force riders with bags larger than a briefcase to ride in the last two cars of a subway, or sit at the back of the bus.

Noticeably absent from Fox and other media outlets are those who think that maybe, just maybe, forcing a group of people to sit in the back of a bus might set off certain civil liberty alarms. I know those of us who carry a backpack on the subway are personae non grata (especially if you have a healthy olive tan), but are these PERCEIVED risks so great that we need to build internment camps while we're at it?

Maybe we can just have the Red Coats run our Homeland Security apparatus...they don't seem to have problems with shooting first and asking second. I bet no one would carry a backpack into a subway on the pain of execution.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness [but only if your backpack can fit this container. Thank you for showing courtesy to your non-terrorist riders].