How To Resist Searches on Metro
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Being a tin foil hat-wearing type, I am delighted to see that my fellow cranks at Flex Your Rights have compiled their Citizen’s Guide to Refusing DC Metro Searches, complete with handy half-page PDF version for printing and handing out to your friends.
It’s a good read, though mostly review for those of us who have been screaming about this for, oh, 7 years now. It boils down to, be polite, be non-confrontational, and don’t do anything that might be perceived as a threat to the officers or others. You want to exercise your constitutional rights, not provide “probable cause.”
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7 Responses to “How To Resist Searches on Metro”
October 29th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Glad I’m not the only one sporting a tin foil hat.
p.s. Thanks for using the photo.
October 29th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I’ve gotta be honest, Josh. It was between yours and the one of the drag queen in the American flag bikini.
October 29th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
I love that they have a printable PDF. What’s the DC regulation on handing out flyers and things? I want to go stand outside a station and hand out printed copies.
October 29th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
We all face difficult decisions in our lives. That sounds like one of them.
On a side note, the FLDS cult queens were the funniest things evah.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I was actually looking at the court decision mentioned on the Metro website that “allows” them to do the searches.
I have to applaud Tiff for getting this “resist” post up quickly…
I saw a gaggle of Metro cops outside Farragut North yesterday before the Rush Hour start and was going to assume that they were going to do a test run.
However, my metro riding days may be numbered for a while (or due to crappy weather) as I’ve given up four wheels for two. I just hope some dumb FBI or Secret Service dope doesn’t mistake my motorcycle cases for bomb containers…
October 30th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
David – likely the FBI and SS folks won’t have any part of it. I bet they will farm this job out to the ass clowns who tell us not to take pictures at Union Station.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:19 am
Thanks, Tiffany. Check out the local TV protest coverage.
Here’s ABC
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1008/565559.html
Here’s NBC
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Critics_Protest_Metros_Plan_to_Search_Bags.html