NYT:Civil Liberties Union Prepares Lawsuit Challenging Random Searches.. .

[ovidsen]

August 4, 2005
Civil Liberties Union Prepares Lawsuit Challenging Random Searches of Bags on Subways
By SEWELL CHAN

The New York Civil Liberties Union plans to file a lawsuit today challenging the legality of the Police Department's new policy of randomly searching bags and packages in the subway system.

The lawsuit, to be filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, contends that the searches are "virtually certain neither to catch any person trying to carry explosives into the subway nor to deter such an effort." It also says that many riders have been selected in a "discriminatory and arbitrary" manner, creating the potential for racial profiling.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/nyregion/04search.html?pagewanted=print

You had to see this one coming...

[truthisfreedom]

1. the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. that doesn't mean sneaking

peeks in people's belongings. that means that every time bushco takes a freedom away, we have to be vigilant and take it back.

[wli]

2. not long before the ACLU is declared a terrorist organization

Making legal challenges to any "anti-terrorism" measures and attempting to legally defend oneself against accusations of terrorism acts of terrorism in and of themselves was one of the clauses in PATRIOT II, and will doubtless be passed eventually.