DHS @ Porter & Davis this morning

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

MBTA police and DHS are performing security theater this morning in both Davis and Porter. At Porter, they totally randomly selected the one black guy from a large commuter crowd. Yay for America!

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[hrafn.livejournal.com]

They seem to be performing it in front of both entrances to Davis now, not just the one I don't use.

I was looking for like a hat or an open instrument case or something but I don't think they were collecting money for their performance. And they were a lot bigger and more armed than I was so I figured if they misinterpreted coinage tossed their way things could go very badly.

I don't like this kind of theatre very much.

[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

I don't think they were collecting money for their performance.

On April 15th you can say that? Have you no sense of irony, sir?

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

That's "Madam" to you, and my sense of irony hadn't woken up and realized what the date was. LOL!

[rax.livejournal.com]

Might it be related to the Tea Party protests planned today?

(not that it seems terribly productive anyway, just wondering)

[whaler.livejournal.com]

there are more today? Oh god

[cos]

Those were yesterday, unless they're doing two days in a row and failed to mention it :)

[rax.livejournal.com]

Asking why a tax day protest would be on April 14th and not April 15th would be much too sensible, wouldn't it. :)

[cos]

In this case it has a sensible answer: Sarah Palin was in town on the 14th, so they had a rally for her visit.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Their final stop/rally is today, in D.C.

[whaler.livejournal.com]

she's doing the BIG tax day protest in DC, we were just the warmup

EDIT oops didn't refresh >.

The idea of spending OUR tax money

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

for Palin's visit, really infuriates me. She is a concentrate of all that is screwed up with America.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

I love totally random racial profiling.

[skexy.livejournal.com]

He probably just looked like he was running late....

[koloratur.livejournal.com]

Maybe they were planning on doing Othello after the morning rush?

[smammy]

Just remember: "AM I FREE TO GO, OFFICER?" Porter's not that far away.

[veek.livejournal.com]

The OP sez, both Davis and Porter. The walking-to-Porter bit has been my mental fallback (which hasn't come in handy because I'm a harmless-looking Caucasian woman), and it pisses me off a bit that they're angling to force people to undergo the searches by doing the two stations in tandem.

Though, of course, that makes it *less* of a theatre... but random searches always are.

[smammy]

Oh, duh, my brain no worky. I guess one could continue on to Harvard if Porter was a no-go, but really, what are the chances of being selected at both stations? I guess higher for some than for others.

I had to walk from Arlington to Boylston after declining a search last Fall. Take that, BPD!

[astrajane.livejournal.com]

You can always catch a bus to Sullivan or Lechmere! :) The 89 goes from the Davis T to Sullivan.

That's a very short walk...

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

I often walk from Kenmore Sq to Park Street.

Re: That's a very short walk...

[smammy]

Never said it wasn't. I bow to your obviously superior walking prowess.

(And *must* you always put the first sentence of your comment in the subject line? Smacks of willful eccentricity...)

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

My fallback has been either walking to Porter or busing to um, well, crap, Porter. But I guess taking a bus to Alewife or Harvard would work, too.

[ron_newman]

Read "DHs @ Porter & Davis" and wondered, what is David Ortiz doing around here?

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

What if we ask if we can search the officers? Of course, they're welcome to decline.

Did anyone take pics?

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

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[eveninparadise.livejournal.com]

If you see cops racially profiling people, why not take the time to report it (other than on LJ)?