New Yorkers Want to be safe, but.>>>>>>

some of them don't want to have random searches of people going into the subway.

in a few outraged moments, local immigrant rights activist Tony Lu designed t-shirts bearing the text, "i do not consent to being searched."

Now, its easy to say from the backwater confines of Jackson, Mississippi but...............

1. it seems a small price to pay for bringing some sense of greater security to the subway system

2. if you don't have any thing embarassing or something to hide, why would it cause great concern.

3. if a police officer is rude, he can be reported and the media can cover abuses

4. the only option is to do nothing or inconvenience everyone or develop and fund some elaborate and enormously expensive system

5. at least its not like Arnold's movie "Total Recall" where people go through a machine that would ultrasound or xray their entire body (ha).

But, like I said its easy to arm chair quarterback, but it seems to me that new Yorkers would rather be embarassed or inconvenienced a bit than have their rail system blow up. I think that is the way I would feel.