Arguing that the “world is different” now, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday defended his decision to randomly search the bags of riders at 145 CTA train stations in a hunt for terrorists bearing explosives.No Bill of Rights for you!
The mayor noted that the searches will be bankrolled by a federal grant and that other cities have been doing the same for years.
At a time when fears of homegrown terrorists are growing and the Islamic State is gaining steam, the mayor said it only makes sense to put would-be terrorists on edge and tilt the scales in the CTA's favor.
“We received…a federal grant for searches that, with the abundance of caution and done appropriately are the right thing to do to both provide people the assurance of security as well as doing it with a sensitivity to their own privacy,” Emanuel said.
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Rahm defends CTA searches: 'The world is different' now
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
