We’re just 15 days into 2021, and the selection of really poor, anti‐liberty policy and legislative proposals are multiplying like mold spores.
To that conclude, I would direct you to the request by the Worldwide Affiliation of Sheet Steel, Air, Rail and Transportation Employees that the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) build a “No Ride” listing for passenger rail akin to TSA’s infamous “No Fly” checklist for the airline field. From the unions’ press release:
Suspected insurrectionists carry on to threaten further more violence as the changeover to President‐elect Joe Biden’s administration techniques up coming 7 days. Some of these have been relegated to the No Fly Listing overseen by FAA, protecting against them from traveling by air, but no these types of restriction exists for the nationwide passenger rail community. Clever-TD and BLET urge that a “no‐ride” checklist that mirrors FAA’s listing be enacted quickly.
By all means, lets make passenger rail journey just as hell‐like as airline vacation: crazy necessities for taking away sneakers, non‐science centered boundaries on liquid carry‐on items, a lot more expensive, ineffectual screening technological innovation, and of program, even for a longer period delays in currently being able to board your coach and get to your vacation spot. Apparently, union reps have forgotten just how ineffectual and liberty‐damaging TSA’s VIPR groups were being just before Trump—in one of his handful of practical functions as President—tried to get rid of the VIPR program.
This union proposal naturally begs additional issues: exactly where will it conclude? Will the union representing Washington Metropolitan Transportation Authority (WMATA) inquire for a “No Ride” checklist for DC’s Metrorail and Metrobus expert services? Immediately after all, since you don’t know who may well morph from a protestor to an insurrectionists, far better to to simply just choose any names of the January 6, 2021 insurrectionists (alleged or actual) on the TSA “No Fly” list and get them banned from driving Amtrak, DC Metro, or any other transit technique, proper?
That our nation’s Capitol setting up was overrun by at minimum hundreds searching for to overturn a fair, absolutely free, and legitimate election is clear. The Office of Justice has now developed a running, online listing of individuals hence far charged with federal crimes in relationship with the insurrectionist party. What we never have to have is but yet another because of process‐free, innuendo pushed, governing administration operate transportation stability “list” that presents us a further debacle like TSA’s Peaceful Skies method, and that further more undermines the means of citizens not desired for a crime to go about their vacation unmolested.