Your Papers Please?
Miami is taking new steps to keep terrorists off guard...asking Americans to supply ID papers when conducting ordinary activities like entering a bank or hotel or riding a bus or train.
Both uniformed and plainclothes police will ride buses and trains, while others will conduct longer-term surveillance operations. "People are definitely going to notice it," Fernandez said. "We want that shock. We want that awe. But at the same time, we don't want people to feel their rights are being threatened. We need them to be our eyes and ears."
Is this what we've become? Who said the terrorists didn't win the terror war?
[Via Atrios.]
Update: At least in Denver, the authorities are moving slowly in deciding whether to prosecute a woman who refused to show identification while riding a bus to work:
"Passengers aren't required to carry passports or any other identification documents in order to ride to work on a public bus," [ACLU Director Mark Silverstein] said.
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