Yet another reason to stay home

[ltmurnau]

BC Ferries to screen passengers

This is bloody ridiculous. What are they going to screen passengers for? Will I have to leave my nail clippers at home when I want to visit my dad on Pender Island?

Even in the crazy days after 9/11, when the commuter ferries from Bainbridge and Vashon Island to Seattle had an actual armed escort of Coast Guard cutters, Washington State Ferries never did this.

Ordinarily I'd suspect it's just a plot to keep people in the terminal a bit longer, so they can watch the giant TV and buy the overpriced coffee and trinkets. But this is just one for Stupid Security.

Comments

[espressoman.livejournal.com]

"I completely don't understand why they are searching passengers going from Canada to Canada."

And WHY are we carrying PASSPORTS to travel within Canada?

You need 2 pieces of picture ID to get on a plane from
point A to B --
That means a DRIVERS LICENSE (if you have one...) and a P.P.
Bullshit.

Get used to the phrase "PAPERS PLEASE!" folks.
We are quickly moving towards a fascist-like state
not-unlike Nazi Germany where we need "papers" to
go anywhere by air or sea within our own borders.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Soviet Russia had "internal passports" as well.

We are coming to resemble the rest of the world, in that suspicion of the motives and movements of one's own citizenry and arbitrary police powers are the norm.

How odd to think that up until about the start of the First World War, passports generally did not exist. If you were rich enough to travel, you did not pose a threat and therefore did not need "papers".

[espressoman.livejournal.com]

I am optomistic - I think "The People" [that's us...]
will prevail.
We will say NO to oinks, dogs, rent-an-oinks, stuff-shirts,
politicians, war-mongers and the like.

YES to freedom.

Freedom, baby, yeaaaaaaaa!

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

You have complete freedom to stay at home, baby, yeaaaa...
I think that's what they really want; if no one moves around, there's no trouble.