NYPD: Do you really trust them?

So the paranoia has reached a new height: "random" subway searches. All the local rags are writing about it today like the NYT's reaction piece. Great, the Fearful Ones have another pacifier to make them feel safer. Let's be frank: random searches are going to be fruitless. If you're supportive of this new invasion of our privacy, let me posit this question: do you really expect it to be random? The only randomness will be the police man's profiles.

At what point do we stop this madness. Our country's leadership has deceptively put us into danger on the back of Our Tragedy (9/11 for you dolts). And now they wish to erode our fundamental rights to instill the Fear. After all, Fear is good for control and power. Make no mistake, this is the inevitable result of the road the Fearful Ones have put us on. Keeping us Fearful is the best way to consolidate power and hoodwink us from their apparently corrupt nature.

Don't tell me things like "I've got nothing to hide" because it only demonstrates your fundamental lack of perspective and your overwhelming ignorance. White blindness is so infuriating; society is not equal for all and whites are never subjected to egregious overreach of power. You don't pass policemen or National Guardsmen with automatic weapons and feel intimidated, concerned that your skin color will raise their suspicions. Nor have you gotten the long stares as you board your train to get to work or go out for a few drinks on the weekend.

Your feelings of safety are being carved out of my sense of security. And that's unacceptable to me as a minority and even more so as an American.