Originally posted by CO Vet
reply to post by matth
That's fine, matth. Just saying you want the bus lines to pay for and provide security that they already are doing. You don't want government
involvement, except for oversight, whatever that'll accomplish. And I have a feeling if they did what you want, a metal detector and armed security
that actually look like security, quite a few individuals would complain about "Big Brother" sticking it's nose in where it doesn't belong. Also,
have you considered how the bus lines are going to pay for providing this additional security? You don't want government involvement except for
oversight, so that's out. Guess it'd have to be higher fares and/or a service fee for those using the terminal. Then what do they do about people
getting on the buses at backwood stops? Guess the bus will have to be equipped with metal detectors, and one of these security guards will have to be
assigned to every bus. And you think the bus lines are going to do this?
Who would complain about Big Brother sticking it's nose where it doesn't belong, when all it involves is putting a metal detector in a bus depot to
prevent weapons going on board the bus? You? I think that would be it, and the people who think like you would be in the minority. I was
suggesting, and nothing more or nothing less, the following:
1. Put metal detectors in the bus depots. Not rectal scanners, not fingerprint scanners, not DNA stealers, just a fricking metal detector.
2. Make the bus lines pay for it, and if that means raising fares then so be it. I'm pretty sure nobody would have an issue with paying an extra
few bucks for actual security for the bus depot and bus they got on. And if you've actually ever used the buses here in Canada on a regular bases
and have been to these bus depots in a major city on a regular bases, you would know what I'm talking about. If you or anyone else were to have a
problem with paying an extra couple of dollars for extra security, then you have every right not to use their services.
3. All the government has to do is set up industry standards to make sure that the bus company ensures safe passage for their customers, no different
than the industry standards set up in other forms of business.
4. Have properly trained security to make sure that the depots are safe and to make sure, combined with metal detectors, that no weapons get on the
bus. This doesn't mean putting scared to death guys in their early twenties with minimal training and no way to enforce the rules in the bus
depot...it means using trained security. Not the National Guard, not the secret police, not the CIA or CSIS, just properly trained security.
I don't know how much more clear I can make myself, but if we were to listen to you and your know it all attitude, then just leave things the way
they are so people can continue to get away with bull# like this. Excuse my language, but I'm just so dumbfounded that you have nothing better to do
with your time than pick an argument with me over getting some security into a form of mass transit that has hardly any security to begin with.
We're not talking about RFID chips or warrantless phone tapping. We're talking about bare minimal security at a place were there's no security and
it resulted in a guy's head being cut off. There's plenty of other things on this site to start pointless arguments over, so why not focus on that
instead?
