If You Ride the Maryland Transit Administration's Trains and Buses

Just mutter, at least once during each trip, the following words:

"The Director of the MTA is a fascist pig who has sex with goats."

The MTA was moving forward with plans to listen in on the conversations of riders of its trains and buses.

At least it was, until word of the plan leaked out. Now they've apparently decided that it was not such a good idea.

I'd like to know the names of the idiots who thought it was a good idea in the first place.

Apparently, the assholes running mass transit systems in Cleveland, Denver and Chicago already monitor the conversations of passengers. I understand Chicago; the mayor is a second-generation imperious goon. Denver showed their lack of understanding of the concepts of "civil liberty" and "freedom" during the `08 Democratic Convention. But Cleveland?

This episode shows why we need a free press. You can't trust anybody to respect individual liberties anymore. The default position of those who work for the government is to move towards a police surveillance state.

We have to watch them constantly to keep our own freedoms.