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FREEDOM It's slowly being eroded away. The list the AAR made sounds like profiling to me. It's exactly like police pulling over young, black males driving alone in certain types of cars in Miami. Profiling is not legal policing practices. Railroads can do it because they are free to: they are not government agents. Police are government agents and if they profile there will be legal repercussions. As long as I'm on public property and do not commit any harm to the railroad, or anything else for that matter, there should be no reason to be arrested. I can see some Supreme Court cases coming about because of this. To use an example of what I mean by public areas: a person is free to park their car on the side of the street of any neighborhood that does not have no parking signs. Sometimes residents will get mad at someone who parked in front of their house and tell the driver to move their car. The driver can always respond with "this is a public street and I'm entitled to park where I want," so long as it dosen't block a driveway. Now the AAR wants to ban train watching, train pacing, the way we dress, the way we look, etc. They consider this suspicious? THIS TYPE OF ACTIVITY HAS BEEN OCURRING FOR DECADES! It's no longer a suspicious activity! Weird, yes, in some people's mind, but not uncomman. The AAR list aslo brings up the question: Is BNSF going to continue to promote the Microsoft's Train Simulator's Featured Locomotive hunt? Are they going to set a trap? Drop the hunt? Or drop the AAR's ludicrous profiling scheme? And is Microsoft going to pull train simulator off the shelf because this might teach terrorists to cra***rains into Union Station? Oh, wait, I forgot about the movie Silver Streak. Remember how mush fear that instilled on everyone? (In case you can't tell, I was being ludicrous to prove a point). All I'm saying is watch out for the double-edged sword called hypocracy. I agree with Paul W. If we have to change our way of life, the normalcy, then the terrorist will have won. I have always been a proud, flag-waving patriot of the USA before the attacks and always will be. I have always been a railfan and will continue to watch trains in the same manner as I have before the attacks. I won't trespass, but, even in the past I have always realized the risks of trespassing. America will survive because we're Americans. Have faith. Have will power. We'll conquor the terrorits. As Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. once said, "If the mountains and oceans can be overcome, then certainly anything man-made can be overcome," when talking about Nazi fortifications. Bin Laden's not going to curtail my railfaning activities and you shouldn't let him either.
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