The random views of Scott KissingerCongratulations to the bonehead dictators … er, leaders … of BART. Fearful of a protest over a shooting death by one of their cops of a homeless man in July, they cut mobile phone service in several of their underground stations a few days ago.
Isn’t that a favorite tactic of the despots in the Middle East? I could have sworn BART is in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. BART, apparently, believes neither in freedom nor bravery.
Sadly, yet another American institution has demonstrated its willingness to behave like the very regimes we denounce every day. Another flattening of the moral high ground on which we used to stand. Now that America does it, we have little standing to tell others they shouldn’t.
Perhaps there are legitimate instances when communications links can be disrupted in peacetime, but this does not strike me as one of them.
I’ll be curious to see what the FCC has to say about it. Given the rather toothless administration in the White House, probably not much. <sigh> When will someone in a position of leadership actually lead when it comes to our civil liberties and the principles on which our country was founded?
(Source: sfgate.com)
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