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Civil Liberties

Jim Lane

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8. This is not exclusively "the Trump administration's viciousness"

Reply to LisaM (Reply #6)

Sun Dec 23, 2018, 01:12 PM

Dec 2018

I was on a bus (either Greyhound or Trailways, can't remember which) in northern New York during the pre-Trump years. Our bus was boarded by these agents, who demanded that everyone show ID.

I wasn't sure if they were legally entitled to my compliance. Nevertheless, I wanted to get home without any hassle, so I complied instead of making a stand on principle. I felt bad about going along with authoritarianism.

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