Flyboy
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Go re-read the article and tell me where she tried to access a federal installation; as near as I can tell, she wanted to stay on the bus. It wasn't her fault, design, or idea for the public transportation to run through the federal facility. If the Feds are going to allow traffic--such as city buses--to drive through their facility, then they need to check the passengers as they depart the bus, rather than harassing everybody. If the facility needs to be that secure, perhaps the Feds ought not allow public buses through the gate in the first place.a requirement to show photo ID for access a U.S. federal installation
Also, I didn't see anything in the story about the bomb-sniffing dogs, mirrors under the bus, searching under seats/in cargo bays/etc. Granted, they might have happened and not been mentioned, but I'm more inclined to think this is a combination of "Security Theatre" and "Get Back In Your Place, Peon!"
And, for the record, I only meant to invoke images of authoritarianism and internal checkpoints, not Nazism specifically; unfortunately, my Russian, Chinese, Korean, and such are all much weaker than my German, so German will have to do.
--Flyboy, who has worked at federal installations before, including in a supercomputer center that processed classified (and highly classified at that) data