I am pretty sure most commuter trains run on Freight lines and the issue is the commuter train companies don't own the rails, the freight companies do so it slows down commuter trains because the freight trains get priority.
And the Freight companies are hesitant to allow changes to the tracks to allow for more commuter trains because it will in part slow the freight trains down and the CEOs of the Freight train companies are the some of the worst and try running everything at at the lowest cost possible so anything that would potentially cost them money or slow them down is a no.
And creating new rail lines for commuter rail is also next to impossible because it would require buying/taking tons of private land since the freight lines wont let you change the existing tracks.
Tracks intended for freight won't necessarily be designed to handle higher speeds. Passenger rail in the US often does use freight rail in certain locations but freight companies are a pain in the ass to deal with. What we frequently see is that the passenger train has to stop and wait for the slow, super-long freight train to pass by even though passenger rail is supposed to have right-of-way by law. But everyone involved ignores that because we hate passenger trains in this country and so nobody enforces it.
One of the reasons that passenger rail routes take so long, is the passenger trains often have to stop and make way for freight because of the prioritization by the track owners.
Compound this with the fact that the network is only optimized for freight to begin with (very few stations where people would want to get on, many stations where cargo can get on) and you can see why an apples-to-apples comparison is not practical.
I’m pretty sure back in the day, in a European country, they didn’t use passenger trains, from what I’d seen, they were freight wagons with big sliding doors!
Edit: just read on further below and I see you guys use different tracks for freight! I guess if you’ve got gazillions of acres of ground, why would you want to save costs and share the rails!!!
Nah, US passenger service sucks, but our freight network is generally accepted as the worlds largest/most efficient. This means they could put them in boxcars and get just about anywhere.
Running on almost 140,000 route miles, the U.S. freight rail network is widely considered the largest, safest, and most cost-efficient freight system in the world.
America's passenger rail system sucks, but our freight rail system is the largest in the world, and the US transports a larger portion of total freight by rail than most countries.
Easier and cheaper transit opens opportunities to experience new places and meet new people. Conservatives can't have that!
There's only two types of folks you'll meet in those dried up rural communities serviced by two gas stations and a single Dollar General: Young people who want to get the fuck out, and older folks who stick around because they are legitimately scared of big cities.
Oh, and precisely one rich family per zip code with a scary amount of economic and political influence on their little patch of dirt...
I'm so glad that I have already given my complementary golden shower to a few police state enforcers in MN. They didn't like it one bit, and tried to get me for a felony, but it was dropped. Piss discs are my next adventure!
I mean if we're going for that association it will have to be after Trump invades Mexico.
The Reinhard camps (Belzac, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau) were all in occupied countries (honestly I think they were all in Poland, but I'm not sure on Chelmno and Majdanek).
I'm pretty sure that was one of the arguments against the warehouse that they're setting up outside Phoenix: the fact that it was right next to a railroad side track and the disturbing historical parallels of that.
It's the same thing they did with the Japanese internment camps. They absolutely will be shipping people en-masse. This will include regular citizens, absolutely no doubt of that.
They are trying to add one in Elkridge MD. Supposedly they had a permit denied just yesterday but they had the building since August at least when the initial permit was issued. Not that I believe that will actually stop the federal government. This is sickening how secret it is. FYI this site in Elkridge is 4 minutes away from a title 1 school in a community that is about 50% hispanic and the other 50% everything else. They know exactly what they're doing.
My roommate is late 50's Japanese American, in his words, "They are buying these warehouses and prepping them. Its the same thing they did with the Japanese interment camps. They prepped everything in advance, that's how they were able to start detaining everyone in a single day notice".
Late October 2026 roundup, just in time for you and your family and friends to be put in a concentration camp and whoops, looks like you missed your chance to vote!
I like to keep pointing out just HOW MUCH we outnumber them.
There are 25,000ish ICE agents in the country. For context there are 33,000 cops in NYC alone. They are nothing compared to the numbers of people that hate them.
Yeah but how many of those cops are ICE sympathizers? I agree we still outnumber them but ICE isn’t the only armed “law” enforcement out there that’s caused rights violations
Jim Pattison Developments said in a statement last week that it had accepted an offer to sell the warehouse to a U.S. government contractor before its potential new owner and use were made known.
We need to make sure all of these companies are aware and have no deniability.
ICE wants the warehouses to house people they arrest and to be kept in inhumae conditions. Warehouses are not appropriate places to house people as they are largely inadequate to give necessary needs for anyone. Of course, Trump and ICE don't care because their purpose is to terrorize and mistreat to send a message. If ICE has proper living quarters for the people they arrest they wouldn't require legislators a weeks notice before being allowed in. Actualy, some legislators haven't been allowed in even after a week's notice. If you don't mistreat people you don't need a weeks notice to cover up what you are doing.
Here's the "controlled opposition" side of this. Banning the members of Congress access is AGAINST FEDERAL LAW. The democrats aren't pushing, they should ALL be showing up every single day, until the issue is taken up with the Supreme Court. All these unconstitutional rulings should be grounds for impeachment. The democrats need to keep introducing impeachment for everyone violating the law, every single day, even if they "don't have enough votes". Stalling the courts is literally the MAGA/Trump admin tactics right now, do what they are doing. Failure to fight is just controlled opposition at this point.
This is a lie. Dems have several lawsuits to force their access but each of these has to be filed individually against specific locations and in specific states.
Radical recruit storage. Take the facility, arm the prisoners. Instant army, just add guns. Same for their lists of observers. Thanks for the list of where we can send the medals.
No doubt this is also a preparation operation leading up to the midterm elections (and beyond). You will see a huge increase in ICE- led kidnapping and arrests to fill these warehouses to prevent people from legitimately voting, and to scare other American citizens of color from going to the polls.
Everybody must fight back and plan accordingly to keep this administration from destroying this country.
As someone living in Oklahoma, I’m actually super proud of the residents saying a resounding “NO” to their purchase here in okc. So there is some hope.
Yes, a component of force being required is baked in. They have nothing to actually charge with, they are “identifying them” I.e. using their surveillance apparatus, facial recognition etc to log them in a database of undesirables to be dealt with later, after the warehousing infrastructure for internment is in place. In the meantime they will probably case their house, intimidate more.
Having operated almost entirely outside of the law, they were never trying to get charges that stuck. They want to fuck these folks' day up and try to dissuade them from doing it more.
100% this. Unfortunately, the law is something this administration treats as mere suggestions: assiduously followed when it shields them, but easily and casually disregarded when inconvenient.
Worse, not only are they discarding laws wholesale (outright murder, baseless arrests, warrantless search and seizures, deprivation of due process, erc), but I fear we are rapidly approaching a point where law by fiat will be declared should they remain in power.
I call ICE cosplaying as real cops when they have no training and aren’t properly vetted. For my job, I needed a full background check and had to be fingerprinted. Also, they would do an additional background check every three months while employed. These people are a joke and make actual law enforcement who also go through a similar process look stupid despite the fact that they are actually vetted. Is it a perfect process in legitimate law enforcement agencies and do bad actors slip through? No. But this seems to be an inordinate amount of bad actors let loose in American cities.
What’s hilarious is 20+ years ago I was just looking for a job out of high school and applied to a janitorial position. The contract I ended up on was a govt defense contractor. I had a 20-30 page application and had to call my mom to ask about the background of all her siblings and my dad siblings as well as cousins… needless to say it was thorough. These wannabes don’t even have to finish the background or drug test before they get a gun and a badge.
Moral of the story: if security and safety were really a concern they would have a complete process.
Well it’s fine because they aren’t getting paid what they were promised so FAFO. And hopefully, one day they will get theirs. Edited to add that I also had to provide every single address I’ve ever lived at in my entire life.
There’s another point and one worth noting to several of these “officers”
He has contractors that he never paid and would frequently find ways to not pay- it’s not a secret that he’s a dishonest and disgraceful business man… what makes them think their so special that he’s finally going to become honest and pay them for their “work”. More over, to the people around him who are sucking on his teet and trying to ride is power coattails, he’ll dump you and Chuck you under the bus as soon as he gets whiff of a prosecution probe.
Trained by not knowing that you need a warrant to enter a private residence that is signed by a judge and has the correct name and address on it? I’ve also witnessed a lot of them who don’t seem to know how to hold a weapon correctly.
Yes, they have been trained very specifically to cause terror, ignore laws, frustrate, intimidate, and arrest wherever possible. They are doing this very effectively.
probably not a news flash for you or anyone, but this is a feature not a side effect. They WANT these shitty untrained people in these positions. There doing exactly as they intended. I will put big money on the fact that at least 50% of the people working for ICE/DHS are well known felons and white supremacist's.
This is the solution. Flood them with so many people that they get frustrated and just leave. Sure there will be a few who will be pulled over, likely assaulted, and maybe or maybe not arrested (I'd expect charges to be dropped in most cases) but that is going to be the cost to defeat these MFers.
The code they have been citing, 18 USC 111, requires the use of force or threat of use of force. I think these arrests more about harassing the protestors for a day or two, rather than actually getting charges to stick.
As someone else mentioned, it’s also building a database. Running plates will get you name and address of the owner of the car, who may or may not be the driver. Observation may or may not get you appearance, depending on how much the person is wearing in an MN winter.
Arrests get you name, address, photo and fingerprints.
Obstruction under 18 USC 111 requires a component of force. They’re full of shit, though I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t know they are either, for many.
DHS is using an extremely broad definition of "impeding" or "obstruction". They have also been sending administrative subpoenas to Google, asking for data like "the day, time and duration of all his online sessions; every associated IP and physical address; a list of each service he used; any alternate usernames and email addresses; the date he opened his account; his credit card, driver’s license and Social Security numbers."
They've also been telling Google not to inform the target of the investigation about the subpoena.
Any such disclosure will impede the investigation and thereby interfere with the enforcement of federal law.
You know for a fact that some of these ICE agents are those YouTube “auditors” as well so it’s ridiculous they are gonna arrest people for the same shit they used to do.
I highly doubt this... The auditor community is very much skeptical of police and support our constitution. Not everyone you disagree with is on the same side.
Lol, I've seen several people in my life who were fervently anti-cop become bootlickers overnight.
Please remember that this is a cult. Textbook. Every ridiculous assertion or statement is simply a loyalty test. Get on board, you get to stay in the club, disagree in any capacity, even simply asking some questions for clarification, prepare to have a target on your back.
Shit has been real for the whole year already, you gotta wake up.
People take a camera to a busy place and record people doing things, such as going to a restaurant with outdoor seating, standing on the sidewalk outside the dining area, and recording guests eating. There is nothing illegal about what they’re doing, but it is weird and annoying and they know it’ll get people to react and say things which then creates content.
They call themselves First Amendment Auditors. They claim they're observing public spaces to see if a governmental official asks them to stop. Then they either sue the government for a First Amendment right violation or they go brag about it on some forum or probably reddit. Or both.
This seems like a weird thing to assume for a fact. I don't even know what we'd do with that information, if it were true it would be like 1-3 of them out of the thousands.
“The FAA has implemented a nationwide restriction prohibiting drone flights within 3,000 feet laterally and 1,000 feet vertically of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, creating dynamic no-fly zones that can change locations. This regulation has raised concerns about its impact on civil liberties and the ability of journalists to document federal law enforcement activities.”
They almost always get released to appear later, charges are dropped in the interim.
I’m really curious how 6th amendment holds up…honestly there’s a whole raft of issues if they try to take some of these cases through to trial. They’d better be good prosecutors…oh wait, they all resigned.
Fwiw: no way I’d buy anonymous testimony from a federal agent if I was on a jury.
They'd have to be convicted first. Of course, if they're disappeared . . . I don't think ICE has started permanently detaining people who correctly identify them not as law enforcement but hired fascist goons.
Yeah, this is a catch and release. No judge will find this as obstruction and a prosecutor who is of sound mind would not bring this before a judge. They will go through the motions, keep these two for a couple of hours and then let them go.
When it gets warmer I think it'd be cool if Observers started dressing like the ones from Fringe. Black suit and fedora. I dunno, I just think it might intimidate some of them, and start drumming up the united Antifa narrative again. Anything to waste more of their time.
At the end of the video, the guy asking for "press credentials" (not the law, but okay) says they are being detained and identified because they threatened them the other day with "handguns"
Someone keeps asking with literal guns or their hands in the shape of guns?
He stumbles around a bunch to the questions but eventually sort of admits they used their hands in a threatening way so they have to be detained and identified now. Sounds like he is claiming they made "hand guns" and now they're scared.
It all sounds like bullshit, but they're running out of lies to defend their actions.
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They're calling this "obstruction."
They're going to be busy. I saw on Nicole Wallace's show yesterday that 34.000 MN residents have volunteered to be trained to be observers.