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Why Pa. should deploy the National Guard to SEPTA right now
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 04/09/2024 | opinion staff

Posted on 04/09/2024 6:27:02 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen


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Every day, SEPTA employees see criminal acts, fare evasion, people experiencing mental illness, homelessness, or drug addiction. The union I lead, Transport Workers Union Local 234, which represents 5,000 SEPTA workers, has been sounding the alarm that unless conditions improve, the very survival of the public transit system is at stake.

In response, we have been asked by image-conscious SEPTA managers and other public officials to tone things down and not draw too much attention to the transit agency’s challenges.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: killadelphia; paping; pennsylvania; philadelphia; septa; twulocal234; unions; williegreen
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Progressives want to force you on to public transportation but won't protect you or let you protect yourself.
BUT just keep telling yourself crime is down!


SEPTA - South Eastern PA Transportation Authority.

1 posted on 04/09/2024 6:27:02 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: lightman

PA Philly Ping !!


2 posted on 04/09/2024 6:28:16 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Keep voting Dem PA, I’m sure that will fix it.


3 posted on 04/09/2024 6:30:25 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I believe the ultimate goal of the Democrats refusing to prosecute criminals is when things get completely out of control, declare a national emergency and invite the military, not ours, but the UN to take over and restore law and order. And we’ll let you know when or if there will be another national election.


4 posted on 04/09/2024 6:34:57 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Kid Shelleen

As shrugs Atlas, so shrugs SEPTA...

We are witnessing the deterioration of America as the modern day Roman Empire. A small barely noticed piece at a time.


5 posted on 04/09/2024 6:36:12 AM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Kid Shelleen

Nothing good can come from anything named “SEPTA.”


6 posted on 04/09/2024 6:37:16 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: Kid Shelleen

They stopped enforcing criminal law to condition us for acceptance of martial law.

“Your papers please.”


7 posted on 04/09/2024 6:39:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Prediction: watch for this to be pushed in other Democrat cintrolled cities. Its not really about crime, imho.


8 posted on 04/09/2024 6:41:15 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Since the National Guard has no power to arrest people (for the time being) what will be their purpose?


9 posted on 04/09/2024 7:06:01 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey (The “only Trumpers” are just as damaging to the conservative cause as are the “never Trumpers”)
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To: Tench_Coxe
Its not really about crime, imho.

Bingo!

It is almost certainly about inducing chaos that will necessarily justify an increase in government control over our public lives, a coup by indirect means.

Covid was such a learning event. Much of our government's response in that event was both inadequate and unnecessary.

10 posted on 04/09/2024 7:09:08 AM PDT by frog in a pot (If election officials ignore voting regulations, illegal aliens will vote as told..)
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To: Sir_Humphrey
Since the National Guard has no power to arrest people (for the time being) what will be their purpose?

I challenged a member of the Guard on that point some time ago who was directing traffic to a route I did not want to take - his response was that many of "us" are sworn deputy Sheriffs.

11 posted on 04/09/2024 7:13:55 AM PDT by frog in a pot (If election officials ignore voting regulations, illegal aliens will vote as told..)
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To: xoxox

We call it SEPTIC. As soon as you step onto the stairs to the platform septic tank odors hit your face.


12 posted on 04/09/2024 7:23:50 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Is SEPTA kinda like a septic tank?


13 posted on 04/09/2024 7:44:44 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

And PA should stop subsidizing SEPTA from liquid fuels taxes
--except perhaps from tax collected from Philly and the Phillyburbs.

14 posted on 04/09/2024 7:47:18 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

First I’ve heard opf a Filthadelphia SEPTA problem; it’s always NYC’s subway in the news (rode it 2x in 11yrs in Midtown).


15 posted on 04/09/2024 8:06:10 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: antidemoncrat

Sounds accurate.


16 posted on 04/09/2024 8:41:52 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

SEPTA sounds septic, but, hey, it’s a union.


17 posted on 04/09/2024 9:57:53 AM PDT by DPMD (ua)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Gov. Shapiro said no.


18 posted on 04/09/2024 10:59:14 AM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: Kid Shelleen

Gov. Shapiro said no.


19 posted on 04/09/2024 10:59:21 AM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: Kid Shelleen

Yo, Kid Shelleen! Where ya been? I’ve missed seeing you around here!


20 posted on 04/09/2024 4:24:35 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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