October 29, 2008 3:22PM 

# If You Don’t Think You Should Be Searched on the Subway 

By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) 

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The good folks at the Flex Your Rights Foundation have produced a [Citizen’s Guide to Refusing DC Metro Searches](http://www.flexyourrights.org/subway).

A timely response to news that there would be random searches, which is [poor counterterrorism](https://www.cato.org/2008/10/28/random-searches-poor-counterterrorism/).

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[Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy), [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) 

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