I invite everyone to do something they might never have thought of doing.....riding a train. No seriously. My wife and I took a train across the country to Chicago and discovered why the whole argument about spending money for "national security" is so much a political attempt to scare you into thinking we can have security in a free society. Not only were we not checked for identification, weapons, or anything else but our luggage could have been full of explosives and not even the train ...