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Are you sure we are talking about the Metrolink in California, and not the St. Louis area?

Yeah, I’m talking about the one in L.A. For what it’s worth, Google says there's another one in the Quad Cities. There must be an acute shortage of names for transit systems.

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In California affirmative action hiring quotas have been unconstitutional since long before the deadly Mr. Sanchez was hired.

Well, you and I aren’t THAT naive. We both know that just because something may have been ruled as unconstitutional, it doesn’t mean that it still can't take place “under the radar.”

Housing discrimination still takes place, even though it was ruled to be unconstitutional. The perpetrators are just more sneaky about it now.

It’s against the law to ride a Metrolink train without a ticket, but we’d be really stupid to think that, just because such a law is on the books, it will always be adhered to.

It’s against the law to drive and talk on your cell phone simultaneously. Yeah, that law is really being obeyed. **snicker** **snicker**

And, with all this in mind, yes, it’s against the law to have hiring quotas and/or extend favoritism to certain ethnic and demographic groups. ** wink** **wink**

The list goes on and on. Do you want more examples?

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But do you actually have an opinion?

Yes. See what you think of this one:

If we didn’t have laws on the books that required companies to hire homosexuals, then Rob Sanchez quite possibly wouldn’t have been hired as a train engineer. Consequently, his pursuit of under-age teenage boys wouldn’t have caused a train wreck that resulted in the deaths of 25 people.

See? What's wrong with some occasional discrimination here and there? Twenty-five people might still be alive today.