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John Gilmore Sues Ashcroft et al. for Freedom to Travel

ChTom writes "John Gilmore initiated a federal suit today in CA Northern District against Ashcroft, et al, challenging the air travel ID requirement: http://cryptome.org/freetotravel.htm (Mr. Gilmore is a businessman, civil libertarian, and philanthropist. He was the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems, an early author of open source software, and co-creator of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks, the DES Cracker, and the Internet's "alt" newsgroups. He serves as a director on several for-profit and nonprofit boards. )"

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  1. whee! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    moo

  2. lolz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    heh first one

  3. GO JOHN! by lobsterGun · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Best of luck to ya!

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    It's been 19 seconds since you hit 'reply'!

  4. Hello by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Introduction

    The cheese wheel inexorably avoids contact with the paycheck. The steam engine goes deep sea fishing with an often outer ski lodge. When the cyprus mulch over a vacuum cleaner hides, a ball bearing gets stinking drunk.

    The tornado

    For example, a submarine behind a class action suit indicates that the optimal fairy satiates an Alaskan recliner. When a mitochondrial bottle of beer is thoroughly dirt-encrusted, a most difficult blood clot underhandedly writes a love letter to a defendant. An earring pees on the cashier over some globule, but the pathetic crane sells another vacuum cleaner behind a scythe to a false wheelbarrow. If a chess board defined by a grain of sand makes love to a crispy cyprus mulch, then a particle accelerator flies into a rage.

    A Eurasian globule

    The feline minivan earns frequent flier miles, and the buzzard defined by a ball bearing trembles; however, a senator living with the girl scout learns a hard lesson from the inferiority complex. Any chain saw can try to seduce the particle accelerator, but it takes a real salad dressing to play pinochle with the inexorably precise paycheck. Furthermore, another seldom load bearing defendant flies into a rage, and a paycheck around a light bulb seeks a roller coaster around another bartender. If a crank case makes love to the diskette, then the squid toward a mortician meditates. Now and then, an insurance agent thoroughly avoids contact with a pompous turkey.

    A microscope

    Most people believe that an orbiting diskette trades baseball cards with a movie theater, but they need to remember how secretly a statesmanlike short order cook wakes up. A paternal roller coaster is usually financial. When the accurately varigated hole puncher takes a coffee break, a slyly smelly garbage can earns frequent flier miles. For example, the phony cheese wheel indicates that the tornado near a fruit cake hesitantly gives lectures on morality to a salad dressing defined by the corporation. The carpet tack near a cargo bay, some parking lot toward a warranty, and a stovepipe beyond a freight train are what made America great!

    Conclusions

    A judge beyond the briar patch laughs and drinks all night with the snooty chestnut. A raspy burglar conquers a bowling ball. For example, another plaintiff toward a bartender indicates that the ski lodge behind a fairy finds lice on a burglar. If some rattlesnake toward a cheese wheel can be kind to a blood clot, then the elusive movie theater self-flagellates. When a photon related to a turkey is most difficult, a self-loathing bottle of beer falls in love with a pickup truck living with the paycheck.

    - posted by poopbot: because we're all crapflooders at heart

    PwHcqmfPsf Post #278

    1. Re:Hello by poopbot by SpacePunk · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      I see that all rumors of the death of Dada are premature.

  5. NICE TRY, DINGLEBERRY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Since all trolls only get 2 posts per day (and that's if they aren't banned for calling moderators the reeking GNU hippies that they are), trolls are now having to resort to pathetic ACism.

    *Sigh*. But to look on the bright side of things, maybe because of us they'll disable anonymous posting. That way, even if Slashdot sucks, there won't be any retarded AC's.

    Sincerely yours,
    JismTroll

  6. thuh CLiT is nowhere to be found by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Cuz they are all wanking it to thuh goatse guy!

  7. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This post makes more sense than the article! +5, informative!!!

  8. Re:Nyet! by wdr1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Do you have over 1000 [slashdot.org] comments? Why Not?

    Quality over quantity?

    -Bill

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    SlashSig Karma: Excellent (mostly affected by moderatio
  9. Sue Microsoft instead.......... by Ride-My-Rocket · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    For the right of users to install patches without having to accept EULAs that don't apply to the OS whatsoever.