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Government Asks Court to Keep ID Arguments Secret

Posted by michael on from the catch-22 dept.

RobXiii writes " CNN has a story on privacy advocate John Gilmore (Co-founder of the EFF) taking the federal government to court, to stop the requirement of ID for in country flights. In an ironic twist, the U.S. Department of Justice is asking the court to keep its argument for the secret law secret. How are we supposed to follow a law when the law itself can't be disclosed?"

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  1. Fear is the true terrorist. by BoomerSooner · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And the republican party uses their new tool very well.

    Republicans are facist (nazi germany, italy under mussolini)
    Democrats are socialist (ussr communist aka socalist, china)

    Meet in the middle and avoid the extremes and everyone prospers. Get caught up on the fringes and you become GWBush or Stalin.

  2. Re:America as a fascist state? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your hypothesis is true. Due to the current lack of interest of most American voters in maintaining their free country, you now have a simple electoral choice to make:

    1) The guy who plays hard against terrorism, and turns the country into a Facist state.

    2) The guy who plays nice to terrorists, and turns the country into a free love paradise where terrorists are free to kill people at will.

    Or, you could go to all the time and trouble of recallin the people who brought in the DMCA, and the Patriot act, etc., etc....but that might interfere with the reality TV show schedule...

    Bread and circuses.

  3. Re:America as a fascist state? by Timothy+Brownawell · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I agree it's very scary to have to show your papers, and have guys with big machine guns standing in train stations (visit Penn station at some point), and I would support any and all alternatives that could accomplish the same effect. I just can't think of any off hand except give in to the many and varied demands of anyone who waves a bomb in our collective faces, and I think that will just cause more trouble, not less.
    Why not just shoot 'em? More effective, and possibly even legal (self-defense, whatever "defense of others" is called).

    You could try to prevent them from waving the bomb in your face, you could let them and then do whatever they want, or you can make it pointless (and suicidal) for them to try.

    Tim