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Flying Faster Without ID
jjh37997 writes "A Homeland Security's privacy advisory committee member finds that flying without a photo ID is actually faster than traveling with proper identification. According to Wired the committee member, Jim Harper, accepted a bet from civil liberties rabble-rouser John Gilmore to test whether he could actually fly without showing identification. He found that traveling without ID allowed him to bypass the long security lines at San Francisco's International Airport, and get in faster than if he had provided his driver's license."
... from looking for people trying to kill other people, to escort him through expedited security. Let's change the law NOW to require i.d. for freaks like this unwilling to take the threat of terrorism seriously and realize that there are trade-offs. Just try buying something with a check of, sometimes, a credit card without i.d.; just try getting a job without i.d. (albeit at the cost of illegal aliens being a major source of identity theft, a second-order result since anyone here legally has proper i.d.).
This isn't about "terrorism".
This is about demonizing a group so that the rest of society can "unify" to "defeat" the "bad guys".
And as for the "more harm than good", you just have to read the papers.
Most of the airlines these days lets you print a boarding pass at home up to a day in advance when using an e-ticket. Don't need ID for that.
Yes you do. If you have an e-ticket, you must show ID to the airline before you can board.
That's a separate requirement from the TSA security lines.
The challenge should have been purchasing a ticket, making it through security, and
boarding the plane without showing ID, not just making it through security.
You cannot fly in the U.S. without ID.
Look in the mirror once in a while... Most of the hot spots on the globe were once ruled by the British. The borders of just about every country in the Middle East were determined by the Brits. India-Pakistan ring a bell? What you pikers did to the Irish for a thousand years is the definition of terrorism. What they did to you was a slap on the wrist.