Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early

twitter wrote to mention that the TSA (Transport Security Administration) has released a new set of proposed rules that is raising quite a stir among groups ranging from the ACLU to the American Society of Travel Agents. Under the new rules airlines would be required to submit a passenger manifest (including full name, sex, date of birth, and redress number) for all flights departing, arriving, or flying over the United States at least 72 hours prior to departure. Boarding passes will only be issued to those passengers that have been cleared. "Hasbrouck submitted that requiring clearance in order to travel violates the US First Amendment right of assembly, the central claim in John Gilmore's case against the US government over the requirement to show photo ID for domestic travel. [...] ACLU's Barry Steinhardt quoted press reports of 500,000 to 750,000 people on the watch list (of which the no-fly list is a subset). 'If there are that many terrorists in the US, we'd all be dead.' TSA representative Kip Hawley noted that the list has been carefully investigated and halved over the last year. 'Half of grossly bloated is still bloated,' Steinhardt replied."

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[SuperKendall]

I'm many orders of magnitude more likely to be screwed by being unable to travel freely, than I am to be hurt by a terrorist who doesn't think to get a ticket 72 hours in advance.

Which just brings me back to notiing that you slashsheep didn't read the PDF but only the summery. The summary was dead wrong as the PDF says no such thing and allows you to travel whenever you like (sorry, have to book within 30 minutes of plane travel which is needed to board anyway!).

More ridiculous hyperbolic crap

[SIIHP]

"You can't leave with your money. Check with IRS, but I don't think they'll let you without filing forms and taxes and getting permission."

YES YOU CAN, and the fact that your would claim with certainty that it is otherwise, then say "I don't think" shows exactly how much you know about the topic.

"Denying ability to fly is for transportation like denying ability to buy food in a market is to eating."

Bullshit. The fact that you have to resort to an analogy between a necessity (food) and a luxury (airline travel) shows how far you had to twist reality to make if fit your moronic assumptions.