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TSA Bans Flight If You Refuse To Show ID

Posted by kdawson on from the john-gilmore-loophole dept.

mytrip notes a CNet blog entry on the recent TSA rule change banning flight to anyone who refuses to produce ID. It's OK if you claim to have lost or forgotten your ID — you undergo a pat-down and hand search of your carry-on bag and you're on your way. The new rule goes into effect June 21. "The change of rules seems to be a pretty obvious case of security theater. Real terrorists do not refuse to show ID. They claim to have lost their ID, or they use a fake. TSA's new rules only protect us from a non-existent breed of terrorists who are unable to lie."

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  1. Re:Yeah, about fake IDs by gd23ka · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Even if humans are not responsible for global climate change, it is still our responsibility to fix it."

    You really want your carbon tax bad :-) How do you know it's broken? Because Al Gore blew a huge
    flatulent lie out his ass?

  2. Re:Big Deal by jav1231 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, that has a lot to do with this thread. Grow up, Dumbass.

  3. Re:Yeah, about fake IDs by Dun+Malg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There are no terrorists. You might as well be talking about the intentions and capabilities of magical elves. Yes, and those guys shooting at me in Afghanistan were all peaceful farmers and herdsmen defending their homeland from the imperialist invaders!

    (I know, you probably believe that, too. It's easy to be an "expert" from your mother's basement, isn't it...)
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  4. Re:Yeah, about fake IDs by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    plan to harm people for reasons that are largely religious in nature. Wow. Shit. Is that the definition of terrorism? Damn, how stupid I have been. Sorry everyone, obviously I thought terrorism was something completely different to what everyone else does. Oops!

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  5. Re:Yeah, about fake IDs by Zemran · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And the Israelis bomb some Palestinian village or Lebanese village and refuse to stop killing, that is also terrorism. There is no demand, just dead bodies in revenge for the ones on the other side of the border. So the Palestinians do exactly the same and the Israelis do exactly the same again...

    And now we are doing it again in Iraq and Afghanistan... when we indiscriminately bomb a town in Iraq saying that there are insurgents there, how are we any different? We kill lots of innocent people in the hope that the indiscriminate killing will make the people that do not agree with us invading their country stop fighting back...

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  6. Re:Yeah, about fake IDs by Das+Modell · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    No, I really do not see it as flamebaiting. Perhaps you can explain to me why having an opinion that differs from Slashdot's leftist groupthink should be regarded as flamebaiting.