flynn23 wrote:
] ] The U.S. Department of Justice has asked an appellate
] ] court to keep its arguments secret for a case in which
] ] privacy advocate John Gilmore is challenging federal
] ] requirements to show identification before boarding an
] ] airplane.
]
] Yes! The Bush Administration is continuing to erode your civil
] liberties! Without shame even!

Whatever. You are such a retard that I believe you may as well go join the Al Queda and see that even they will agree with me, slice your stupid american head off and roll it off the top of a golden ziggurat! You should show ID before boarding an Airplane, regardless of the infringement on your civil liberties. Nowhere in the Constitution, Bill of Rights, or even in the ACLU records, do I see any infringement of rights by having to show ID before you get on board a goddam plane! Now, let me tell you a bit about me, so you get a better picture of what you are dealing with. I used an expired license for four years to do everything I needed to do. Now, this created quite a few wrinkles in my day-to-day activities. For one, no one would cash a check for me when I was out of state. Another wrinkle lay in my ability to acquire alcohol. Some stores just wouldn't honor an expired license, as if, when the license expired, I ceased to be me. I still felt like me, but to the moron at the liquor store, or 7-11, who denied me smokes or booze, I was no longer the person who turned 18 almost a decade ago. This was fun. Seriously. I liked it. It turned life into more of a game. I like this sort of thing. However, I did not renew the license since my eyesight is failing and I cannot drive, which meant that the license was a thing of frivolity as far as I was concerned. So, I decided not to pay the state to tell me I was still me, and I suffered the consequences. However, if I got drunker than a skunk on grain and smoked enough cigarettes to turn Michael Jackson's lungs black and cashed my shitty little checks till I was a fuggin' millionaire, I would have affected no one but myself. (Unless if I invested one of my aforementioned shitty checks in a plane ticket and a box cutter). However, if you are getting on a plane, which can be used as a deadly weapon of mass destruction, as 9/11 showed us, then I think asking some dumb asshole american to show a little proof of identity is not necessarily a bad thing. In this way, your fucking ignorance astounds me. My liberal side shows up regarding issues of free speech, ability to do that which does not directly affect another,
compassion for the poor, corporate accountability, the end of corporate welfare, and saving the fucking seals. However, nowhere in my credo is allowing 200 passengers of a plane to be at the mercy of one fuckup who wants to shatter their lives under a hail of religious ferver-cum-psychosis that ends up causing death, destruction and the furtherance of (usually liberal) invasions of privacy. However, if I am a pilot, and you get on my plane, I wanna know who the fuck you are! IF you don't wanna show ID, then get on a fucking bus or train. You can do less damage that way. Besides, if you can afford a plane ticket, you can afford the 20 bucks that a license or state ID costs, max. I called out of work on September 11, 2001. I did it the night before. I had no fucking idea what was gonna happen. All I know is I had friends, a girlfriend, parents and other strangers who would have lost their minds if I had died. Since I called out, I was not on the path train that morning that the planes hit. The next morning, I was suprised to find that there was nothing in place to prevent me from smuggling C4 up from NJ to NY where I would place it by the Empire State Building and blow the fucker sky-high. No searches, no dogs, no cops. Just a couple of Army assholes standing in Penn Station doing nothing. I believe we need more security. If you aren't smuggling drugs or weapons you have nothing to worry about. I would feel safer if they Id'd people on planes. You can't blame me unless you are as much of an asshole as I imagine you are. If you want to help make life more fucked up, you are doing an excellent job. I would like to live, myself. Maybe if you weren't having fun in the sun at college a million miles away, you would feel the same. You are simply an anti-bush rabble rouser. If I were president, I would have you in a prison in Cuba.

RE: Government wants ID arguments secret