Papers? Show Me Your Papers
I’m one of those people who believe that my right to travel within the U.S. does not require the use of identification, but the potential for internal security documentation requirements will soon reach the point where we all throw up our hands and give in. The Transportation Security Administration is about to impose new restrictions on persons seeking to travel on any commercial flight in the country. I especially like that they’re targeting “violent felons” so we don’t have to fly next to an “ax murderer.” Do they believe their own lies? This is very obviously another one of the civil liberty infringements the Bush Administration is attempting under the banner of keeping us safe from terrorists, but the killers who flew the planes in the terror attacks of September 11 wouldn’t have been picked up this way, would they? It’s of particular interest that they mention locating members of the Animal Liberation Front, an extreme activist group (who haven’t killed anyone, by the way). Read the Department of Homeland Security’s press release, but keep your blood pressure medication handy.