Posted on 08/23/2014 7:54:00 AM PDT by rktman
Last week when I went to peruse the shelves at Barnes & Noble and used my educator card for a purchase, I was asked to show a photo ID. The next day, when I went for a planned medical procedure, I was required to display a photo ID. And finally, when I cashed a check at the local A&P, the cashier requested to see some identification. Even at a local Goodwill store, I had to show a photo ID in order to buy an item.
In addition, I needed to show my driver's license to get a new library card. It would be easier just to wear the ID around my neck; I am sure that will soon be coming as well.
Then, recently waiting to board an airplane, I was told by the TSA agent to extend my hands. He wiped my palms to see if I had any explosive material on my extremities.
Didn't have to take the shoes off this time, though. Perhaps we are going TSA lite on the lower extremities.
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but if you were here illegally you can fly on an airplane with no id whatsoever
Heck, if you’re here illegally, trespasser, you’re invisible.
Some detail might be helpful. Generally a body can waltz into a Goodwill and pay cash and nobody cares. Merchants might be taking more precautions with credit cards. Maybe their banks even require such a procedure in order to be covered if the card is later found fraudulent.
Many months ago the TSA added a shoes-ok rule for seniors. How old is the author? I underwent the hand-swab drill when flying a pet cat a couple years ago out of O’Hare on a commercial passenger flight. I carried the cat through an old fashioned metal detector. Then they swabbed for explosives. Then the cat went back in its carrier which had gone through X-ray.
Liberals today have so many cases of the vapors. I wonder if those are explosive vapors. If Islamoterrorists weren’t generally so ostentatious about it, we’d be in a far bigger pickle than we are.
I”ve been swabbed a few times and always passed. But you don’t want to fertilize your lawn right before you head to the airport (or handle your luggage, for that matter).
It’s nice to know that terrorists will not be able to sneak exploding cats onto airplanes. PETA wouldn’t like that too much.
In the 43 years I’ve been voting in bright blue Connecticut, I’ve had to show a drivers licence or some other government issued ID each time.
Democrats are comfortable with their Connecticut connections.
Busing street bums from poll to poll would be superfluous. Where it matters is swing states, where there are enough Republican leaning voters to make a difference.
I can’t wait until I fly to Tijuana and sneak back across the border so I can finally live in the shadows. I’ve been an idiot tax paying chump for too long.
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