His rights are your rights, bub. When someone like him with a strong libertarian streak has enough money to take on the bureaucrats everyone is the potential beneficiary.
Like him, I'd like to know what law demands that we show our ID at the airport. I stopped flying in 2002 after getting exasperated at SFO. Every 100 feet I was searched, patted down, asked for ID, made to take off my clothing, etc., apparently all because the airlines hadn't searched enough white males that day.
If the feds have a law requiring us to show our papers, maybe they should let us peasants know about it.
You have the right to ask Gilmore for his ID? I didn't think so. If you are referring to your "right" to travel in simulated safety due to an ineffective government regulation, then no, you don't have that right either.
To people like this life is all about their PERSONAL rights....forget everyone else's rights.
The "educated-beyond-their-own-intelligence" crowd will make a national hero out of this short-sighted, selfish slug.
His philosophy seems to be, "if I can build something that breaks your code I am entitled to do whatever I want to do." He has no moral problem with what he does but don't expect him to follow somebody else's rules.
...Another sterling example of a seemingly intelligent person so caught up in himself, and his own rights, he has no room in his mind or heart to consider the safety of anyone else...
You appear to be so afraid for your own safety that you don't give a damn about anyone else's rights.
No, sorry but I would turn this around and hand it back to you as potentially someone who is willingly so caught up in your own personal safety and the "security" the government can offer, that you have no room in your mind or heart to consider the constitutional birthrights of your fellow citizens and the future generations of Americans.
This paragraph from the article is absolutely unacceptable;
"...the government asked a judge to hold a hearing in secret and preclude Gilmore's lawyers from seeing the regulation they sought to challenge..."
and I applaud Mr. Gilmore for spending his remaining days and his wealth to do what he can to protect the privacy and at least some of the constitutional rights we were born with in this country.
Like it or not, THIS is what America is about. If we lose our rights in the name of fighting terrorism, what exactly was the point?
Being blind has it blessings...
It's pretty intelligent to ask for the law to be cited publically. Our Constitution, the BOR are in black and white. So should any law applying to US citizens.
I can see from many responses that secret laws by our government are wholeheartedly supported. If you didn't get this from the article, perhaps you didn't bother to read it, or read it so quickly that the full measure didn't sink in.
In any case, I certainly sparked the debate; it's interesting to see who is coming down on which side.
" To people like this life is all about their PERSONAL rights....forget everyone else's rights"
Our Republic is about PERSONAL rights not a socialistic, nanny-state, herd mentality. We as free Americans now have to prove to some bureaucrat that we're worthy to spend our hard earned money to engage in commerce with a private air carrier. We are being told what to do not asked, that tells me we are free no longer. What's worse, goverment at all levels seems intent on subjugating the citizenry. Why do we have ex-KGB and Stasi generals working ion OUR Homeland Security department? These are not the actions of a benevolent government.
< To people like this life is all about their PERSONAL rights....forget everyone else's rights.
Isn't that what this nation is about? Freedom and Liberty for the individual, and an enumerated list of responsibilities and powers for the government. This guy is rebelling about laws we are required to obey, but not allowed to see what those laws are. How can anyone defend that?
I-ME-MY-MINE
I hate I-ME-MY-MINEs
He'd already been searched (illegally) for any weapons.
So why is presenting ID necessary?