[freebilly]

first, by not presenting ID, you are not consenting to search and therefore cannot board; second, by not presenting ID, you cause the airline to think that you might be inimical to safety, which allows them to deny you boarding

You'd do Orwell proud. You can consent to a search without ID. If you, your luggage, etc are searched and nothing is found, how does not having ID impact airline safety?

[Spktyr]

If you don't like the law, sue to have it tossed out or lobby to have it repealed. I'm specifically addressing the original article which says that the law is "secret." It's not, and there's the legal basis for Mr. Idiot to be asked for his ID. If he doesn't like the law, he always has those two options.

[Smartaleck]

"If you, your luggage, etc are searched and nothing is found, how does not having ID impact airline safety?"

How do they know it's your luggage?

If the plane goes down.........how do they ID you and notifiy your loved ones? (This was a problem after 911 and prompted further regulations for ID's and a passenger manifest of those ID's. Concurrently, an accurate manifest would have narrowed down who the terrorist were that got on the plane by process of elimination. I.E. we can rule out Freebilly because the ID HE PRESENTED checks out so it must be somebody else.)