[zeugma]

Methinks John is doing good with this. The very concept of secret laws is distinctly unamerican.

[thoughtomator]

Good for him! I'd love to see him win. I remember when "your papers, please" was a standard element of anti-communist propaganda... and I'm not all that old.

[martin_fierro]

Same story

[LowOiL]

Gilmore started his own firm, sold it for more money than he seems to have bothered to count and has since devoted his time to giving it away to favored causes: drug law reform

OK...

[mcg1969]

Boo hoo. So maybe he gets the Supreme Court to mandate a more open set of laws governing airport security.

That'll be fixed in about, oh, A DAY. In fact I'll bet the Supreme Court will give the Congress and President the leeway to take care of it before they throw the airport system into a frenzy.

Please excuse me if I don't shed a tear if someone doesn't feel like identifying himself before boarding an airplane. I'm sure Mohammed Atta would have appreciated that privilege too.

[skr]

It's a no-brainer. If there's a problem on the plane, they need to know who is on it. Of course, if this man had his way, an escaped murderer could just buy a ticket and fly off. Also, the airlines could require the ID, even if the government didn't.

[Can i say that here?]

Mr. Gilmore can spend some of those millions learning to fly and buy himself a plane.

Proving the point that you are not at the mercy of the government might be a stronger form of protest than trying to prove that you are.

[Tench_Coxe]

" Court of Star Chamber " comes to mind.

[isthisnickcool]

Gilmore has enough $$$ to charter a private jet. I have a buddy who has a jet charter company and when we go somewhere I'm never asked for ID:)

[fight_truth_decay]

Posted: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1352087/posts

Then read his website: http://www.toad.com/gnu/
He's unable to travel because he refuses to present a government-approved ID
John Gimore: "In my spare time I practice Iyengar Yoga, read, listen to music....travel...., program, and socialize."

John Gilmore's homepage.

Disarming the United States. The Bush Administration should be forced by United Nations resolutions to surrender its "weapons of mass destruction" or face the consequences. "Any government that repeatedly threatens and attacks other soveriegn countries without provocation, that holds massive stocks of nuclear and conventional weapons, that tortures its own citizens and those of other countries, that refuses to follow its own constitution and laws as well as international treaties which it co-created and signed, that holds 500,000 political prisoners in its jails, that imprisons the largest number and percentage of its people in the world... Any such government needs to immediately disarm and submit to a regime change, or face the consequences from the international community." See also the Pictures from the Iraq war that the US tried to censor so that Americans could not see them.

For someone who likes to remain "isolated from government view", Gilmore charts his achievements and anything else he thinks you want to know about him and his issues on [self]privacy". You only have to follow the yellow brick road on his self promoting website. ;)

[PERKY2004]

I just don't like the idea of "secret laws." How can we determine if they are (1) constitutional and (2) being properly enforced/fairly applied if we cannot see them?

(I am not saying that the law is/is not a good law, I am just saying that we have no way of telling. I see that as a potential problem.)

God Bless America!

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

I am no supporter of big brother....BUT you have to show ID to write checks, make returns and buy alcohol and tobacco. Why shouldn't you have to show ID when getting on a plane? If you don't like the policy you can do as Mr. Gilmore has.....stop traveling. Although I agree that if an airline is going to say "it's the law" they better have the law posted or change their standard answer to "it is our policy"....just my opinion.

[stainlessbanner]

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