Posted on 05/22/2005 7:30:03 AM PDT by Dada Orwell
From NHfree.com Man Without I.D. Vows to Board Flight or be Jailed
Manchester, NH May 21, 2005
Inspired by New Hampshire's "outlaw manicurist," another Granite Stater is stepping forward to peacefully defy license-related laws. Thirty-five-year old Russell Kanning of Keene has announced he will approach a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at Manchester airport on June 11 and refuse to cooperate with the requirement to show ID. "I will either board the plane without I.D. or be arrested," he says. "In a free country you do not need government permission to travel."
Kanning has a ticket to Philadelphia and, if allowed to travel there, plans to celebrate by visiting Independence Hall.
Two months after the September 11th attacks, the Aviation Security Act federalized airport security nationwide and granted new police powers to the TSA. Now, an ID is mandatory to travel by commercial aircraft, passengers must travel alone past security checkpoints, and random full-body searches in public are considered normal.
Kanning stresses that he will not resist arrest or do anything that might be perceived as physically threatening. He says this act of nonviolent resistance will follow the model laid down by Gandhi, who used peaceful noncooperation to expel the British from India. "We will tell them everything we're going to do ahead of time. We are not going to disrupt the operation of the airport," he says.
Kanning says the parallels with Gandhi's situation go further than a shared belief in nonviolence. "In South Africa (where Gandhi's protests began), Indians had to have special I.D...so it's very similar that way, and he wanted to burn it...He was appealing to that same basic idea that we have rights to not have to have paperwork to be able to move freely."
Earlier this month another Gandhi admirer, Mike Fisher of Newmarket, used the Mahatma's techniques to protest business licensing. After announcing he would perform an unlicensed manicure in front of the state licensing offices, he carried out his promise, earned a brief trip to jail and received heavy regional media coverage for his viewpoint.
Kanning says Gandhi's and Fisher's examples inspired him to take similar action against the growing "surveillance state." He believes the Real ID amendment passed by the Senate this month will make things even worse. But he says it's important to stay positive. "The goal is we want to get to the point where we can travel without having to have paperwork so, this is the beginning of that. We see light at the end of the tunnel. "
Currently the plan is for Kanning to approach the security checkpoint at 12:30 PM. Journalists and supporters will want to be there by noon.
Summary:
What: Civil disobedience against ID requirements under federalized airport security. Where: Manchester Airport in New Hampshire (exact spot to be determined) When: Saturday, June 11 @ noon Who: Russell Kanning of Keene, NH, supporters from NHfree.com Why: To draw attention to the recent and continuing loss of privacy and freedom due to federalized airport security and National ID. How: By approaching a TSA checkpoint with a ticket but no ID, refusing to show ID, and refusing to cooperate with the law until arrested or allowed to board the plane. Contacts: You can find out more and post questions to the discussion boards at NHfree.com
Sounds like you have some boot tracks on your colon.
Why strange?
If you look at the end of the Soviet Empire, everyone who wasn't on the government gravy train, and many who were, were either actively monkeywrenching the system, or looking the other way when it happened.
That is the likely outcome in the U.S.: Not a shooting war, but an erosion of the ability of the state to keep competent people enforcing intrusive laws and regulations.
IRS employees already inbreed because humans won't touch them. Cops have a distinct culture of casual fraud, drinking, divorce and suicide. Just give a JBT a shove on his way down, and pretty soon, they will have to lower standards to the point that FLEAs will be neutered by ineffictiveness.
GODDAMNIT! WHY!!! First the masshole commuters and now this.
NHAntiMass wrote:
"GODDAMNIT! WHY!!! First the masshole commuters and now this."
To hate massholes is to love Free Staters. It will hit you after you've met a few of us. Give it time.
Bullshit. We aren't the dumb hicks you've taken us for. That's the trait you people share with them. Words to that effect were stated on the original statement of intent on your webpage (which has conveniently been removed) before NH was selected.
Hell, your president is a masshole. The chick with ANARCH or whatever on her license plate? And what the hell was that in Grafton last year with the Filipina mail-order bride pimp?
You're doing more harm to the Libertarians than good by doing this. Just go away, or at the very least stop making fools of yourselves. We've suffered enough by seeing our once-beautiful state get turned into a commuter toilet. Now we have to be the poster child for lawless activism, too?
Maybe, but maybe not as well. Think about that one. Not all of us are "passive" and "simple".
It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished; ...
In the modern United States, how are citizens of any color treated? As citizens, or as property?
Kanning went on to say, "I will not show the TSA official my identification. Instead, I'm going to show him this huge chip on my shoulder."
Preach it, brother.....Preach it!
I still object to the government-imposed requirement that tells me that I have to pass through a metal detector if I want to fly on a commercial airplane. I still long for those halcyon days (pre-1972, IIRC) when anyone could wander into an airport waiting area without having to pass through a metal detector.
And, though I am way too youpng to remember it, I think there were days before the Government enslaved all of us by requiring us to wear seat belts during take-off and landings of commercial aircraft. Oh, how I long for those days!
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