Posted on 05/11/2025 6:15:37 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
They shouldn’t. In fact, they should do as cruise ships do and not let you board if your passport expires within six months.
“”””“All states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 territories are REAL ID compliant and issuing REAL ID compliant driver’s licenses and IDs.”
seems simple enough: most people have a driver’s license ... colorado driver licenses have been REAL ID compliant since 2012 ... just look for the star in the upper right hand corner of your driver’s license and you’re good to go ... should you even want to go .”””””
Florida started issuing REAL ID Drivers Licenses and ID Cards in 2010.
It was no big deal for me to get my REAL ID Drivers License in 2016 when the current license expired.
As of today 99+% of Floridians have a REAL ID and we experience no hassles at the airport.
So our experience with REAL ID is very much unlike the States that drug their feet to implement REAL ID until 2020.
Airlines do not control the airport. That authority goes to the city authority they operate.
Whatever it takes to keep the alligators away.
I can admit this now that the statute of limitations is long expired.
I checked a pistol per law and reg. Proper box et al.
Long forgotten on a different trip was a magazine for the pistol, fully loaded.
I unknowingly too that magazine through security probably 40 times without knowledge or incident, and discovered it long after, many different airports.
Tells me the security is just theater.
this contains a very nice list of WHEN states became compliant, so easy to see which states drug their feet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act
too freakin’ bad! It’s a legit ID.
TSA targets the wrong people.
A certain ethnicity absolutely relishes having the authority to be able to tell Whitey what they can and can not do....especially the females...never more prevalent than during covid.
Especially at the Atlanta Airport.
Will TSA accept a U.S. passport that has been expired less than a year? It’s still me.
In many cases, they don’t accept a passport that expires in less than six months.
“Yup, 2 of George the 2nd’s bad decisions, Dept of Homeland Security and TSA.”
Results of 9/11
Which George let happen on his watch.
“ If the perp is a US citizen, the entire family of the perp will be eliminated and all familial assets seized.”
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No can do.
Article 3, Section 3, second paragraph of the Constitution says:
“The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.”
It really shouldn’t be that hard. I am in Texas, and I just renewed my license. I have that gold star thing in the upper right hand corner, which indicates that it is compliant with “Real ID.” my old license, which just expired, but which I got seven years ago, also had the same symbol on it. Texas is not that special, and I am sure that every single state has such a system in place. If they have it with regard to drivers licenses, and they also doubtless have it for state issued ID cards that don’t permit you to drive.
That’s not to say that I am in favor of Homeland Security or TSA, or the way they have gone about enforcing the constitutionally-questionable laws and regulations under which they operate (that’s a whole other issue and I don’t have the time to get into it, nor is it directly on point), it is just to say that obtaining a Real ID should not be that difficult.
Amazing. They caught my pocket knife the very first time.
Abu Abbas PLO splinter group
Made me think of Abu Nidal
But not him nor the early Amal Hezbollah group
Kids today glorify Hezbollah against Goliath Israel with our gear and so on
They don’t know their history of viciousness
I had a weird experience at a US-Canada land crossing the other day. I had driven across the border to go to a trade show and conference. It was a short visit and on my return trip, I had almost nothing with me (of my own) other than ‘trade show swag’. However, while at the tradeshow, I offered to take some stuff back for a coworker… he had flown to the conference and if he got rid of a suitcase of clothes and shoes etc, he had nothing but carry on. I knew what was in his suitcase and offered to take it back for him and so he gave it to me to return.
Anyway, because I was bringing back stuff that did not belong to me, I went through the regular lanes… not the NEXUS lanes even though I carry a NEXUS card. The border agent asked me the usual questions and when asked what I had with me, I told him what I had of my own plus the suitcase belonging to a coworker that I had personally examined. He basically cleared me but just before driving away, he asked if I used that border crossing very often because he wanted to advise me that it did have dedicated NEXUS lanes that I could have used and save some time. I told him that since the rules clearly stated that as a NEXUS card carrier, I could not use those lanes when having something that was not my own personal possession. He kind of rolled his eyes and said “yeah but it was just clothes….” to which I reminded him that the NEXUS rules don’t give me that discretionary leniency. In the end, he said “yeah, you’re right… a rule is a rule and good for you for being vigilant about applying it even for a trivial thing.”
I have found in the past that border agents have an incredible amount of information about you by the time you’ve pulled up to the kiosk..... that applies to both ‘good and bad’ and I have no doubt that that this simple interaction was actually a test of a sort.
I've been using my INDEF retired military ID for the past six years when flying with zero issues.
Completely dissolve it.
Let NOTHING of it remain.
“””this contains a very nice list of WHEN states became compliant, so easy to see which states drug their feet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act“””
I was not surprised to see that Oregon and New Jersey were the worst of the worst foot draggers.
But what is up with Oklahoma? Why were they dragging their feet? Could it have been problems with the Indian Reservations?
My own understanding of this is that the airlines made it clear that if they were going to be responsible for screening their passengers, they would simply fold up shop now.
The sheer amount of lawsuits they would face after searching them only because they were (black, hispanic, female, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, American Indian, et cetera) would put them out of business in a second.
Just consider this a government subsidy for the airlines.
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