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To: Janice Shell who wrote (2107)1/17/2005 8:07:29 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (1) of 5425
 
And far as I know, no charges have been brought in connection with his little escapade at the airport.

And what charges could be brought? There is no evidence of identity theft, so what law was broken? According to this lawsuit filed by the EFF, no law applies:

Q. Why are you challenging the ID requirement?

People in the US have a right to travel and associate without being monitored or stopped by their government, unless they are actually suspected or convicted of a crime, and unless that suspicion is reasonable.

Clearly it is not reasonable to suspect every American of being a criminal bent on hijacking an airplane. There is no evidence against the vast majority of Americans, and a multitude of evidence that most people harbor no desire or intent to hijack airplanes. Yet they are being identified, tracked, and searched nevertheless. This policy violates decades and centuries of court decisions about the rights of innocent Americans. The mere demand for an ID is a search, which the Fourth Amendment protects us from.

Also, the ID requirement is not part of any law passed by Congress, or any regulation published by the Executive Branch. Yet somehow it is being imposed on every traveler. The USSR was full of "secret" laws and directives, which abrogated the fundamental rights that had been written in the published laws and constitution. I believe that a law which the government is unwilling to publish cannot be enforced, and there are many lawyers who agree with me.

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- Jeff
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