No more flying without identification!

[thewayne]

After 9/11, if you were going to fly and didn't have ID or didn't want to present it, you could submit to a more detailed search and you would still be allowed to fly. Or at least you could do that at airports where the TSA people actually knew the rules rather than made them up on the spot. Well, that's now a thing of the past. Now if you don't have identification, you don't fly. Apparently it's part of a new program to try to profile dangerous people rather than dangerous items, because, after all, terrorists would have such difficulty getting identification.

Don't you feel safer already? I know I do. [/sarcasm]

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/tsa-nixes-flyin.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-9962760-46.html?tag=nefd.top

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/10/0057202

Comments

[silveradept]

Indeed. I feel that much safer knowing that I cannot, for any reason, deny that the name on my identification card is who I am. Or try to fly without showing said identification. I wonder what might happen if/when semi-famous people try to fly and are forced to let someone confirm they are someone semi-famous.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Penn Gillettte, of Penn & Teller, has sued TSA over singling out famous people because they are famous. He says that they routinely get harassed because they are more visible and it gives TSA minimum-wage goons power.

So in a word, it'll happen. No word on TSA verifying that your ID is genuine.

[silveradept]

I see. So we know that there will be incidents. And won't it be fun for people who have the same name as someone on the no-fly list to get all the extra-special treatment at every point along the way?