The purpose of the law is to give state officials another charge to add
to a complaint. While a pilot may have other charges dismissed, the
state would still have the perjury charge to hold and try. This is the
legal system we now have. Instead of providing evidence in a case using
existing laws, the government will add frivolous charges to try a weak case.

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:55:15 -0800, C J Campbell
wrote in
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Definitely one of the most inane laws ever passed. But the purpose of
this law is not to fight terrorism. It is to embarrass Democrats. The
outgoing party knew full well that this law would probably be repealed, so
now they can say during the next election that the Democrats repealed an
'anti-terrorism' measure, without saying exactly what that measure was.

Perhaps.

But why isn't the law designed to cause aircraft owners to perjure
themselves by failing to declare there affiliation with listed
terrorist organizations, so that they can be prosecuted? I doubt that
the Constitution would permit prosecuting people for merely being
members of the listed terrorist organizations alone.