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Although it's not specifically stated as a right in the US
Constitution, the right to travel freely in your own country (without "papers"), is generally believed to be a fundamental right. The right to travel freely is also a benchmark for a measure of freedom in all countries. Both Nazi Germany and the Communist system required "papers" to travel from one city to the next. I dread the day when I land at the airport, and a uniformed officer comes up to me and says, "papers please". It will be a major loss of a fundamental right. Now, things ARE different in war. But we can't have "continual" war, as the "war on terrorism" or the "cold war". I can accept temporary restrictions during a crisis (gasoline rationing in WWII, sugar rationing, restricted travel, blackout curtains along the east coast etc), but not permanent or semi-permanent ones. If we are in a cold war, sorry, we HAVE to go back to having our fundamental rights and take some risk of a terrorist attack, which, by the way, there is no way of preventing with complete certainty. There has been one terroist attack on the US. And it was terrible. 4000 people lost there lives. But there are over 60,000 deaths due to car accidents a year. Just how much freedom are you willing to give up? The "homeland sucurity" advocates make the argument, "but yes, we could have a nuclear attack, wouldn't you give up your freedom to travel for preventing such attack?" BUT their security measures don't make such a guarantee. With the draconian travel restrictions we give up our freedom to travel and STILL are under a threat of attack. There are things they can do. Baggage matching, baggage scanning, linking visa data with Social Security data etc, to keep tabs on visitors to our country. Most of these actions limit our freedom to travel very little. So do those things. But don't start asking me for "papers please". We can't go there. |
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While not enumerated in the Constitution, travel is a civil right
according to the Supreme Court. The applicable decision involved a black Army officer who was murdered while traveling through a Southern state and established freedom to travel as a constitutionally protected right. Dave Reinhart Doug wrote: Although it's not specifically stated as a right in the US Constitution, the right to travel freely in your own country (without "papers"), is generally believed to be a fundamental right. The right to travel freely is also a benchmark for a measure of freedom in all countries. Both Nazi Germany and the Communist system required "papers" to travel from one city to the next. I dread the day when I land at the airport, and a uniformed officer comes up to me and says, "papers please". It will be a major loss of a fundamental right. |
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