Is TSA planning new ID rules for operators & passengers of small planes & boats?

"Vaughn Simon" wrote:

When Bush first floated the idea of a "Department of Homeland Security",
just the name sounded Gestapo-ish enough to give me serious reservations.
Now this?



"There ought to be limits to freedom."
- George W. Bush, May, 1999

"Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message
oups.com... wrote:
Not trying to defend these individuals, but if someone wants to buy a
prepaid phone and a prepaid plan, I don't see why you need to show any
id.

Of course, we don't know if they were trying to buy prepaid phones. Prepaid
phones excepted, cellphones are seldom sold "free and clear", they are usually
discounted when you sign a contract to buy cell service for a minimum number of
months. If you run off with the phone, the carrier loses.

Around here, you can buy prepaid phones at the drugstore or supermarket and
nobody cares who you are.

Vaughn

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:35:23 -0700, Andrew Sarangan
wrote in
.com:


Not trying to defend these individuals, but if someone wants to buy a
prepaid phone and a prepaid plan, I don't see why you need to show any
id.

How is the CIA supposed to know who they are eavesdropping on if ID
isn't required to purchase the phone? :-)

In article .com,
Andrew Sarangan wrote:

Not trying to defend these individuals, but if someone wants to buy a
prepaid phone and a prepaid plan, I don't see why you need to show any
id.

This was not for prepaid plan and phone.
This was for a phone and monthly service plan.
After relating this story to me, I laughed and mentioned that I thought
they usually bought prepaid cards for exactly the reason that they do
not have identification.

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...

"There ought to be limits to freedom."
- George W. Bush, May, 1999

He's right. The limits to any person's freedom should be the freedoms of
other persons and nothing more.

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Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...

"There ought to be limits to freedom."
- George W. Bush, May, 1999

He's right. The limits to any person's freedom should be the freedoms of
other persons and nothing more.

One of our founding fathers would vehemently disagree:

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little
Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, A Historical Review of the Constitution
and Government of Pennsylvania, 1759

Our 'elected' (?!!?) leader of this country has basically
turned this country into a place where our founding fathers would
probably have taken the latter of Patrick Henry's options.

BL.
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writes:

Makes you want to move to a free country, doesn't it? There has to be
someplace in the world that is still truly free, it sure isn't here
anymore!

Developing democracies often have a high level of freedom, if they don't
suffer from too much corruption. As democracies evolve, they trade freedom
for a false sense of security, until they cease to be democracies any more.

Bravo Two Zero writes:

It also assumes that all terrorists are on the watch list.

That's easy to ensu just put _everyone_ on the watch list.

Mxsmanic wrote in
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writes:

Makes you want to move to a free country, doesn't it? There has to
be someplace in the world that is still truly free, it sure isn't
here anymore!

Developing democracies often have a high level of freedom, if they
don't suffer from too much corruption. As democracies evolve, they
trade freedom for a false sense of security, until they cease to be
democracies any more.




Bwawhahwhahwhahhwhahwhahwhahwhahwhahwhahwh!


Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Bravo Two Zero writes:

It also assumes that all terrorists are on the watch list.

That's easy to ensu just put _everyone_ on the watch list.


OK, terrorist boi##

Bertei