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Thursday, September 23, 2004

Laws We Aren't Allowed To See

This administration is now making actual laws that we aren't allowed to see. Oh, we can be charged under them or have them effect affect us, but we can't actually read the law.Behind the Homefront: "JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WON'T ACKNOWLEDGE WHETHER THERE'S ACTUALLY A LAW REGARDING PASSENGER IDENTIFICATION. The Justice Department won't acknowledge whether federal rules demanding airline passengers show identification before flying even exist, according to court documents filed with a federal appeals court Monday. The Bush administration told the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that air-travel security initiatives are a matter of national security and therefore should not be available for public inspection. "

ContraCostaTimes: James Harrison, Gilmore's attorney, said the case was about "the ability to travel freely within the United States without having to show your identification at every turn."
He added that laws "are being applied, yet when the citizen asks to see the law that is being applied, he's met with, 'Sorry that's classified.'"

1 Comments:

Blogger the girl said...

This I find highly weird. I mean someone must know. For example, some people somewhere in the airline industry must know whether or not viewing passenger identification is company policy or compliance with a law. Of course if this level of knowledge is held at the CEO/CIO level, then we're not going to see somebody blogging the answer to us.

And I was worried enough about the Patriot Act...

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