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RIGHT TO TRAVEL-NOW TO BE CONTROLLED
-Government Permission Will Now Be Required to Travel-
*'Sweeps' NOTE..'I do believe this WILL ignite a CIVIL WAR' finally in America':
…This would be only the START of an 'Internal Passport' issuing system, whereby all citizens would be required to carry such a document and show it to authorities on demand, when crossing State lines, maybe County Lines, or even leaving a City or, going to and from any destination. The whole concept of 'limiting/controlling THE RIGHT TO TRAVEL/MOVE FREELY…is tantamount to Permanent 'Marshall Law'. It's not just a movement towards Fascism…it is Fascism. Lock and load folks & keep your arms/ammunition 'at the ready'/'S'
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Starting this year, Americans will have to get government approval to
travel by air. As Privacy Journal revealed last fall, henceforth 'Permission
Now Needed to Travel Within U.S'. Getting a reservation and checking-in for
air travel will soon require Transportation Security Administration
authorization.
That permission is by no means assured: For example, if your name
matches a 'no-fly' list, even mistakenly, you can be denied the right to a
reserve a seat on a flight. If your name is on a "selectee" list, you and
your possessions will be searched more thoroughly before you can board.
What is going on here?
All travelers will need government OK in order to board a flight, or take
a cruise. What the government can allow one day, it can forbid the next.
Protecting air safety is essential, but professional screening at airports
already provides for it. Giving the TSA as an official agency the additional
authority to decide who gets to go where reaches beyond safety into overextended governmental power.
This newly minted 'Secure Flight' rule fundamentally imbalances long-standing citizens' rights both to travel and to be left alone.
If your name appears among hundreds of thousands on 'watchlists', you assert that the government should not require ID to fly, you don't want to reveal your
date of birth for concern about identity theft, or you don't choose to declare your gender, you can stay home.
By combining the requirement for government photo IDs in order to fly with
checking government watchlists including potentially every passenger,
'Secure Flight' puts the federal government into the business of licensing
travel.
All travelers will need government OK in order to board a flight, or
take a cruise. What the government can allow one day, it can forbid the
next. All things considered, isn't this a higher-tech and later-day version of
South African domestic passports or eastern European checkpoints? In
fact, because of the high technological capacity of the U.S. version, aren't
its implications for travel control of plane, train, bus and subway travel
much more far reaching? It's incredible that something like this is
happening relatively unrecognized in America.
While some people consider the requirement to show ID or reveal a birth
date a small trade-off for security, what is at stake here is the right to
travel. That fundamental freedom of movement appears in the Articles of
Confederation in the right to freely enter and leave all the states of the then
small union.
It was so fundamentally a part of American citizenship that the privileges and
immunities clauses of the Constitution included it without explicitly mentioning it again for the more perfect union. With a large and expansive nation now ranging from Hawaii and Alaska to Washington DC, that right to travel nationally, and petition the distant government, is even more fundamental.
Yet some courts maintain that if you can walk, you don't need the right to fly.
People have the right to walk around freely without carrying a national ID…SO
why do they have to show one to travel?
The Supreme Court has yet to rule on the scope of the right to travel but lower
courts have tended to restrict it more narrowly than the Founding Fathers
would approve.
Clearly, the air ID and 'Secure Flight' rules mean you cannot travel any
distance reachable only by air without official permission. Moreover…the
system can easily be extended to Amtrak as a government railroad, which
already requires government ID in order to purchase a ticket. It can further be
extended to urban rapid-transit networks tied to travel cards, and private
inter-city buses requiring IDs to buy tickets or board coaches. These are
the bases for an internal passport system in the U.S.
There are a lot of practical issues here too. The assumption that any
'no-fly' list includes all potential wrong doers is implausible, and first time
criminals would by definition not appear until it's too late. Many people
on these lists are there because their names are similar to those who are
suspect for other reasons. There are perhaps a few hundred people whose
past activities merit keeping them off the streets, let alone flights…the
small group is better caught through search warrants and good police work
before they come to the airport.
To demand that 750 million annual passengers have to get government permissions to fly creates a needle in-a-haystack approach to locating a few
potential wrongdoers…none so far have been caught by the matching.
'Secure Flight' is simply an ineffective use of scarce resources that sweeps much too broadly over people's most basic rights to travel and be let alone.
What can you do? Like other regulations quickly promulgated at the end of
an outgoing administration, these rules need to be delayed…& reconstituted.
Contact your Senators, Representatives and the White House to suspend such
ill-considered regulations now. Insist that the government create a system
that makes flying safe without granting federal officials the final say over
permission for citizens to travel. Otherwise, the traveling public may be detoured
onto a perilous downhill road to being permanently grounded.
