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Court says ID checks at airports constitutional
By Reuters
Published: January 26, 2006, 10:30 PM PST
Airlines and the U.S government have the right to keep passengers from boarding planes if they refuse to show personal identification, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.
John Gilmore, an early Sun Microsystems employee and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online civil liberties group, sued after Southwest and United Airlines in 2002 both did not allow him on board their flights when he refused to show any ID.
http://papersplease.org/gilmore/index.html
In court filing, he argued that requiring identification from airline passengers was unconstitutional, but a three-judge panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed.
"We hold that neither the identification policy nor its application to Gilmore violated Gilmore's constitutional rights, and therefore we deny the petition," Judge Richard Paez wrote. "The Constitution does not guarantee the right to travel by any particular form of transportation."
"He was not threatened with arrest or some other form of punishment; rather he simply was told that unless he complied with the policy, he would not be permitted to board the plane. There was no penalty for noncompliance."
The United States has stepped up its scrutiny of identification cards at airports over the past decade, with additional checks added after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks when hijacked commercial jets flew into the World Trade Center.
http://news.com.com/Court+says+ID+checks+at+airports+constitutional/2100-7348_3-6031936.html
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"The Constitution does not guarantee the right to travel by any particular form of transportation." -- When the Constitution was written there were basically three forms of travel: on foot, via animals, and on boats. One would think that a modern court would understand this and interpret the Constitution in terms of the current world. Well, they aren't stupid, so apparently what they've really said in their judgement is that they support facism. You no longer have the right to walk outside to check your mailbox unless you carry an ID. Papers please.
By Reuters
Published: January 26, 2006, 10:30 PM PST
Airlines and the U.S government have the right to keep passengers from boarding planes if they refuse to show personal identification, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.
John Gilmore, an early Sun Microsystems employee and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online civil liberties group, sued after Southwest and United Airlines in 2002 both did not allow him on board their flights when he refused to show any ID.
http://papersplease.org/gilmore/index.html
In court filing, he argued that requiring identification from airline passengers was unconstitutional, but a three-judge panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed.
"We hold that neither the identification policy nor its application to Gilmore violated Gilmore's constitutional rights, and therefore we deny the petition," Judge Richard Paez wrote. "The Constitution does not guarantee the right to travel by any particular form of transportation."
"He was not threatened with arrest or some other form of punishment; rather he simply was told that unless he complied with the policy, he would not be permitted to board the plane. There was no penalty for noncompliance."
The United States has stepped up its scrutiny of identification cards at airports over the past decade, with additional checks added after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks when hijacked commercial jets flew into the World Trade Center.
http://news.com.com/Court+says+ID+checks+at+airports+constitutional/2100-7348_3-6031936.html
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"The Constitution does not guarantee the right to travel by any particular form of transportation." -- When the Constitution was written there were basically three forms of travel: on foot, via animals, and on boats. One would think that a modern court would understand this and interpret the Constitution in terms of the current world. Well, they aren't stupid, so apparently what they've really said in their judgement is that they support facism. You no longer have the right to walk outside to check your mailbox unless you carry an ID. Papers please.