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2003-07-21
British Airways threatens free speech, promotes guilt by association
John Gilmore, who refuses to show any ID in order to fly domestically (and therefore doesn't fly domestically), reports on what happened to him and his sweetheart when they tried [unsuccessfully] to fly British Airways from San Francisco to London.
I would be hard pressed to come up with a security measure more useless and intrusive than turning a plane around because of a political button on someone's lapel. I hope you're as appalled as I am.
Because he believes requiring an ID amounts to requiring an internal passport, he has take action against a couple of airlines and parts of the Federal government.
John Gilmore filed a lawsuit on July 18, 2002 against United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, the heads of the Federal Aviation Administration, the new Transportation Security Administration, FBI, the new Homeland Security agency and also the Attorney General. He does so "because he believes persons have a right to travel by air without the government requiring that they relinquish their anonymity." You can follow his lawsuit by following the links on this page, which is where this last quote came from.
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