 Tired of being screwed with. |
SEATTLE — In November 2009, Phil Mocek was scheduled to board a Seattle-bound plane in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Instead, he wound up in a jail cell, headed for a fight that could prove historic.
The Seattle man refused to show TSA officers his ID with his boarding pass, and argued he has a right not to show it.
There is no law requiring that passengers show their ID at checkpoints; however, passengers who refuse to show their ID are subject to additional security screenings. After he refused many times to show his ID, officers asked him to leave. But instead of leaving, Mocek began taking photos and video of TSA officers against their warnings.
“I do not believe that there is a rule that bars me from using a camera in publicly acceptable areas at the airport,” he is heard saying a video clip he shot at the airport on that day. Mocek was placed under arrest and charged with four misdemeanors, including concealing his identity. Some say this is the first time anyone has brought a legal challenge to the TSA’s authority to question and detain travelers.
Kudos to this gentleman.
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#6 – yes and if had the sense at the time to stamp down on those subversives when we had the chance you people wouldn’t go around spelling English words wrong.
I’m with Dallas. Obama is not to blame for anything at all. The entire mess it Bush and Cheney’s fault (even the stuff that they didn’t do or cause).
QUit picking on Obama. He’s been real busy, you know?
Though I hesitate to call him a Nazi (I’d also hesitate to be on a hunting party with him too,) Dick Cheney is such a Fascist and Corporatist that he could be called Benito Heavy (he’s clearly the successful sequel to a wop prick with a great jawbone, who got whacked and hung up on a hook at an Esso gas station,) though that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Obama’s role in the succession is to relieve the “Powers That Be“™© of the responsibility for health care.
No longer will [name of corporate boss here] be embarrassed by having to walk over the disgusting, diseased body of some unemployed schmuck.
As the United States joins the rest of the world in having decimated the ranks of the employed, i.e. the middle class, down to sustainable levels* we’re going to stop kidding ourselves and join them in having general health care.
The rich are not cruel. They’re not uncaring, unfeeling pragmatists; (unlike lawyers and accountants,) they think that sentimentality is a middle class value that they can’t personally afford.
Like wise they can’t afford to have 35 million uninsured, pissed off, sick but not dead people running around because some of them will be:
a) not so disabled that they can’t protest
b) not so sick that they can’t aim
c) own one of the millions firearms in the country
d) pissed off enough to start shooting**
*Did you think job growth has always going to increase? Why?
**Worse would be if they were former employees of the corporations.***
***Worst would be if they were former employees of the rich**** because they’d know who to shoot to do the most damage. (Not the rich but some of their corporate minions.)
****There’s maybe a thousand families world wide that matter. The rest are minions and cannon fodder.
#1 the requirement to show ID started with the Clinton Administration. Right after the TWA 800 plane crash, for which the official story is a mechanical flaw that caused a fuel tank explosion.
He has nothing to loose, but his freedom.
#13 – “and the airlines SHOULD own the damned airports…”
IMHO the airlines have too much say over the airports as it is. The local airport is one of Northwest’s (now Delta) main hubs. They insist on the best gates and have done everything in their power to prevent other airlines from getting a good foothold here, other than offer better/cheaper service. Instead they twist the arm of the airport commission.
The requirement to show ID is for the airlines benefit–it prevents your friends/relatives/employees from flying on your frequent flyer number to rack up the miles.
The rest is bullshit–anyone who can make a bomb can fake an ID.
Wait.wait.wait, are we war with Oceania, Eurasia or Eastasia?
Looking at the guys picture above, he looks like a guy looking for a fight to justify a shooting spree…
#20 That’s not the only thing #15 needs help with. The list is long. We all should pity him.
#28 – we can’t tell you who we are at war with – it’s a matter of national security.
Although you can find out on wikileaks
#1 Good.
#4 I agree that Mocek is probably an asshole, but that is not an important consideration. He seems to be pointing to legislative laziness rather than large questions of what the state can/can’t or should/shouldn’t do.
If his argument is that regulatory law isn’t valid unless it is specifically implemented via legislation then HE WOULD BE WRONG. It works the other way.
#6 “INDIVIDUAL has rights endowed by the Creator…can film in public to his/her hart content… Versus BS Wikileaks who are insult to citizens like this who really protect our freedoms”
Can you show me a “thou shall film when thou desires in public places” commandment? Can you show me an oppositional relationsihp between this guy and wikileaks?
#7 and #14
I want to exend your argument a bit. Forget “Homeland Security” and go back to “National Security.” This expansive idea surfaced after WWII as pushback to military demobilization. Proponents intentionally overestimated the hostility and effectivness of the Soviets to protect their budgets.
Eisenhower was referring to this movement in his famous “Military-Industrial Complex” speech. An intense security focus was not only very expensive, it was also corrupting to instiutions and international relations. The world became much more dangerous because a lot of self-interested people made sloppy judgments.
Following your argument, I’d say every President from Ike until Reagan was ignoring the national interest by buying into an expensive and dangerous GAME. Something with real world consequences, but driven by a competition for budget and contract dollars.
As true as that is, it doesn’t capture the real world. Every time a politician goes after some crap program tons of nasty adds pop up paid for by the people who will be disadvantaged.
I blame Obama for not capitalizing on the opportunities that he had at the very beginning of his term. It would have been playing against his nature, but personal comfort level is an overrated thing. I also think he is willing to sell out to the dirtiest of the dirty to get an item on the resume.
You’re going way past that, and blaming him for the general state of the world. That’s grossly unfair.
Bush/Cheney did a lot of dirt. Don’t tell me you missed that. Credit and blame where they are due.
I am so glad I gave up flying. The money I’ll save by not taking 5-6 trips a year will go right into my 401K so when I retire I should be able to afford a cup of coffee now and again.
Good for him, it’s about time someone stood up. Sadly, the administration will step in just like they did under Bush and get it tossed out under state secrets or some other such clause.
Could we take up a collection to kick Pedro in the nuts?
Bobbo, as usual, is desperately trying to be a troll wannabe. Good luck with that.
My prediction is that this poor soul will die in a freak avalanche in Snoqualmie Pass shortly before the trial. Friends will question how he drove his car there without keys in the ignition.
#22. Thank you! Tell the rest of the herd.
#35. You mean kick in the nutt?
#29, that was my reaction. Then I realized, I’ve seen the guy before with a different name. His last name was xxx Bruce, and after Braveheart came out he started going by ‘xxx the Bruce’
He was acquitted.