Thursday, May 28, 2009

The "No Fly List" Loophole

Sweeten used a co-worker's driver's license and presented it as her own when she bought an airline ticket and flew to Orlando, Fla. on Tuesday, Henry said, adding Sweeten also used the license to check into the Grand Floridian Hotel at Disney World. [More]
TSA. What a joke.

Hey, maybe they ought to do something like this with guns...

[Via Andre]

2 comments:

Rova said...

This is why biometric, enhanced DL's (at a minimum) are going to make the public safer! if your e-DL doesn't match the scanned, embedded RFID, then the mantrap closes. And shatterproof liquid crystal cored panels opaque. . .

(shudder)

Land of the free, home of the brave. . . once apon a time.

Defender said...

I've never believed TSA was there to protect anyone, just to condition the most people in the shortest time that "security" overrides rights. Just like the Border Patrol agent said: "At a checkpoint, rights don't matter." And then they put checkpoints EVERYWHERE.
I'm glad states are fighting the enhanced driver's license/national ID. Of course adopting it will be a condition of getting federal highway funds and then other "aid."
Send less money to Washington to begin with, you don't have to beg for it back.
No doubt this woman will be a poster child for The Chip.
Hey, our predecessors' other warnings have mostly proved to be accurate.