Originally Posted by
HSVTSO Dean
The only time you're "barred from flying" (though really it's more like being barred from entering into the checkpoint, which amounts to the same thing) is when you willfully refuse to show your identification credentials, AND are uncooperative with the identification verification process.
...For the Nth time.
Thanks, Dean. If your associates would simply publish the rules you require us to follow so we can read them, there'd be no need for you to attempt to explain those rules through back-channel communication N times.
Also, I'm curious what "uncooperative with the identification verification process" means. Am I required to explain where my money came from, for instance? To provide personal details about my finances? To rub shoulders and shine shoes? To answer any personal questions about anything besides my name?
Dean has heard this a thousand times, but for anyone who's reading and new to all this,
TSA's airport identification procedures serve exactly three purposes: - airline revenue protection (I can't resell or gift a ticket I purchased, so the airline can sell my seat a second time)
- restriction of people's freedom of movement using government blacklists
- making misinformed people feel safer about air travel
For a great summary of why checking ID is not only ineffective, but dangerous to our freedom, please see The Identity Project's
"What's wrong with showing ID?" page.