This was about a month ago at the international terminal.
3-striper was older gentleman.

the NameGame continues... SNA yesterday morning.

TSO: state your name
me: it's right there on 2 documents in your hand, can't you read ?
TSO: I need you to tell me your name
me: nickname stated (the shortened informal version or my first name only)
TSO: (states my full first and middle name)
me: that sounds familiar
me: I'm enjoying playing security theater with you, but how is this remotely relevant to aviation security ?
TSO next to my TSO: they make us ask it
my TSO: yeah, they make us say it
me: that's a cute story, but it doesn't answer my question.
TSO: have a nice flight.

So, you can board a plane without stating your name....

Tell that to any one of numerous Americans who has been victims of the no-fly-list and gotten the runaround from DHS/TSA.

The ability to "seek redress" is irrelevant if the request merely disappears into a black hole of bureaucracy. Only if there is the ability to escalate the redress to an open court room with real due process protections does redress matter.

These innocent victims range from people who have been merely delayed to those who have missed flights/meetings to those who have been delayed and harassed by law enforcement to those who have attempted to seek redress and been lied to and misled to those who have actually sued, yet at every step the government attempts to block the suits on trumped up national security grounds.

Just recently a native-born US citizen was forced to *walk* back into the US from Mexico because of the no-fly-list. ( http://www.theblaze.com/stories/told...r-u-s-on-foot/ ) The government, of course, declines to comment on the case.

How's that work? Do tell.

Not all TSA employees drink the Koolaid apparently ^ .

Denied boading of course. That's the brilliance of our system.

If you believe that being asked to show ID at an airport is oppressive, then how about at a traffic stop? You could be pulled over for something completely trivial or even imaginary, or you could be in an accident where you weren't at fault, and you need to show ID and it will be recorded in a database. Does this practice also increase the risk of genocide down the road?

What do drones have to do with showing ID?

If the TSA stopped asking for ID at a checkpoint, would that hurt the government's ability to deploy drones?

The Thread's about pronouncing your name, not showing ID.

In that case, you're not showing "ID", but fulfulling the original purpose of the license, namely granting permission to drive a vehicle on public roads. It's long been the practice of government that they have a right to ask somebody to prove they have the appropriate license whether flying a plane, driving, piloting a boat, hunting, or fishing.

The problem is when a license to drive a car is being used outside that narrow purpose, as a more general "ID".

The OP was about using a fake name, and in my opinion, provoking the TSA.

Try again, but it must be noted that repeated failure is the way of Team TSA and its fans.

I've actually used this, and it worked. The document checker was a little incredulous, "Asking your name is an incriminating question?!?" but his supervisor seemed to think it wasn't worth hassling me over.

Yes, using a fake name instead of refusing to play the game is an strange choice. But then again, forcing people to show ID to travel internally within the country is an odd choice, and forcing people to 'pronounce' their name in order to travel is utterly bizarre. And by "odd" and "bizarre", I mean characteristic of totalitarian governments, and most likely, unconstitutional.

AFAIK, the only time the "requiring ID to travel" was challenged (in Gilmore v. Gonzales), the Supreme Court affirmed the requirement to show ID only because there was an alternative in place, the option to undergo secondary screening in lieu of showing ID. According to the TSA, that is no longer an option, so I think is is about time for someone to re-challenge the ID requirement.

Since there is no requirement to pronounce one's name as the letters spell out phonetically in English there is no such thing as a "fake name."

Watch any European football match and listen to a different number of English speaking commentators trying to pronounce Eastern European names and you will hear at least three different ways of saying their names, especially the longer ones.