TSA is starting that RealID stuff again...
Oct 3, 2019, 3:15 am
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Everyone would be better off if the TSA stopped with its passenger ID checks and its REAL ID junk. Everyone would be better off if the TSA instead focused on looking for prohibited weapons, explosives and incendiaries rather than looking at passenger ID, whether its "proper ID" or not.
Oct 3, 2019, 5:45 am
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Why? What does ID accomplish that a proper screening does not. Freedom of movement (travel) is a protected right. Being required to present government sanctioned ID in order to travel flies in the face of the right to travel. Those states who have pushed back against Real ID understand this problem.
Oct 3, 2019, 8:58 am
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Everyone would be better off if the TSA stopped with its passenger ID checks and its REAL ID junk. Everyone would be better off if the TSA instead focused on looking for prohibited weapons, explosives and incendiaries rather than looking at passenger ID, whether its "proper ID" or not.
Oct 4, 2019, 4:03 am
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Absolutely no one has said anything even remotely like this.
ID requirements are not and never have been a security measure. They do nothing to add to security, but they do require money, time, resources, and attention from genuine security measures like screening and situational awareness.
We still need locks on doors, background vetting for airport workers, and WEI screening for air travelers. But those things provide genuine security benefits, while ID requirements for travelers do absolutely nothing to increase security.
If you disagree, please state your reasoning. Tell us why you think ID requirements are needed and what security benefit they provide.
ID requirements are not and never have been a security measure. They do nothing to add to security, but they do require money, time, resources, and attention from genuine security measures like screening and situational awareness.
We still need locks on doors, background vetting for airport workers, and WEI screening for air travelers. But those things provide genuine security benefits, while ID requirements for travelers do absolutely nothing to increase security.
If you disagree, please state your reasoning. Tell us why you think ID requirements are needed and what security benefit they provide.
Oct 4, 2019, 4:45 am
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Oct 4, 2019, 1:52 pm
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ID requirements are not and never have been a security measure
IDs are a security measurement ,
You need to qualify to have the ID,,it also protects against intruders,
Where I live you need a code to get in the gate, a code to get in the door, same as the work area,
Oct 4, 2019, 2:01 pm
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Absolutely no one has said anything even remotely like this.
ID requirements are not and never have been a security measure
IDs are a security measurement ,
You need to qualify to have the ID,,it also protects against intruders,
Where I live you need a code to get in the gate, a code to get in the door, same as the work area,
How did that help keep people at the concert safer?
Oct 4, 2019, 2:07 pm
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Absolutely no one has said anything even remotely like this.
ID requirements are not and never have been a security measure
IDs are a security measurement ,
You need to qualify to have the ID,,it also protects against intruders,
Where I live you need a code to get in the gate, a code to get in the door, same as the work area,
How does ID, for the purpose of TSA, make anyone safer if everyone is properly screened?
Oct 4, 2019, 2:23 pm
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How does ID, for the purpose of TSA, make anyone safer if everyone is properly screened.
I would start by properly ID ing the TSA Agent, but then even their IDs could be photo copies, many of them may have submitted, false info when employed
Another paper trip,
I would start by properly ID ing the TSA Agent, but then even their IDs could be photo copies, many of them may have submitted, false info when employed
Another paper trip,