Boarding aircraft with phony identification is a snap.
 

Boarding aircraft with phony identification is a snap.

The No Fly list may work somewhat when passports are involved for international travel. However anyone can go to the Los Angeles barrio and buy a California Driver’s License and Social Security card. Of course you can have your ID maker put whatever name you wish on the cards. The cops in California can wade though these phony cards when they don’t match up with the state database. Of course if an identity is stolen and the information matches the state’s data even the cops can be fooled.

Tell me how the low wattage airport folks hired to look at driver’s licenses from 50 states without access to the actual license databases can possibly avoid being hoodwinked at these checkpoints? If these people were alert and well trained they could aid in profiling passengers for law enforcement. But that’s just not politically correct.

The facade of airline security works on the principal that people will feel more secure the more the untrained, unarmed and useless security people needlessly jack them around.

My ability to spot a fake ID is as good as any law enforcement officer's and I can tell you that the chance of most TSA drones knowing the difference between a real ID and a fake is practically zero.

ID is not security. People should not have to show ID to avoid haraSSSSment when traveling domestically.

Who cares about passengers' fake or real ID at airports? I don't, for ID is not security. Checking me for contraband has nothing to do with my ID. Instead of straining their eyes trying to read ID, the government should be doing lots of other things that actually do provide security far more effectively at airports.

ID checking at airports is part of the dog and pony show; too bad so many "feel" safer because of this nonsense.