Posted on 05/27/2005 4:50:25 PM PDT by NHAntiMassRedRebel
"Inspired by New Hampshire's 'outlaw manicurist,' another Granite Stater is stepping forward -- literally -- to defy license-related laws. Russell Kanning of Keene has announced he will approach a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at Manchester airport on June 11 and refuse to cooperate with the requirement to show ID until he is arrested. 'In a free country,' he says, 'you do not need the government's permission to travel. My goal is to visit Independence Hall by flying to Philadelphia, but I will refuse to show identification. Before airport security was federalized in 2001, I was free to do this, but not anymore.'
The reason why he isn't free to do what he wants to do anymore are the poor souls who died on 9/11 and the Islamic Extremism that we are fighting now and that I spent all last year in Iraq getting shot at over.
I don't think these people truly realize that freedom does come with a price, and that our culture was dangerously innocent prior to 9/11. It was innocent to our peril.
I wish these people would just go away to another state. It's just embarrasing.
I don't think he'll be flying anywhere. He couldn't even get the ACLU to help him on this on I'd bet.
This is yet another reason why one should develop constructive hobbies.
The judge will tell this guy he's free to travel, but the Constitution doesn't guarantee the right to board a plane, any more than it does to drive a car without a license. This argument has been litigated to death.
I hope the judge makes an example of him. These people should get lives.
Don't know anything about the manicurist...she may have a point if she was defying some closed-shop job protection law.
But security on airlines is obviously different.
Lives are not at stake in manicure licensing.
First I'd like to say, Thank you for your service!
The nuts on the left will always do what ever stupid thing they can to try to cause trouble. It seems to have become their way of life.
Earlier article by one of the FreeStaters:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408111/posts
I think he is wrong in that even before 9/11 the security at the airport could make you show ID. Now it has become mandatory.
I also served in the Armed Forces after 9/11 albeit not in Iraq. The last time I flew, which was to my fathers funeral, the TSA searched me and my wife (Japanese). I was somewhat insulted by this. I think they do it just to put up appearances that they are being equitable. this is too rediculous to even discuss.
I for one do not think it is necessary to show ID. It is a type of restriction on free travel and it really slows things down. I don't believe that the TSA is doing that much better than the security did before 9/11.
As a member of the military and a conservative it surprises me that you would not be at least somewhat concerned that travel in this country has become as restrictive as it is.
My big argument with that one was that barber shops and manicurist parlors are likened to tattoo parlors and piercing emporiums because of potential health risks. If your using equipment which touches many different human bodies there has to be some kind of government regulation to stop the spread of certain diseases.
You could go back and forth on this one all day, but my point is that these people are whacko. They moved in just to break the law. They'll win alot of hearts in NH that way!
I wish they'd just f*ck off.
Yep, he has legs. He has all the freedom in the world to use them.
"My body is my passport."
-Abby Hoffman
Do you have to be a follower of everything right wing to be conservative? I mean does every conservative have to accept the Patriot Act, Stricter airport security, more rights being taken from us? I don't think so. I have to side with Ben Franklin on this one: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
I would think that a conservative would believe this more than a lib would. I know I do.
He's got an anus, too. And he'll find out what they use that for in Concord the HARD way!
Hey, freedom isn't free, right?
Not the last time I checked.
One thing I will agree with you on, and disagree with this bozo is that the TSA is not "restricting travel". They are keeping it more secure.
I see your point.
If Ben Franklin really said that he can kiss my ass. He must have been smoking his secret stash that day. He wasn't on Fort Hood when those twin towers hit.
I will come to the center in the cases of some social issues, but in terms of homeland security there is no room to screw around. No, the system isn't perfect. But this idiot sure isn't adding to it.
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