You can still travel. But if you are going to use a private transport, you have to do so by their rules.
Since both you and Drmiler have seemingly missed this semi-important passage mentioned in the article which addresses your valid point I will repost it here:
The gate agent asked for his ID.
Gilmore asked her why.
It is the law, she said.
Gilmore asked to see the law.
Nobody could produce a copy. To date, nobody has. The regulation that mandates ID at airports is "Sensitive Security Information." The law, as it turns out, is unavailable for inspection.
This means there can be no public debate about the secret law. What happened to transparency in democracy? If there are laws written that cannot be disclosed to public view then they are authoritarian in nature and not subject to the usual safeguards in our democracy.
Singrdave,
I'm very aware of the social contract. I would suggest to you that the contract has become unilaterally changed due to citizens' uninformed apathy, disinterest, and disregard for being party to the democratic society. This, combined with a heavy dose of fearmongering continually raining down upon us from our governmental leaders and the MSM has led us to a more draconian form of government our forefathers would likely not recognize as their own brainchild.
The fact is, many citizen groups that are against the new government superstructure are finding themselves targeted:
The ACLU being persecuted in the public arena as it fights for civil liberty is a good example, the antiwar protestors being targeted by the NSA is another example, my little brother being visited by the FBI and told not to bother showing up for the RNC in Boston last year to protest is another example, the NSA probe to find out who leaked the information about the secret executive order is another example...time and time and time again the evidence mounts - but we keep getting this excuse that people are voluntarily 'rolling over' so that they may be 'protected'. We get this excuse that if someone wants to do something about this predicament of an ever tightening noose strangling our autonomy then someone can 'do something about it'.
The fact is, groups that are 'doing something about it' are being met with retaliation to keep the current agenda of a prison without bars rolling.
If you are familiar with the prison without bars analogy then you understand that an innocent person placed behind bars will often try to find some means of escape. Because they can touch and see and feel the bars and enclosing walls they fully understand they are trapped and will look for inviting weaknesses that will provide a route to freedom.
If, instead, you take an innocent person and trap them in a space without bars and walls they can see, they will assume they are 'free' and not bother trying to escape from the space they are actually enclosed in.
Enable yourself to see the invisible bars: the establishment of secret laws, silent executive orders, and obscure language found in public documents deceitfully sold to the public by career politicians once shifty - eyed attorneys have backhandedly found ways around your social contract, singrdave. How many bills passing through the house lately have you contacted your representative on and even received an answer? Public servants are supposed to be reachable by their constituents. Did you even know of the Real ID Act before it's passing? Did you get a copy of the Patriot Act to read before giving the thumbs up to your senator? Did your Senator even read the whole damned thing the night it was printed up because it was passed the day after...
It's taken me nearly a year to convince some of my family members of the Real ID bill's existence as no one believed a National ID card would ever come in to being. The MSM was deathly silent about it. Though I spent 10 months telling my Mother (a dyed in the wool yellow dog Democrat) of the Republican Sponsored bill she failed to believe in it until she actually heard it reported on NPR. Nearly 10 months after the bill's passing and only now is it being reported on? Only now is a controversial Republican sponsored bill being reported on by what some refer to as 'liberal media'? The rest of the MSM was equally quiet about it and only began the reporting of it nearly ten months after it's passing. Something is wrong.
This is the problem I'm attempting to address, singrdave, people aren't listening because they are busy being lulled in to a very un-American way of life and if they do have their eyes and ears out for potential problems they look like Cassandras (see: mythology) because the MSM busy telling people how the world is is busy telling people how the world isn't.
Naysayers keep telling 'Chicken Littles to stop clucking' but g*dd@mn big f*cking pieces of the sky are falling all around us.
