Re: ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: If this is the case, then this reveals what I would argue to be a dangerous mindset: The government needs to protect the people from themselves...ie, from the normal operation of democracy. On Cyperhpunks I would suppose this does not seem suprising.

Re: ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen

From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 30, 2004 5:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen .. For instance, is it indeed possible that revealing this rule would pose an additional security risk? If such a rule exists (and it does) then hijackers obviously

Re: ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen

John Kelsey wrote... Maybe. I guess the thing that's confusing about any of these answers is that the rules as they're applied must be propogated to thousands of people. It's not like they could easily hide guidance like no more than 10 Arabs per flight or double-screen anyone with brown skin

Re: ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen

At 05:06 PM 9/30/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: I post this not as a refernce per se, but to ask the question: Exactly Why Does the Government Not Want to Reveal Their ID Rules? For instance, is it indeed possible that revealing this rule would pose an additional security risk? If such a rule

Re: ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen

Talking out his ass, Tyler Durden wrote: That's a good point. And those screeners ain't exactly the cream of the crop, if ya' know what I mean. A year ago they were making minimum wage, so if someone wanted a copy of those guidelines, it'd be easy as hell to con it out of one of em.

Re: Federal program to monitor everyone on the road

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