Photo ID is NOT Required to Board an Airplane!: 7th Circuit Issues Blatant Falsehoods on WI Photo ID

[JDPriestly]

11. Back in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, etc., there was lots of terrorism -- Palestinians for the most part

but others also. We did not show our IDs to get on a plane even though planes were hijacked.

The whole TSA thing is partly political and very exaggerated. How many terrorists have been on planes in recent years?

I don't mind showing my ID. After all, people in Communist Russia had to have permission to travel so we were told back in the 1950s when I was in grade and high school. It's only a small intrusion on your privacy to have to show an ID before boarding a plane.

I'm 71 and remember a lot of history. We slowly move toward Fascism, bit by bit. We really are the frogs in boiling water. We live more and more in urban areas in which we don't know each other. We become more and more suspicious, more and more frightened. And it all feeds the paranoia that divides us and makes us more pliant, more obedient to authority. Right now the authority is pretty gentle, pretty kind. But all it takes is a huge jolt of fear similar to the national emotion that 9/11 set off, and we could find ourselves in a far less kind, far less gentle conservatism.

What is the answer? I don't know. But remember, just being alive is dangerous. We live much longer than our great-grandparents expected a child to live in their time. We are doing very well.

I say once again, I don't mind showing my ID. I do fear what the paranoia is doing to the bit of freedom that is left on this earth.