The next time I refused to produce ID and the agent freaked, I told her, “just tap up Sec-Dec 96-5 on your computer, and go to Paragraph 1, Section C. Designate me as a ‘selectee,’ and proceed accordingly. She apparently thought I was an FAA undercover employee, because she said that she was “tired of you federal guys coming around” and literally spying on airline agents, “coercing us into lying to people, and essentially being the ‘bag man’ for an activity which has no legal requirement.” I told her that I could not agree more.
- http://www.lookingglassnews.org/printerfriendly.php?storyid=7040
You can travel on an airplane without ID
August 17th, 2009
I always found it amazing how TWA 800 was used to bring on the ID requirement and get the Logan observation deck closed, myself.
I was always tempted to say something like "yes, a man I've never met before took them away from me and put them in a locked compartment I had no access to. Also he looked and sounded foreign." That is after all an accurate description of most taxi rides to the airport....
Things may have changed in the last two years, but it sort of made me question some of Gilmore's claims at the time.