or "what everyone thinks is the law isn't".
I have had occasion to travel a good deal in the last several months, and on those trips I decided to research and test this issue about the necessity for producing identification. I have talked with agents, and their supervisors, of several major airlines in cities across America, and have gradually pieced together a rather complete picture of the real legal situation regarding our right to travel.
[via: Jeremy]
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Credit due to Derek, where Z got it. And then to JWZ, where Derek got it.
#It is amazing how many things in life we believe are controlled by the law that just aren't, and sometimes vice versa. Thank you for sharing your discoveries.
Sometimes I daydream about opening a school that teaches people their rights and how to handle situations with authorities. People are taken advantage of regularly by corporations, the police and others because they do not know the law well enough to use it. How different would this country be if the citizens had the knowledge to utilize even just our constitutional rights?
Government control of personal life is growing and most people are hardly noticing. In college, I was refused service from the Bursars Office because I had put stickers on my student ID. The reason I was given was ridiculous, I was supposedly "defacing university property." I graduated three years ago and I have yet to hear from the university regarding my failure to return their property after leaving their institution.
I wonder how people who work behind counters and ask for identification all day would react to a "homemade" ID. After all, no one can express one's identity better than the person it belongs to. Despite the amount of information the government probably knows about me that I don't know they know, I can confidently say they don't know me well enough to represent me accurately.