Freedom to Travel Event, Part 2

[Michael Fisher]

I agree with Russell. ?Remember to brush up on the federalization of airport security in late 2001 through the Aviation Security Act.

There are many links about it on this page:
Freedom to Travel Event

You're a smart group of people. ?I have confidence in everyone here. ?

[Russell Kanning]

Maybe I should demand their papers.

[cathleeninnh]

Kat, of course you can hang with us if Russel is gone awhile on Saturday.

Cathleen

[Michael Fisher]

SIGNAGE!!! ? ?I can't believe we almost forgot about signage!

Ideas:

PRIVACY IS A
HUMAN RIGHT

FEDERALIZATION
PRIVATE SECURITY

NATIONALIZATION
IS COMMUNISM

TRANSPORTATION
SOCIALISM
ADMINISTRATION

AVIATION SECURITY ACT

NATIONAL ID

REAL ID ACT

FREEDOM
TO TRAVEL

FREEDOM
IS
PRIVACY

TSA DESTROYS FREEDOM
TO PROTECT FREEDOM?

[Kat Kanning]

Considering what the FBI said yesterday:

WE HAVE A RIGHT TO TRAVEL

[Kat Kanning]

Kat, of course you can hang with us if Russel is gone awhile on Saturday.

Thank you, Cathleen! 

[Michael Fisher]

LOL, Kat!!!   

Hey, you could hang out with us in Newmarket, but Google says it's a 50-minute drive from Manchester.   

[Michael Fisher]

SLAVE OR OUTLAW
MAKE YOUR CHOICE

"YOUR PAPERS PLEASE"
IS THAT FREEDOM?

TRAVELING IS A
HUMAN RIGHT

TEMPORARY SAFETY
AT THE PRICE
OF FREEDOM?

HAVE THE TERRORISTS WON?

IF 9/11 WAS AN ATTACK
ON OUR FREEDOM,
HAVE THE TERRORISTS WON?

IF 9/11 WAS AN ATTACK
ON OUR FREEDOM
THE TSA IS OUR SURRENDER

[Michael Fisher]

NATIONAL ID:
JUST LIKE CHINA

NATIONAL ID:
JUST LIKE NAZI GERMANY

NATIONAL ID:
JUST LIKE THE USSR

NATIONAL ID:
JUST LIKE RUSSIA

WE ARE NOT FREE.
THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON

LIVE FREE OR DIE

[Dave Ridley]

updated version of press release.? feel free to change it and/or send it out as is.

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From NHfree.com
Keene, New Hampshire
6/6/05

FBI questions Keene I.D. protestor

Two FBI agents from the Boston division paid a visit to Russell Kanning's house in Keene today, about two weeks after he announced he would seek to board a Manchester airline flight with no I.D.

The 35-year-old libertarian activist wasn't home but rather cheerfully agreed to meet up with the agents at his workplace.? Special Agents Phil Christiana and Mark Alford spent about an hour interviewing him around 2PM on Monday, June 6.

"They were really friendly," he says, "they obviously weren't there to arrest me...The thing they were most concerned about was whether I was actually going to stay non-violent."? Kanning says the answer to that is "yes."

"There's nothing those guys can do to me at the airport that would make me use violence."

He says the agents seemed to relax somewhat and left after coming to the conclusion that he is not a physical threat and also that he cannot be deterred from his act of civil disobedience.? ?They did spend time lecturing him on national security issues and the fact that "flying is not a right."

"My impression after talking to them is that the likelihood of them breaking into my house or doing something like that is small."

Kanning also told the agents he has not paid Income Taxes since '98.

Background details and contact information for Kanning are included in the original press release below.? Future details will appear at
http://forum.soulawakenings.com/index.php?topic=991.0

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Original press release:

From NHfree.com:
Man Without I.D. Vows to Board Flight or be Jailed

Manchester, NH, May 21, 2005 - Inspired by New Hampshire's "outlaw manicurist," another Granite Stater is stepping forward to peacefully defy license-related laws.? Russell Kanning of Keene has announced he will approach a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at Manchester airport on June 11 and refuse to cooperate with the requirement to show I.D.? "I will either board the plane without I.D. or be arrested," he says.? "In a free country you do not need government permission to travel."? ?The 35-year-old accountant has a ticket to Philidelphia.

Kanning stresses that he will not resist arrest or do anything that might be perceived as physically threatening.? He says this act of nonviolent resistance will follow the model laid down by Gandhi, who used peaceful noncooperation to expel the British from India.? "We will tell them everything we're going to do ahead of time.? We are not going to disrupt the operation of the airport," he says.

Kanning says the parallels with Gandhi's situation go further than a shared belief in nonviolence.? ?"In South Africa (where Gandhi's protests began), Indians had to have special I.D...so it's very similar that way, and he wanted to burn it...He was appealing to that same basic idea that we have rights to not have to have paperwork to be able to move freely."

After the terrorist attacks in 2001, Federal authorities tightened flying restrictions and begain forcing citizens to have both a ticket and identification (usually a driver's license) in order to even enter an airport terminal.? ?Kanning says he refuses to carry a license on principle and disputes the idea that tighter restrictions really make flying safer.

Earlier this month another Gandhi admirer, Mike Fisher of Newmarket, used the Mahatma's techniques to protest business licensing.? After announcing he would perform an unlicensed manicure in front of the state licensing offices, he carried out his promise, earned a brief trip to jail and received heavy regional media coverage for his viewpoint.

Kanning says Gandhi's and Fisher's examples inspired him to take similar action against the growing "surveillance state."? He believes the Real I.D. amendment passed by the Senate this month will make things even worse.? But he says it's important to stay positive.? "The goal is we want to get to the point where we can travel without having to have paperwork, so this is the beginning of that.? We see light at the end of the tunnel."

Kanning is a member of the FreeStateProject (freestateproject.org), an organization which aims to bring 20,000 liberty lovers to New Hampshire.

Currently the plan is for Kanning to approach the security checkpoint at 12:30 PM.? Journalists and supporters will want to be there by noon.

Summary:

What:? Civil disobedience against ID requirements under federalized airport security.
Where:? Manchester Airport in New Hampshire (exact spot to be determined)
When:? Saturday, June 11 @ noon
Who:? Russell Kanning of Keene, NH, supporters from NHfree.com
Why:? To draw attention to the recent and continuing loss of privacy and freedom due to federalized airport security and National ID.
How:? By approaching a TSA checkpoint with a ticket but no I.D., refusing to show I.D. and refusing to cooperate with the I.D. requirement until arrested or allowed to board the plane.
Contacts:? Russell Kanning:? (603) 357-2049,? Kat Dillon (same number), Mike Fisher (603) 498-7935, NHfree.com

[Lloyd Danforth]

Poof! we're back on 'freedom to travel'

[Michael Fisher]

Poof! we're back on 'freedom to travel'

Where are my posts?

Please put them back.

[Michael Fisher]

My posts were not intended to harm or offend anyone.  No harm was done.

I believe free speech on this forum should be protected as much as possible, regardless of the fact that it is a private forum, and I believe the moderators' powers of censorship should only be exercised in the most extreme cases of harm, offense, or fraud.

This censorship is outside the normal operation of the NH Underground as far as I am aware.

Please do not be offended by the following action:

I am fasting and boycotting the NH Underground for 24 hours as a penance for this unnecessary censorship.

[Russell Kanning]

Poof! we're back on 'freedom to travel'

Did we somehow get off track after Mike's sign slogans?

[FTL_Ian]

Now I must know what was censored.  What's going on here?

Hey Russell, my co-host Johnson came up with a great name for you:  (like Outlaw Manicurist)

"Unidentified Flying Objector"