Doublefeed,
I'm sorry, what's a MEPS station? Not hardly anybody around actually, it was 10 pm Christmas Eve.
Wolfpack. I don't really have a problem showing my Drivers Liscense, excapt for the fact that EVRYONE want's your ID for ANYTHIGN these days. I bought a ticket, and I have it in my hand, why even send me the ticket if your are gonna check my ID and look in the trusty ol' computer anyway? Hell, they gave us "bording passes", and when I go to board the plain, they asked for the "tickets" I incorectly gave them the bording pass that I got at the front counter when I showed THEM my tickets and they took the stubs. They said they didn't want my boarding pass, they wanted my TICKET again. SO I showed them that. the other 5 times I boarded a plane that trip, I NEVER pulled ANY of the boarding passes out of my pocket, just the ticket and ID. SO WTF is the point of that?
I'm stating not that these event were "problems" mearly that they were alarming to me, AKA got my attention, made me think. I haveway thing the guy who asked for my papers phrased it that way intentionally, just because he was board, but the point is, it makes you think.
In a country founded upon keeping the Gov. from interfering in the daily life of a citizen, I found the call for "goverment ID" not to be a tyranny, but it did make me think about gov. interferance in our lives. I wasn't boarding a gov. aircraft, it was privatly owned and opperated. The private company operating it shoudl ahve the right to require whatever ID they wan't, if you don't like it, use a diffrent private airline.
-Justin