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According to the Federal Office of Personnel Management, only 1% of cases of nonregistrants adjudicated by OPM result in denial of Federal employment. Almost everyone who appealed a denial got their job restored:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-02-07/pdf/2024-0...
The Selective service System is required by law to maintain readiness to activate either of two types of draft: a "cannon fodder" draft of males 18-25, or a "Health Care Personnel Delivery System" for men and women up to age 45 in 57 occupations: https://medicaldraft.info
Congress could decide to expand the latter to other non-medical occupations as a broader "special skills" draft.
https://hasbrouck.org/draft/repeal.html
More on what femninists say about the dratt and draft registration: https://hasbrouck.org/draft/women/feminism.html
Here's why this won't work and is such a bad idea, and why dozens of organizations have already issued a joint call to "repeal* the Military Selective Service Act instead of trying to step up preparations for a draft:
https://hasbrouck.org/draft/automatic/
and
https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/10/12/cbp-changes-procedure...
TSA ID verification procedures (redacted) for people without ID: https://papersplease.org/wp/2018/05/08/tsa-releases-redacted...
records of how the TSA decides whether to let you fly without ID: https://papersplease.org/wp/2016/06/09/how-does-the-tsa-deci...
Fast die Hälfte der Millionen Kund:innen von T-Mobile in den USA waren vor einem Jahr Opfer eines riesigen Datenverlustes. Die Deutsche Telekom als Mutterkonzern verletzt seitdem ihre selbst auferlegten Verpflichtungen zum Datenschutz.
https://netzpolitik.org/2022/fast-50-millionen-us-konten-bet...
I've gotten no response to my e-mail messages sent to the 3 researchers who have identified themselves, or the Princeton IRB. But I was able to find phone numbers for all 3 of the researchers in their c.v.'s posted online. The Principal Investigator has yet to return my calls, but the grad student took my call. He referred most of my questions to the principal investigator, but he did tell me that they sent e-mail to between 200K and 300K addresses scraped form a list of the "top" 1M Web sites.
In California, for example, bicycling or waling on freeway shoulders is permitted except where specifically prohibited and signed. Bicyclists and pedestrians are prohibted from most California Interstate highways where there are alterantives bicycle and pedestrian routes, but there are mnay California Interstates on which bicyclists and pedesrians are allowed, including sections of I-5, I-10, and I-80.
In California, state law expressly allows walking along a freeway in an emergency:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Ferry
The ferries are especially useful if you want to take a bicycle across the river.
Here you go:
https://papersplease.org/wp/2011/02/16/british-man-marooned-...
https://papersplease.org/wp/2011/03/18/canadian-denied-passa...
https://papersplease.org/wp/2011/05/25/us-intervenes-to-bloc...
None of these people were scheduled to fly to, from, or via the USA.
There have also been people denied passage on fligths between other countries, merely becuase they were scheduled to pass through US airspace without landing. But that's a different issue from the incidents reported in the links above:
https://papersplease.org/wp/2009/05/16/air-france-passenger-...
https://papersplease.org/wp/2010/06/07/another-paris-mexico-...
https://papersplease.org/wp/2011/07/25/mexico-barcelona-flig...
The court found that she had sufficient connection to the US (including having lived in the US for years, and having children who were born in the US and are US citizens) to give her legal "standing" to raise these issues.
However, non-US citizens outside the US generally don;t have any right to challenge denials of US visas in US courts, which is why she remains barred from the US with no way to challenge that. (It's possible that one of her children could raise that issue in a US court, but they are afraid that if they they return to the US, the US might put them too on the no-fly list again, trapping them in the US.)
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002292.html
I finally spoke with United Airlines spokesperson Charlie Hobart today, after this article was published.
Mr. Hobart told me that the gate agents handling United Express flights at O'Hare, including those who called in what Mr. Hobart described as "Chicago Department of Aviation security officers", were employees of United and not of Republic or a third-party contractor.
Mr. Hobart claimed not to know whether or not "CDA security officers" are sworn law enforcement officers. That claim to ignorance strains credulity, unless United has deliberately kept its own spokespeople in the dark. And if United still hasn't been able to figure out, 10 days later, whether these thugs (I use that term deliberately, in its original sense of organized gangs that prey specifically on vulnerable travellers) were really police, how were passengers supposed to figure that out in the moment?
"I don't have access to that level of detailed information," he said in response to this and most of my other questions. When I asked if he could find out, he declined. "I'm not going to get into that level of detail."
Mr. Hobart said he didn't know whether the passenger was asked to leave by United or Republic employees, whether the "officers" were asked to remove the passenger by United or Republic employees, whether the officers talked to the pilots before removing the passenger, or how the officers identified themselves to the passenger.
"They were unable to obtain the cooperation of the passenger," Mr. Hobart said. He referred all my other questions to the City of Chicago Department of Aviation.
I wrote about my first arrest by Chicago police (not the one after which I was tortured) here:
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002168.html
If you want to discuss my personal history, get in touch with me directly, or leave a comment on my personal blog, which is probably a better place for that personal discussion than this third-party forum.
"...In the case of Delta Flight 1583, we don’t know what would have happened if a passenger declined to answer questions, declined to show ID, or tried to walk past the CBP officers and leave the plane. Some of the passengers might perfectly legally have passed through TSA checkpoints and boarded the flight without having or showing any ID, as people do every day.
It’s unclear whether a court would find that, in the circumstances depicted in this photo, a reasonable person would have felt free to leave without answering questions or showing ID documents.
The Supreme Court has also ruled that law enforcement officers questioning and searching passengers on a common carrier are not required to tell you whether you have to comply with their “requests”, or to tell you whether you are free to leave.
The only way to find out whether you are required to answer questions is to stand mute. The only way to find out if you are required to produce or hand over documents is to keep them out of sight and not to hand over or open your bags or put your hands in your pockets. The only way to find out if you are free to leave is to walk away. The only way to find out whether government agents will allow you to exercise your rights is to exercise your rights. Only then are you likely to be found to have standing to challenge any infringement of your rights.
So far as we can tell, all the passengers on Delta Flight 1583 produced and handed over documents that the CBP officers found acceptable, and were then allowed to leave. So we will probably never know whether the courts would have upheld the legality of the CBP officers’ actions."
More (including links to statute and regulations purporting to authorize CBP boarding of domestic flights):
https://papersplease.org/wp/2017/02/24/border-search-and-id-...