At 11:19 AM 9/8/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:

Hum. I wonder. Do you think these secret regulations are communicated via secure channels? What would happen if someone decided to send their own

regulations out to all of the local airline security offices rescinding any private regs, particularly if one used official-looking letterhead?

It would be better to inject *more heinous* secret rules than to attempt to remove them. "Why" is left as an exercise to the reader. Fax would probably suffice. At 01:52 PM 9/7/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:

I am however intrigued that they may be preparing to posit that secret rules (which act under color of law) can be enforced without being described publicly. This, if accepted, would effectively end all constitutional protections.

The phrase "constitutional protections" doesn't pass the giggle test these days. However the courts --when trials get that far-- will still toss out cases in which the state's evidence is not revealed. I expect that behavior will stop when domestic-US secret trials become common. To protect means, methods, and the chiiiildren, of course. At least the Europeans don't take the US seriously, esp after the use of torture was made clear, see eg the German trials. But the US is trying to control them via the oil connection. Rome did not fall in a day.