Don't Show Your ID on the Bus - Go to Jail

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Friday November 25, 2005 · 1:13 PM PST

2005/11/25 · 13:13

She may not be the new Rosa Parks, but Ms. Deborah Davis of Denver is making a stand against our eroding personal rights.

One morning in late September 2005, Deb was riding the public bus to work. She was minding her own business, reading a book and planning for work, when a security guard got on this public bus and demanded that every passenger show their ID. Deb, having done nothing wrong, declined. The guard called in federal cops, and she was arrested and charged with federal criminal misdemeanors after refusing to show ID on demand.
On the 9th of December 2005, Deborah Davis will be arraigned in U.S. District Court in a case that will determine whether Deb and the rest of us live in a free society, or in a country where we must show "papers" whenever a cop demands them.

Ms. Davis has a son in Iraq. Remember how the rightwing nut jobs talk about how it is important to fight for our freedom? Well apparently it is time to fight for that same freedom here as Murrow always put it.

PapersPlease.org has the entire story here, here, and here.

I hope that the Kossack Nation follows her case and turns it in the blog storm that it needs to be, because we know that the MSM will bury this story.

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Don't Show Your ID on the Bus - Go to Jail

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