If you had tickets to a sports event, concert, Disneyland , or on an airplane, and
when you got to your assigned seat, and someone else was in that seat, what
would you do? You would call for a person in charge of ticket checking
and have the person in your seat removed. You would be properly asked to
show your ticket, and you would gladly and proudly do so, for you have bought
and paid for that seat. The person in your seat would also be asked for
a ticket, and they would not be able to produce one. They would be
called “gate crashers” and they would be properly removed.

Now in this huge stadium called the USA we have had millions of gate crashers.
We have been asking security to check for tickets and remove the gate
crashers. We have been asking security to have better controls in
checking at the door. We have asked security to lock the back
doors. Security has failed us. They are still looking the other
way. They are afraid to ask to see the tickets. Many people say
there is unlimited seating, and whether there is or not, no one should
be allowed in for free while the rest of us pay full price!

In section AZ, of Stadium USA , we have had enough of the failures of
Security. We have decided to do our own ticket checking, and properly
remove those who do not have tickets. Now it seems very strange to me
that so many people in the other 49 sections, and even many in our own section
do not want tickets checked, or even be asked to show their ticket! Even
the head of Security is chastising us, while not doing his own job which he
has sworn to do.

My own ticket has been bought and paid for so I am going to proudly show it when
asked to do so. I have a right to my seat, and I want the gate crashers
to be asked to show their tickets too. The only reason that I can
imagine anyone objecting to being asked for their ticket is that they are in
favor of gate crashing, and all of the illegal activities that go with
it. Such as drug smuggling, gang wars, murder, human smuggling for
profit, and many more illegal and inhumane acts that we are trying to prevent
with our new legislation. Is that what I am hearing from all of the
protestors such as Phoenix Mayor Gordon, and US Rep. Grijalva, etc.? If you are not in favor of showing tickets (proof of
citizenship, passport, green card, or other legal documentation) when stopped for some illegal activity and asked for proof of citizenship, as I
would proudly do, then one must be condoning those illegal activities.

Tom Moody

United States Citizen