Everyone Wants To Be My Minion

[drplokta]

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Today's legislation concerns identity documentation. It is now a criminal offence to request, accept or produce any government-issued identity documentation for any purpose other than its designated purpose. Passports are to prove your nationality. Driving licenses are to prove your entitlement to drive. US-style "non-driver IDs" have no purpose, so you might as well throw them away. The government does not issue such documents in order to make it easier for people to check up on each other. If private entities such as airlines find it convenient to require their customers to prove their identities, they will have to bear the costs of issuing documentation themselves.

Comments

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Actually passports are to allow you gateway from one country to another so airlins would still be netitled to use them tho not on domestic flights :-)

I think the national ID card's purpose IS to allow you to prove your ID in any circumastance whatsoever so it would still be legal too. Good try tho!

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you're forgetting that drplokta is global dictator, so there are no longer any borders, and all flights are in fact domestic flights.

There are times when it is important to be able to prove one's ID, and more importantly, prevent anyone else from pretending to be you. Boarding a plane is probably one of those. I have no problem with companies saying "prove who you are or you can't use our service", as I have the right to vote with my feet and not use their service. There are also issues like proof of age for buying alcohol/tobacco/whatever other drugs our great leader decides to legalise. However, bodies like police should not be allowed to pick on random people and demand to see ID.

[jamesb.livejournal.com]

REBEL

do not wear red sash's

do not listen to the pipers evil tune about Aughrim

YOU fools, NO NO NO

action is at hand

J

[drplokta]

National ID cards will not be allowed unless they come with a defined set of permited uses that cannot be extended without new primary legislation.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

Pray, Sir, allow me to View With Alarm the regrettable tendency of politicians to enact new primary legislation while conducting a close-range optical examination of the probable anatomical location of their presumed seat of intelligence.

Come to think of it, it's some sort of seat they've got their heads stuck into.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Not everyone, I don't!

And how can andrewducker be in charge of anything to do with Windows when bohemiancoast is in the process of banning it? Is his a short term role?

[drplokta]

See their correspondence at http://www.livejournal.com/users/drplokta/44469.html?thread=221109

[andrewducker]

It's a very long term role, as my department _obviously_ takes precedence over hers.

(And even cursory examination of any dictatorship will show that almost every area of government was working at cross-purpouses with every other one)

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahahahahaha!

[snooze]

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

I've just promoted myself to minion i/c of fanfic, but in the mean time, here's my new legislation about slash (http://www.livejournal.com/users/yonmei/416902.html#cutid1).

[redbird]

Two questions w.r.t. identity documents.

The first is a request: I hope it is still legal to pull them out for the traditional purposes of showing to friends and saying 'look what a bad photo they got' and 'this is what I looked like when I was in college.'

Second, a major use of such documents in the United States is to prove that the bearer is old enough to purchase legal drugs, specifically alcohol and tobacco. Are you planning to abolish age requirements for such purchases?

[drplokta]

Yes, they may still be shown around for recreational purposes. I'm not necessarily planning to abolish age limits. In the UK the pub chains have banded together to produce their own proof-of-age card, since many people who have recently reached legal drinking age don't have any other ID that proves their age, and there is no reason why the same can't happen in the US. In any case, I will not be permitting punishments amounting to more than a slap on the wrist for selling booze to someone who appears to be of legal drinking age.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

It has been reported in uk.business.agriculture that publicans are being disadvantaged in under-agre drinking cases by the booze-raddled bints turning up at court attired in their modest an d sedate school uniforms, rather than the skimpy, if not outright scanty, attire of the courtesan, 22nd Class, which they resort to in the Public Bar of the Ferret and Fanzine.

The ensuing discussion put forward the boring suggestion that these persons should be photographed, as part of the documenting of the arrest.

Perhaps you would support some other solution, such as a radical redesign of school uniform, which might have the added advantage of incentivising the young men of the Kingdom to actually attend school.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

I'm available to become minion in charge of firewalls, mail servers and the like.

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

and short haircuts?

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

Any more minion openings?

Could I possibly take charge of Las Vegas? I promise not to break it.

Minions, oy

[libertango.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose anyone has asked to be Minion i/c Minyans?

Not that I am, mind you... Just curious. ("You certainly are, Minister.")