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.