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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.

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[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.