Everyone Wants To Be My Minion
Mar. 2nd, 2005 09:52 amToday'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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Date: 2005-03-02 07:03 pm (UTC)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.