Re: Internal Passports
At 10:02 AM 8/1/96 -0700, tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) wrote:
Question (a la "Wired"): "When will the United States introduce an internal passport?" May: "2005, but they won't call it that."
Stewart: "Last week, but they didn't call it that." According to Alaska Airlines, the FAA's policy as of last week has switched to a mandatory policy that if you don't produce government-issued photo-id, you can't get on the plane; the previous policy had been more flexible. The folks stamped my ticket "Documents Verified" - looks suspiciously similar to "Papers In Order". (Which they actually weren't, on my return trip; I handed her my work ID in the same plastic carrier as my train pass, and handed her the credit card I'd bought the tickets with explaining that I wasn't on government business and asking when had the policy changed and commenting. And the nice Rent-A-Xray-Technician who asked if I minded if he searched my computer bag was totally confused when I said "Yes, of course I mind.") You can still travel in a car if someone else is driving, and you can still get on a train without identification, but without papers you can't fly or drive, and you can't ride a horse on the freeway except in the back of a horse trailer. Driver's licenses were the beginning of a long downhill trend. I wonder if they'll still accept an American passport; the country has obviously been taken over by Pod People while we weren't looking.... # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> Defuse Authority!
On Sun, 4 Aug 1996, Bill Stewart wrote: [...]
You can still travel in a car if someone else is driving, and you can still get on a train without identification, but without papers you can't fly or drive, and you can't ride a horse on the freeway except in the back of a horse trailer. Driver's licenses were the beginning of a long downhill trend.
I wonder if they'll still accept an American passport; the country has obviously been taken over by Pod People while we weren't looking....
I often have trouble with foreign passports and one of my associates often has extensive problems trying to use an american passport for anything in the United States. Comments uttered in my presence on the subject have included: "We don't accept THOSE." "Sorry, we need to see OFFICIAL identification." "Don't you have something state issued?" "Uh, we need a driver's license number."
# Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> Defuse Authority!
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I've been using by british passport as photo-id for years, and I haven't had any major problems- you can get your checks printed with your passport number on them instead of a drivers licence, which will makes things much easier. Simon --- Cause maybe (maybe) | In my mind I'm going to Carolina you're gonna be the one that saves me | - back in Chapel Hill May 16th. And after all | Email address remains unchanged You're my firewall - | ........First in Usenet.........
In message <Pine.SUN.3.91.960805162736.4762C-100000@tipper.oit.unc.edu>, Simon Spero writes: :I've been using by british passport as photo-id for years, and I haven't :had any major problems- you can get your checks printed with your :passport number on them instead of a drivers licence, which will makes :things much easier. : There are a lot of retail stores that will complain if you don't use a driver's license when paying with checks. Most check collection agencys track people by that number. --Chris :Simon : :--- :Cause maybe (maybe) | In my mind I'm going to Carolina :you're gonna be the one that saves me | - back in Chapel Hill May 16th. :And after all | Email address remains unchanged :You're my firewall - | ........First in Usenet......... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Blizzard | "The truth knocks on the door and you say blizzard@nysernet.org | 'Go away. I'm looking for the truth,' and NYSERNet, Inc. | so it goes away." --Robert Pirsig -------------------------------------------------------------------
If you want to pay _with a check_, you play by their rules. In fact, the word "pay" might not completely appropriate in that transaction.
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According to Alaska Airlines, the FAA's policy as of last week has switched to a mandatory policy that if you don't produce government-issued photo-id, you can't get on the plane; the previous policy had been more flexible.
So does anyone have any sort of "official" list as to what constitutes "government-issued photo-id"? I'll be flying within California soon (see you at Crypto...), as as a "furriner", I have no US ID. I do have photo-id issued by _another_ government, though (a health card; I wonder if they'll have heard of that...). - Ian "I'd try to be sure to get to the airport early, but the plane leaves at some ridiculous time like 7:30am" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMgafi0ZRiTErSPb1AQFsOQQAmxihUufsUh5EYbJ1aHrnP0zFomUb/uo9 qAScGSlWAzzpXYuXnZaG29VeSJ60b/haXaIbSR8C1X4oEIUjiv69gzYa/YJS7RTr Vb4JEKZdJyiDPxZ7rlyVBquWGLBItazw4mkPAzFi4r6f0nnlXifq1zWGtTR7qakZ 1nGEEYfBeQE= =h/Zx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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