We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.

Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]

You are required to attend the summit of Mt Snowdon at 0300h tomorrow.

In a detailed post about about the Identity Cards Bill Chris Lightfoot makes this point:

…Hilariously, they haven’t even fixed s.12(4) in which

The things that an individual may be required to do under subsection (3) are–

(a) to attend at a specified place and time; […]

— this is the same as in the draft, and they haven’t even bothered to add `reasonable’ as many responses to the consultation suggested. Presumably if some bored Crapita employee does send out a notice of the form,

You are required to attend the summit of Mt. Snowdon at 0300h tomorrow morning so that we can take your fingerprints; failure to attend will be punished by a civil penalty of £1,000. Do not pass `go’.

the courts will eventually tell him to go fuck himself, but we have to wait to find out.

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