New meme, everybody! Thanks to Bishop Hill for this invaluable re-employment checklist. Could I be a Terrorist?
▪ Support for minor parties like the Libertarians and UKIP
[tick]
▪ Talk of “New World Order” conspiracy theories
[no tick; talk of Occam-compliance clearly doesn't count]
▪ Opposition to the Bank of England and support of the gold standard
[er, tick]
▪ Opposition to Army involvement in national security
[well, hang on a minute there; what exactly is meant by 'national security'? The point of an Army is rather about protecting the security of the nation, as well as acting ornamental in front of Buck House. Tick withheld, unless this actually means opposition to Army involvement in protecting desperate, evil governments against the indignant wrath of a population whose legendary patience has finally expired, in which case tick]
▪ Opposition to the EU
[tick]
▪ Opposition to universal military service
[not really a tick at all; I'm rather in favour of the Swiss model myself]
▪ Tax resistance
[tick]
▪ Possession of subversive literature: “pictures, cartoons, bumper stickers that contain anti-government rhetoric. Most of this material will depict the HR Revenue and Customs, ACPO, HSE, UN, Police and EU in a derogatory manner.”
[possession? I'll have you know I write the stuff myself. Two ticks.]
The only silly thing about this is that real terrorists are always super-fit, for carrying heavy bombs and stuff and running away from the police. There are no questions at all about one’s physical aptitude for the job and I wonder whether on the basis of a questionnaire solely about opinions they are going to be able to recruit the right sort of people.
Anyway, notwithstanding my own fitness, or lack thereof, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if having filled in the damned form some little twerp decided to turn me down on the grounds that I was ‘overqualified’.
