XPost: aus.legal, misc.legal, uk.legal   
   From: not@this.address.com   
      
   Ian Jackson wrote:   
   > In message , Epsilon   
   >  writes   
   >> richard wrote:   
   >>> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:31:43 -0600, "¦ Reality Check© ¦"   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "Mr X"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:h3vucc$3uf$1@frank-exchange-of-views.oucs.ox.ac.uk...   
   >>>>> If someone is arrested for an offence and they refuse to give   
   >>>>> their details or say anything at any point what will happen to   
   >>>>> them?  Are they be charged or tried without giving a name?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Shhhhh!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You've just discovered a giant loophole in the criminal justice   
   >>>> system.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> in the USA....   
   >>> The only time you are required by law to have proper   
   >>> identificiaction is while driving a licensed vehicle. Other than   
   >>> that, there are no laws which require a person to even have a name.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> They give passports to nameless people in the US?  I doubt it.   
   >   
   > I never knew that you needed a passport to drive in the USA.   
      
   Nor did I.  But the proposition advanced, with no qualification, was that   
   "there are no laws which require a person to even have a name.".  I believe   
   that the passport laws do.   
      
   Follow?   
      
   > And why does a reply to your posting get sent to alt.fuckwits?   
      
   Depends on the replying poster.  In your case, it is quite obvious.   
      
   Follow?   
      
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