XPost: aus.legal, misc.legal, uk.legal   
   From: ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , Epsilon   
    writes   
   >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?   
   >   
   Don't the vast majority of USAians NOT actually have a passport?   
   But surely it's a rule - not a law - that you need a name.   
      
   >> 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?   
      
   Yebbut...   
   What's the point?   
   --   
   Ian   
      
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