Still Not Joe Wrote:
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> Joe Wrote:
> >
> > Now, if you choose to not provide ID to the
> police
> > under your belief that you don't have to, then
> go
> > right ahead and do that. If you feel it's worth
> > getting arrested, that's your decision. As I
> said
> > previously, I think the officers blew it by not
> > escorting him off MTA property and issuing a
> > trespassing warning.
>
>
> Isn't it interesting that despite your armchair
> lawyering credentials that apparently qualify you
> as "arbiter and knower of all things Philadelphia
> Lawyer-like", the police in question did NOT, in
> fact, arrest Chris, nor do any of the other stupid
> things you mention, because, in fact, you don't
> need to even have an ID on you. For driving you
> need a license of course. But you do NOT in fact
> need to carry an ID or papers here in the US of A!
> Read the links people are providing you pal...in
> a free country, we are indeed actually free to do
> any lawful thing we want. And that includes not
> providing an ID when a police officer asks, when
> we are doing no wrong. Sure the police can screw
> up and detain you, etc...but as this situation
> shows, they are wrong to do so and will get
> corrected about it, provided the detained person
> exercises their rights and refuses, as Chris did.
> And golly gee ya know what? The police realized
> that and let him go. FACT, JOE.

Listen "Pal"....don't go lecturing me on the law when you sit there doing it yourself, you old loony hypocrite.