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sucker4lush:
Farmer-g, I'm a fan of your posts I've seen so far, but this sounds like Bill Clinton or somethin'.
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I got accused of "parsing" and "hair-splitting" before by another, less friendly poster- it's probably true. I confuse myself sometimes.
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A name can't be "the full extent of identity". A name is just a word.
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True. I meant that a name is the full extent of res-
identification. The thing, or personality, that is id'ed.
Even the various numeric tracking systems are used to narrow the focus onto "which" person, identified by name. This has got to be the reason why so much emphasis on this item, the name. It's the one thing that is always required no matter what- they will even make up one if no other is available. "John Doe".
I got charged w/ "furnishing false ID information to officer", a misdemeanor, based on nothing but the difference between my name, and a name that mail came in a few times which a tenant/local employee saw, and assumed was mine. These people are obsessed w/ names, and want to stuff each of us into a box w/ a label on it.
Often, a name gets charged, and then a body is attached. Someone once told me, regarding a civil suit, his lawyer "sued the sign" (of a local business). Lately, some local enforcement came up, looking for someone to respond to a name. They did not have any other indicator- someone had made allegations before a judge, and just "named" the imagined author. They used a "filler" name I gave for a form at a local library. It suited my purpose so I accepted the offer to identify myself w/ that moniker.
But the reason a CoS is ID is that if you write this name in the presence of the official requester, then you have either:
1. committed a crime of "false info"
2. told the truth
there is no 3rd alternative, unless there is a mistake or error- if the cop has reason to believe this then it can proceed accordingly.
Otherwise, failing an arrest, the name is presumably true, for lack of any other possibility. And we are presumed innocent so there needs to be a articulate reason to charge to the contrary.
A background check can be run on just a name: try this for PA
http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/WebDock...rCriteria.aspx
from PA
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§ 6308. Investigation by police officers.
(a) Duty of operator or pedestrian.--The operator of any vehicle or any pedestrian reasonably believed to have violated any provision of this title shall ... write their name in the presence of the police officer if so required for the purpose of establishing identity.
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