Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:54 PM 1/31/2000 -0500, Jeff Moore wrote: >2000-01-31-13:17:30 BOB KRAMER: >> The next thing I know, a police officer is standing over me asking >> for my I.D. and wanting to now what I am doing sitting around this >> restaurant at 6:00 in the morning taking pictures! > >Now, WAIT a minute! What possible justification could he have for >asking any of that? That's irrelevant, Jeff, to the powers-that-be. The US Supreme Court has long accorded to the police the right to ask any citizen, at any time, their name and reason for being at the place, and for ID. It may well be a sad commentary on the state of the US that the police ARE given this authority, but they do have it. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!