Are Americans To Be Tortured For Refusing To Show ID?
965128
i think you are correct and it is getting to that point, the police in my opinion have way to much leeway!! the other day, i was in a car with my friend who was speeding, she got pulled over and the officer wanted my ID also!!! why, i was not driving the car, i did not break the law at all, yet if i don't turn over my ID i can go to jail for failure to provide ID. this is terrible and i feel it is not right.
590423
They wouldn't want to be accused of being used to 'chill' anyone's freedom of peaceful expression.  There were tons of legals at the march.  They had no more knowlegde from looking at the crowd who was and who was not an illegal immigrant than we did.  Realistically, they would have been barbequed if they had gone up to every person there and asked for ID to be in the country.  Besides, there is no law that says you have to carry ID when you protest, so what good would it do?  \n\nSome absences may have given them leads, or some businesses that closed may have confirmed suspicions, but they need some level of cause to accost someone.\n\nGood thing, too.  I'm against illegal immigration, but who wants to live somewhere where you can be detained just for doing what they did yesterday?
311836
Some of you people relly amaze me.  Your identity is the only real thing that you have.  I have worked too hard for some idiot trying to make a quick buck or an illegal trying to get legitmacy using my name to take this as some that just happens.  That is BS.  As far as taking kids id's, these kids will have a hard time in the future when they are applying for college or a loan and they can't prove that they are truly who they say they are.\n\nStop making excuses or putting your heads in the sand, because your head may be in the sand, but your ass is going to be trying to get out of jail because someone with your id just committed a crime.
365316
It's not legal. All police officers, in or out of uniform, have to show ID if asked.
831750
The most common answer I've heard from people who don't have a form of ID is that it's just the "government's way to keep track of you."  To be quite honest, that's a pretty lame excuse to me.  You don't need to have an ID to be able to be found and kept track of.  I understand the need for an ID when voting, or for anything rather.  It protects your identity and doesn't allow others to do things in your name.  When showing an ID before voting, it ensures the people there that no one else is using your name to cast a ballot (i.e., people who want to vote more than once or people who aren't registered at all).  \n\nIDs are pretty necessary to do much of anything lately...open bank accounts, fly somewhere, even accepting new job positions in a lot of cases.  Most think of "Drivers License" when they hear ID, but you can have a state ID as well, which don't require tests or anything.  With so much identity theft going on in the world today, it's better to have an ID than to go without.
1147463
Because America needs prisons to detain those who are to be tortured when interrogated.  If prisoners are held on American soil, they must be interrogated under the restrictions of the American laws, Constitution, and Geneva Convention.  If prisoners are held in other countries that are not restricted by little things like civil rights and civil liberties, then they can be tortured "legally."\n\nThat answer may sound harsh.  But, unfortunately, since WWII, The American Government has used other countries for this expressed purpose.
627289
First off, who's "Asama?" Lucky the government hasn't started recording how often Americans make spelling errors... the terrorists might find out how illiterate the average American is :-p \n\nAlso, there's a big difference between voluntarily applying for credit cards and grocery store cards (and those companies using that information for marketing purposes) and the government secretly keeping track of who you call. It's not just a matter of "Don't call any terrorists and you'll be fine..." It's a matter of being able to control your personal information. When you apply for a credit card, you are willingly giving up personal information... and those companies have certain rules about HOW they can use that information, that they are required and willingly let you know about (and if you bother to read the terms of service they give you, you know what those rules are).  But, no one who made a phone call between September 11th and now had any idea that the government was keeping track of who they called and how often... and they certainly didn't consent to it. I'm not worried about the government breaking down my door because I know I haven't done anything wrong. But, it's a matter of the government crossing a line they had no right to cross. A peeping tom or even just a nosy neighbor looking in your window may not be hurting you in any way that can be measured, but wouldn't you feel violated just by the thought that they were watching you without your knowing, without your consent? Americans are hurt and angry about this because they feel violated and wonder, what's next?
457232
Probably !?!?!?\n\nLet us know how it goes, my EVIL parents have been trying to set me up for ID theft -- JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE EVIL, AND I KNOW IT !!!\n\nIt hasn't happened yet but it probably will soon and when it happens ITS A CONSPIRACY and those butt heads are going straight to JAIL !
897222
All these people who support ID cards have never read the small print, it will become compulsory to carry them  as in many other countries with police and other officials being able to demand their production by you.   This mantra that if you 'have nothing to hide you've nothing to fear' is the one of the oldest 'brainwashing' techniques' in the world.  Do you think an ID card will stop terrorism like the London Underground bombings?. Think again.
1118201
First secret prisons, maybe for terrorest who are arrested outside the US,  there are no civil rights people who are not american citizens outside the US.  Only those rights of the Geneva Convenction, (human rights)\n\nWe are trying to judge military prisons or prisioners of war under the wrong idea of what they are, they do not, never did get consititional rights.\n\nEven in WWII, the US took away the constitutional rightrs of Japanise americans and put them in camps and they lost thier property in the US during this time.\n\nAnd no people are not spying on liberals, why they tell more than they know to start with.  The only spying is to track and trace telephone calls of posible terroest links ( and emails and regular mail)  \n\nMerely alot of issues taken out of context by the opposing public party that cares little about destroying our war effort if they can win an election.
411496
yes most deffinately. a defendant has the right to confront their accusers. this is why we have the witness protection program. more or less the government changes your identy and sets you up somewhere else to live. however these deals are made prior to your testimony and generaly reserved for people who can give up the goods on major crime figures or anyone whos life is in iminate danger for testifying this is a very hard status to get.
1076271
I agree with you.  If you are born here then you are a "legal American" and that child has no power over what thier parents did, so no they sohuldn't be punished for something that they couldn't control in the first place.  I agree with this question.
332537
In America, no.  That would put them afoul of the 1st Amendment.  And while the 1st Amendment is slowly but surely being whittled away, we're still not yet at the point where the press has to submit stories for goverment approval before publication.
625935
Yes.\n\nPeople are held there without trial.  They are not given any legal rights including the right to know why they are being held, the charges against them, the length of time they have to stay there, or the right to defend themselves with proper legal process.\n\nOn top of that there have been numerous allegations of mistreatment and torture.\n\nSounds like a concentration camp to me.
159985
SS# are obviously not required if the respondent is not a US citizen, since you can't have one. It is unclear whether or not you have to supply another sort of identifying number, but I would ask a lawyer about that.
706877
I would take the view that any passport which I held would be none of their concern.  Not all UK citizens hold passports and it would be absurd for such persons to be discriminated against on those grounds.  However, it seems reasonable enough for someone registering for a course to show proof of identity, including proof of identity with a photograph of the individual concerned.  I would therefore take such proof along with me, leaving my passport at home, and I would kick up a fuss if they demanded a passport and make it clear that I proposed to write to my MP.  I would also hang on jealously to my proof of ID.
1060495
You have clearly misunderstood the purpose of the Yahoo! Answers forum. The purpose is to pose questions and answers. \n\nDiatribes are a violation of the Terms Of Service. \n\nMy strong recommendation to you is that you post this sort of content on a political action forum, such as you'd find at http://www.craigslist.org - this is not the appropriate place. \n\nFinally, you say "Needles to say, I will not identify this Federal employee since they stuck their neck out when they told me all this, they obviously felt these laws were ludicrous just as I and most other Americans feel they are..."  - I fail to see why your posting an unattributed content of information (which you CLAIM you go from a federal official) is 'needles' to attribution.