Re: Legality of requiring credit cards?

[The Deviant <deviant@pooh-corner.com>]

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On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Dale Thorn wrote:

> David Wagner wrote:
[...]
> Several (or most) states threaten their drivers in the license literature
> that if they're caught driving without possession of the license (even
> though the person so caught has a valid license somewhere), they can be
> jailed as a criminal.  If there are any cases where this has been tested,
> I'd like to hear about them.

I've heard about such cases, and in fact North Carolina (where I am)
"requires" all drivers to have their card on their person while driving.
A friend of mine was pulled without his, and they gave him 30 days to
produce it, and finally agreed just to look it up on the computer when he
produced 2 other valid forms of ID.  But then again, in North Carolina the
family Bible is a valid form of ID (as well as a completed work
_application_, and other odities).

 --Deviant
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They seem to have learned the habit of cowering before authority even when
not actually threatened.  How very nice for authority.  I decided not to
learn this particular lesson.
                -- Richard Stallman


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