(Ohio) Senate OKs bill requiring Ohioans to reveal identity

[Occulus]

Anti-terrorism package would expand police powers

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
The Associated Press

COLUMBUS - Lawmakers say an anti-terrorism bill beefs up the state's ability to respond to terrorism while civil liberties groups worry it goes too far.

The Senate unanimously approved legislation Wednesday that for the first time would allow Ohioans to be arrested for not telling police officers their name, address and age. The bill heads next to the House.

The constitutionality of such laws was upheld last year by the U.S. Supreme Court, which said people who refuse to give their names to police can be arrested, even if they've done nothing wrong.

Under current law, police could arrest someone if they suspected the person had committed a crime, but they couldn't force the person to identify himself.

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(Mods, I don't know if this was posted from this source before noon Thursday. As I didn't see it anywhere before I went to work, I'm going on the (unfounded) presumption that this was posted Thursday afternoon, as no time is given. I did a search in LBN on the title and on Ohio and found nothing related.)

Well, that's Ohio. How many more will it be? I suppose this will only be used against that so-strict and rigid definition of terrorism, of course... :eyes:

[The Doctor.]

1. Keep a file cabinet in your wallet from now on....

You're in a police state.

[Occulus]

2. Oh, wait, I think I GET it now

National ID. Simple. All your information in one handy-dandy place.

36,000 Social Security numbers- I believe they were associated with government employees- were recently stolen. I understand the new bankruptcy laws do not allow for victims of identity theft (what. the. hell.).

2 + 2 = 4. Now add all that information in one place so the police can easily access it.

What if you lose your wallet? ALL licenses would have to have the data stored in the same format, and that'll get cracked (IF encrypted) in a New York minute. But you just know sure as night follows day that this law in Ohio and others like it will lead to the national ID, as will other "feel good" laws to protect us from terrorism.

In other news, a newly released FBI report discloses there aren't sleeper cells active in the US.

*gasp* but how would they know they were there? :crazy:

Premonitions of civil war haunt my darkest and saddest dreams. The American people are asleep at the wheel. What the bloody hell has to happen to end this stomping march into fascism?

I shake for our future.... or what is left of it....

[madmom]

3. My state of Ohio...

aka the asshole of the earth, has been a police state since the murderer James Rhodes conducted the Kent State massacre. FYI anti-war rally in Kent March 20, be there in body or spirit.