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"Maxwell" wrote:

"Alan Baker" wrote in message
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First of all, I can't speak for Canadian law, I have no insight there. All
my experience pertains to the US, and Oklahoma specifically.

Here's the thing: police don't get to stop someone who is doing nothing
suspicious on spec -- at least they shouldn't get to.

The OPs example was walking through the parking lot of a business, probably
closed, at 1 am. In the US it takes very little to meet the threshold of
reasonable suspicion to stop and question a pedestrian. Perhaps a little
more for a moving vehicle, but you don't have to be obviously breaking the
law.

Question, sure. They can ask questions, and I can answer them. No need
for ID.



I don't have to prove or even suggest that I have a right to exist.

That depends entirily on where and when you choose to exist, and anything
that might be under investigation in your proximity.

Incorrect. Simply incorrect.

My rights do not change in such circumstances.

The police have the authority to ask who I am, where I live, but even if
they have suspicions that I have committed a crime, that does *not* give
them the authority to require ID from me. What if I just haven't brought
my wallet along; what then?