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The reason it was posted to you was because of your statement on SCOTUS deciding on a law mandating the carrying of ID. When you think about it, it doesn't matter whether the carrying of ID can be mandatory, as the good people of the state of California have a right to decide different punishments based on different conditions. Person A is carrying a lid and gets caught. In this very rare event, he produces an ID, and gets issued a ticket. Person B has even less of a lid, having been shorted by Shorty the Shiftless around the corner, because Shorty knows that Person B is a little short himself in the wits department anyway. An officer catches him checking out his lid on the steps of City Hall. He doesn't have an ID, or refuses to present it. He doesn't get a ticket. It was all his choice, of course. He is in complete control of his own destiny at all times.

What's a "lid"?

Anyway, what you post is not relevant to the fact that the act of not carrying an I.D. is not an arrestable offense. No court has ever ruled that once a person is stopped by a law enforcement while in commission of a misdemeanor or felony, that person doesn't have to provide I.D.

Regardless of whether you or I think certain actions should be "crimes", an officer has to have reasonable suspicion that you are engaged in one of these "crimes" to ask you for I.D. I think this is the entire point that was trying to be made to you.