Demanding to see one's identity papers smacks of a totalitarian society, does it not?
I'd say that a lack of free elections and a solitary leader smacks of a totalitarian society.
Are we closer to a society where people are stopped constantly and asked for identification papers, or are we closer to a society where criminals run rampant curtailing the liberties of ordinary citizens to be secure in their own persons and possessions? Me, I'd say we're a lot closer to the later of the two.
In the case we're discussing, the officer had every reason to believe that Hibbel was a suspect in a reported crime. I don't see anything wrong with under those circumstances having a police officer request for ID. That really doesn't seem like an unreasonable request.
Now, as I said before, retinal scans at street lights, embedded ID chips, yeah, obviously that is (agreed, I'm sure). The question is, where is the line, what is reasonable?
Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"