• spaceghoti
    +6

    While it's not illegal for law enforcement agents to lie to you, it is illegal for you to lie to them.

    I take pains to keep my real identity separate from my online activity. To that end, I also have a social media account that's directly linked to my real identity. If they want to see that, they're welcome to it. I refuse to volunteer more information than that.

    • Appaloosa
      +3

      typetty-type-typitty-clack...we've noted that sir. Have a good day.

      • spaceghoti
        +4

        Do you know who I am?

        No, I don't.

        Exactly. Have a good day.

    • RoamingGnome (edited 8 years ago)
      +2

      I would simply lie. I don't go by the name on my ID, so they could take my ID and search all they want for me online, they will never find it. To be clear- I've never been called by my real name from the day I was born. I was named after a relative out of respect, but my mom and dad wanted to call me a different name, so that's the name they always used and the name everybody calls me.

      In addition, while it's illegal to lie to an "official", I don't have enough respect for them or the law to care.

      • spaceghoti
        +3

        Whether or not you have respect for them or the law, if they catch you lying to them they'll make you regret it.

        • RoamingGnome (edited 8 years ago)
          +2

          That is true. I've paid the price for my, as my first grade teacher so aptly put it, "Lack of Respect for Authority". I tried to tell them then, and I will tell you now: It's not that I don't respect authority, I simply do not recognize authority. The concept, as I write it, just seems so weird that people think they have some Divine Right to tell other people what to do.

          Edit- With that said, I'm always open to suggestion and conversation.