Agent Smith

[Major Variola (ret)]

>Don't citizens have to have an english-alphabet transliteration of
their
>name to use for legal purposes (birth certificate, green card, social
>security record)?

Not in the US.  In Japan and some nordic countries, only established
names can be registered.

>The DMV differentiates same-name people by SSN, right?  Is it very
>far-fetched to imagine that state courts and federal appeals courts
will
>uphold state laws requiring SSN disclosure for identification purposes?

I'm sorry, I only have a memory capacity of 7 plus or minus 2.  I can
deny
my memory, particulary under stress of interrogation.

Or I could use J. Edgar Hoovers which I sometimes mistake for mine.