the Court wrote that an 'officer may ask the ["Terry"] detainee a moderate number of questions to determine his identity and to try to obtain information confirming or dispelling the officer's suspicions. "But the detainee is not obliged to respond".' "Berkemer v. McCarty", (emphasis added)... the Court's statement in "Berkemer", while technically dicta, is the kind of strong dicta that the legal community typically takes as a statement of the law. And that law has remained undisturbed for more than 20 years. There is no good reason now to reject this generation-old statement of the law.