One objective of the game might be to expand dominance of markets which require the voluntary surrender of your identity capital in lieu of proof of purchase. The interpretive ability to identify someone brings a tremendous amount of power. From there, society denies or permits your access to resources based exclusively on a qualified form of identity.
Today Americans are suffering intense challenges to the perception of their identity. The cheap pride from owning the Ford F-150 is failing the pragmatic agenda miserably, along with frenzied flag waving patriotism. America is now nothing like what we imagined. Somehow discovering the fatally flawed human wizards behind the Congressional curtain has merged an agenda to demand proof of your identity at every interaction. Whether you recognize it or not, this is the cost of knowing the disturbed secrets of our government's dysfunction. They are coming to collect on national identity currency to balance an angle of power to the desired level. They do this because they have blown the public trusts they ordinarily draw from.
The American people are still who they always were. Our identity hasn't changed. The only difference here is that we know what our government is, by what it has done. The balance of power is off due to corruption: lies about going into Iraq and Afghan wars, torture, kangaroo courts, warrantless wiretapping, illegal prison system practices at Guantanamo Bay and expanded powers instituted by unconstitutional laws.
REFUSING AN IDENTITY TOLL
Programs attached to laws like the PATRIOT Act, the Real ID Act, and the Western Hemisphere Travel initiatives all contain language which expands the government's powers to demand identity and to track or limit your movement based on "official federal purposes . [4] Ordinarily, you have a right to demand accountability for actions which required your consent and finances to search you in these circumstances. Increased demand for identity comes down to demand of this currency in advance of any potential challenge or threat you may pose from entering federal buildings, banks, and airports where you paid to travel in advance. Challenging the requirements for identity when approached by local and federal authorities gets tricky. For example, I will call a random demand of identity by an authority figure an identity toll. An example of an identity toll is showing your ID to TSA at the airport in order to fly.
If you want to exercise right to refuse or challenge a random identity toll by local or federal authorities, the very least you must do is qualify the request for identity currency. For instance, ask them to self-identify. Write down what type of identity they asked for, get the first and last name of the administrator and/or a badge number. Then the exchange is even and a toll would balance.
The frequency of identity tolls will continue to escalate as long as the legal precedents are tolerated by citizens. 24 state governments recently refused the hefty demands on identity in the Real ID Act. These States punted the regulations along with the expensive price tag back to Washington for repeal or at the very least reconsideration. The Real ID Act to some is a paper zombie, appropriated for in name dormant until immigration policy is dealt with. However, it remains law and even recently received $60 million in a DHS appropriations bill. An amount which did not differ from 2008 for national identity developments. I venture a guess that Legislators behind the PASS ID Act are gambling on States who will file extensions to in order to give a relief quote to identity vendors waiting in the lobby.
This is proof citizens realized they reserve the right to deny the unqualified surrender of their identity capital to national security or governed agendas. It is always up to us determine the demand on something as personal as identity.
BURDEN OF PROOF
Among many agendas which have found federal legislative sponsorship is the push to require every citizen to submit biometric information as a requirement to travel, to work or to bank. This Summer Senator Chuck Schumer stated [5] an intent to sponsor legislation to mandate fingerprinting of every employee in order to work as part and parcel of the controversial E-Verify system. The rationale is that a simple birth certificate is not the best way to prove citizenship and may be unreliable. Birth certificates and other conventions to establish family record at birth are being interpreted as subjective identity. This is not good news for those who cannot or will not supply a bodily identifier. Fingerprints by themselves do not establish citizenship, even if they do establish personhood. The biometrics industry is playing into the manipulation of valid citizenship through an arbitrary demand on physical identity.
US citizens stand to lose a great deal more than mere convenience over the matter of national identity cards and use of biometrics. A question to clarify: what happens if a fingerprint does not establish my citizenship? Or my birth certificate? Or any other piece of documentation I present to work or attain goods and services? Well, I lose my recognized rights as a U.S. citizen. People without legitimate citizenship live in fear of losing their established lives and livelihoods in the event of a federal raid. One could be detained, assets seized for prolonged periods with or without counsel. If a citizen has no control over the documents which interpret their citizenship and their rights at birth, they may lose everything.
Conspicuous public private corporate lobbys tend to put marketing ahead of interpretations of citizenship or privacy. The laws are present to support the market for their technologies or gadgets. This is one contributing reason why repealing legislations, like Real ID, would get $60 million in taxpayer finance. Government contractors have the corner to capitalize on our free and established identity as long as the law will support it.
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