RM NOT / R NUMBER! FREEING RMERICR FROM THE 5TRTE ID CLff/RE LUOLFE ft • REVISED AND EXPRNDED SECOND EDITION i Quotes from reviews for the first edition of Am A Not Number! I "Eleven chapters of humorous and dead serious consultation on removing your personal and private self from systems of tracking and categorization within the super corporate data bases, post-J. Edgar Hoover style. This is a book that we shouldn't have to read, but we are compelled by self-preservation to pick up and flip throughjust in case. Once the book is open it works like a fast acting poison to paralyze the part of the reader's brain that screams, 'Ignorance is bliss!' So be it. Welcome to the worl—d ofmetaconspiracies and multiple personality bank accounts. It doesn't stop here turning the page leads you on to another frontier ofprivacy invading techno-scientific marvels versus Joe Q. Public trying to use a pay telephone to wire money to Jane C. Doe on her way to Canada. What can I say except that you'll probably be on the FBI's list just for purchasing the dang book so why not make use of all the phone nu—mbers, addresses, lists of options and diagrams designed to set your future free." K. Castleman S., Brat #8. "Claire Wolfe's latest book on the campaign to give us the same kind of 'travel Am papers' Gestapo agents used to—demand on German trains, a work titled, I Not A Number! is now available." Vin Suprynowicz, Mountain Media, 8/26/98. "This book's title refers to the 1960s British television series, The Prisoner, in which the protagonist, secret agent Number Six, battles for his identity in post- resignation detention... This book is an excelle—nt wake-up call for those who would say, 'It can't happen here.' It already has." Bill Fargo, Colorado Liberty, 3/99. "The day is coming soon when anybody can have any information about you that they want. Already things are pretty weird... Wolfe explains in hair-raising detail the abuses contained in recent legislation and how they lead to the National ID Slave Nation... The day is not far off when the drivers' license becomes an internal passport, enclosing us all in a net ofsurveillance and control. Soon we will all be required to have biochips implanted in our bodies... As she so eloquently puts it, 'The federal government has taken your own money and is using it as a bludgeon t—o beat you into submission... to tempt your state legislature into selling its soul.' " Pat Hartman, Scene 19 Magazine STO AM NOT A NUMBER! I Freeing America from the ID State Revised and Expanded Second Edition by Claire Wolfe Loompanics Unlimited Port Townsend, Washington AUG 2 2003 Neither the author nor the publisher assumes any responsibilityfor the use or misuse ofinformation contained in this book. It is soldfor informationalpurposes only. Be Warned! AM NOT NUMBER! a I Freeing America from the ID State, Revised and Expanded Second Edition © 2003 by Claire Wolfe All rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be reproduced or stored in any form whatsoever without the prior written consent of the publisher. Reviews may quote briefpassages without the written consent of the publisher as long as proper credit is given. Published by: Loompanics Unlimited POBox 1197 WA Port Townsend, 98368 Loompanics Unlimited is a divisionofLoompanics Enterprises, Inc. Phone: 360-385-2230 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.loompanics.com CoverArtworkbyKnoll Gilbert ISBN 1-55950-232-0 Library ofCongress Card Catalog Number 2002113491 "I am not a number; I am a free man." Patrick McGoohan, "The Prisoner" (also known as Number Six) The Prisoner: "What do you want?" Number Two: "Information." The Prisoner: "You won't get it." Number Two: "By hook or by crook, we will." Opening dialog between The Prisoner and his chiefwarden, Number Two Number Two: "I'll kill you." The Prisoner: "I'll die." To the Fighters: Cyndee, Scott, Jackie, Linda and others whose names I maynever know. On the day you stop beingnice, tyrants should tremble. Acknowledgments To thank everyone who contributed to this book Bill Evans, for moral and other support and for his would be impossible. I would have to start by undying crusade against four-putting; thanking the entire Internet, that wild, global swirl of Todd Gillespie and Ed Wolfe, the rest ofthe Sacred information that is remaking the very concept of Bull Gang, on general principles and for the communities and nations. humor; Many ofthe ideas expressed here germinated from Mary Lou Seymour, Liberty Activist, for her the thousands of messages that have crossed my thoughts on organization and for giving my work a computer in the last few years. Where possible, I've forum; acknowledged individuals who've e-mailed ideas, Cyndee Parker, Scott McDonald, Linda Muller, and personal stories, and news articles. In other case—s, Jackie Juntti, who've done more than anyone to snippets of information have arrived uncredited alert Americans to the dangers of federal ID and cross-posted so many times it was impossible to tell tracking legislation; their origin. In still other cases, attitudes and ideas Mike Kemp, for taking a principled stand even when from the net have simply soaked through my it could have cost him everything, and for being a intellectual skin, becoming "mine" (and others') in good Idea Guy; the way that any culture imparts certain assumptions Deborah Marie Pulaski (1943-1997), for inspiration to its members. So, to the Internet, thankyou. andbravery; Thanks also to Charles Curley, who not only put Sam Hall, also for inspiration; up with a crazed writer, but who did it through Members of the Conspiracy for humor and general Thanksgiving, Bill ofRights Day, the anniversary of conniving, especially the Frog Proctologist, the the Boston Tea Party, Yule, Solstice, Hanukkah, Old Polish Woman, the Priest's Rowdy Wife, and Christmas, New Year, and the beginning of Mr. Justice; Ramadan. The book is done, Charles! Happy Chinese Cousin Michael Voth, scofflaw and poet, for being New Year and beyond! among the first to start building the Future And in no particular order, but with much Underground; gratitude, thanks to: Wendy McElroy, for pointers toward information on Vin Suprynowicz for his innovative thinking and his past & contemporary communities; generosity with ideas; Bob Kephart, for information on the Sovereign L. Neil Smith for sheer curmudgeonly inspiration; Society and offshore banks; Pat Henry, for living free and sharing his Jim Davidson, for information on several free nation experiences; also for thoughts on electronic projects; privacy and identity; Sunni Maravillosa, for her thoughts about children John Greenley, for his views on community and for and free families; manykindnesses; All the unshy folks who attended the November 1997 Patricia Neill, for sisterhood, laughter, otters, more meeting of the Wyoming Libertarian Party, with laughter, and monkeywrenches; particular thanks to Don Lobo Tiggre, Mary Sunderman, Dennis Brossman, Jim Brady, Ed Cassidy, and Dave Dawson; Gene Hahn, for the reminder about Fidonet; Intel96B, for writings on underground communica- tions; Eric Gray, for sharing experiences with alternate ID and more; Carl Alexander, for helping me claireify my ideas and for forging swords and cattle prods; The mysterious Badsheep; Woody Hassler, for the cute envelope trick; Sarah Thompson, who suggested the addition of a communications chapter; Internetizens Rick Rabbit, Steve Washam, Doc Memory, and Don Cline; Keith Justice, Steve Stroh, and the Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Corporation, for information on the technology and use of packet radio. And David Pinero, for information about scanners and open broadcasting. These people might not approve of the uses to which I have put their information, but they were most helpful in setting me straight on technical questions. Thanks to my editor Gia Cosindas and publish—er Mike Hoy, without whom there would be no book and without whom the entire world of publishing would be far less interesting. Thanks to the rest ofthe Loompanics gang, especially Gina, Jan, Audrey and everybody in the world's most efficient shipping department. Finally, extra thanks to Scott McDonald, Charles Curley, and Mike Kemp, each of whom reviewed a draft chapter ofthis book. Your help was invaluable, guys. Being mentioned in these acknowledgments does not imply that any of the above folks endorse the message of this book or share my assumptions or attitudes. Also, any errors anywhere in this work are purely mine, and not the fault ofany ofthe people who gave so generously oftheir time and their thoughts. Contents Author's Forward to the 2002 Edition i Introduction Toppling Ozymandias 1 Interlude Other Scenarios ofCollapse 5 Part I Rule and Resistance Chapter One The Orgy ofEnslavement 9 Chapter Two Life in ID State America 21 Chapter Three The Undocumented Citizen 39 Part II Free Nation America Chapter Four The Free American Community 59 Chapter Five Communications in the Free Community 75 Chapter Six Travel in the Free Community 93 Chapter Seven Finance and Trade in the Free Community 113 Chapter Eight Medical Care in the Free Community 133 Chapter Nine Work in the Free Community 145 Chapter Ten And a Free World ofOther Things 157 Part III Times of Trouble Chapter Eleven Free People, Violence and Alternatives 165 Afterword The Prisoner 179 Appendix Freedom Resources 181