Assignment vs. Possession

Possession denotes having, but assignment does not.

When asked whether you have something that you do not possess, nor desire to obtain, how would you respond? Most respond with the truth, "I don't have it."

If you were assigned club membership by a third party, but have never applied for membership, are you obligated to accept it or the credentials that they issued for you?

The answer is simply, "No!"

If asked, "Do you have a club ID?", the reasonable answer would be, "No, I don't."

This is the same response that someone that never applied for a Social Security Number (SSN) would give. However, there is an expectation and resolve with certain interrogators that regardless of your will NOT to obtain the SSN, you must have one if someone else has assigned it.

It's a given with most benighted legalists: a number was assigned, therefore you must have one.

Explaining this basic have-or-have-not status can bring on the most indignant response, or sheer disbelief and bewilderment. It's important that you know what you have and don't have, so that you can answer questions that are intended to entrap you. Whether or not your accuser acts like he has authority to coerce you, he does not.

Assign without Consent

The assignment of a Social Security Number to an individual without his consent violates his right to associate at will. It is no different than conscribing a stranger for volunteer work without his consent. Should a parent, guardian, or stranger request that a number be assigned to a minor, the minor has no obligation to accept it when he becomes an adult. If he chooses to accept the number, he must obtain it from whomever requested assignment, or from the Social Security Administration (SSA). If he chooses not to obtain the number, there is no contract between him, the requester, or the SSA. That's just the nature of contracts and free association. To suggest otherwise is promoting tyranny.

Coercion

Coercion can make someone conform to another's will but only for the time of enforcement. According to American Law, bullying is forbidden; bullies are criminals. Only as a result of due process and adjudication can one's status be redefined and liberty denied, but with mercy considered¹.

Possession without Identification

Therefore, whether or not an individual has an assigned Social Security number to a retirement account in their name is not an appropriate criteria to disallow one's religious convictions to refuse using it as an ID during license application.

Possession of a Social Security number does not preclude a religious conviction not to use it for identification, because the Social Security Administration had explicitly warned for decades that the Social Security Card was not to be used for identification purposes.

Possible reasons for possessing but not using the Social Security number:

Parent applied for it while the individual was a minor.
Parent used it to receive benefits for a minor.
Individual applied for it as a minor.
Individual obtained it prior to forming his or her religious opinion. See Carmichael

The Eight Ammendment to the United States Constitution

What is Assignment?

Assign means: to fix or specify in correspondence or relationship such as "to assign counsel to a defendant" or "to assign a value to the variable".¹

The ability to cast a moniker, number, symbol, status or description upon another person has no more power over that person than does a tracing of an artist's painting make it his original work. The act of another is not the act of the author. So it is when someone assigns you a number that you have no will to have.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assign

What is Possession?

When someone asks, "Do you have ...", it implies that you possess something that may or may not belong to you. It also has other connotations which can be quite disturbing.

to hold or maintain as a possession, privilege, or entitlement: "Do you maintain a SSN privilege or entitlement?"
to hold in one's use, service, regard, or at one's disposal: "Do you hold a SSN for your use?" or "Is the SSN at your disposal?"
to hold, include, or contain as a part or whole: "Do hold a SSN as part of yourself, perhaps your identity?"
to stand in a certain relationship to: "Do you stand in a certain relationship to the SSN?"
to acquire or get possession of : obtain "Did you obtain the SSN for your personal use?"
to be marked or characterized by (a quality, attribute, or faculty) "Are you marked by the SSN?"
to experience especially by submitting to, undergoing, or suffering "Do you have a SSN that causes suffering?"
to make the effort to perform (an action) or engage in (an activity) "Do you engage in SSN use?"
to hold in a position of disadvantage or certain defeat "Does the SSN have you in bondage?"

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/possession

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