Church Trials

Connecticut: No Mark, No Access

Choose your ID with, or without.

September 11th and 42 USC 666 Section 13 appear to have been two of the major events that have enabled Stateside regimes to begin pilot programs to introduce a free-will acceptance of a mark in exchange for access to places that an American citizen might frequent.

Whether it's a star, a stoic portrait of someone you must revere, a numerical series, an encrypted 3D code, or a smiley face, the public is being conditioned to accept a mark of some type.

With the mark, you can theoretically travel via federally controlled transportation or visit federal facilities and government events that your taxes have provided for all American citizens.

But when was a citizen's right to redress government in person removed? When was a curfew placed upon public facilities? Are we banned from air travel? Is the government at war with its people?

Let's say that you choose not to take the mark, and opt for having your ID stamped with "Not for Federal Identification". OK, this is hypothetical, because no state would issue such an awkward and stigmatizing means of identification post Nazi Germany. Seriously. Imagine an ID that can't be used as an ID, such as the Social Security Card. Preposterous.

So what sanctions will there be without the mark? The State purports that you will just have to produce your papers whenever you want public access. Easy. Just keep your papers on hand at all times. It has been done before. Is this too much to ask? ... and there's the repeated frisking, and x-rays, and pat-downs, and groping. Is this still too much to ask?

Without the mark, find your own way.

There is another side to this hypothetical coin that we are not being shown. You are marked by having no mark. Your citizenship has just been revoked, as if you were in a third world nation without bribes to attain services.

Imagine walking on the very soil where you were born as a free person, but being branded as a serf with limited mobility, or as an outlaw. ¹

No need to rush.

So it's really here? That depends what you mean by "it". And by the way, the part about stamping your ID to make you stand out like an alien, it wasn't really hypothetical, sorry.

Connecticut came up with its own solution to terrorism and ID theft: SelectCTid. Note the term 'select' is synonymous with "chosen". ³ Anyone that displays an ID card with that gold star of approval is considered 'The Chosen'; an elect minion that can frequent the halls of government, like those of power and influence.

To put a friendly face on this consider also that the State notified you 5 years in advance that you can still buy and sell, in the future, if you have taken the mark by then. ²

Now if you have any sense left to paddle through this mire, Connecticut assures the ID connoisseur that s/he will be protected somehow by having a special mark on the State ID.

Is this shamanism? Do they expect us to believe that some amulet with a symbol on it will keep the specter of ID theft at bay? Really ... since when do the heels [sic] of the past step on the toes of the future?

So you now have choices: A handsome GOLD STAR depicting that you are of the elite, or, a nasty "stamp" that says you are an Enemy of the State.

Yes, tough choice already.

• Do I assert my sovereign right to be who and what I am, an American Citizen, or do I play school boy to get that gold star of approval?
• Do I choose liberty, or safety?
• Do I want to blend in, or mark myself as an outlaw?
• Do I puppy-up to the treat, or snivel for scraps?
• Do I really want to sign up for hard times ahead?

Which ID card would you choose to present to a potential employer, a banker, or especially to an unknown police officer that pulls you over after dark?

Well, if you can't pass an easy quiz, then what happens during Finals?

References:

1. Outlaw: A criminal such as Al Capone, or a citizen cast from society for his loyalty and libertarian beliefs, such as Robin Hood.
2. "The difference could be extra screening under a proposed federal program slated to go into effect in 2017 for airports and federal buildings and also use for possible commercial transactions." SelectCtID splash page, Connecticut DMV website.
3. ... tainted by elitism, sanctioning, hardship, termination, etc.
   Examples of usage of the term "select":
   Definition - Carefully choose as being the best or most suitable.
   Sticker on a carefully chosen cut of meat.
   Employees at Ameritech were given notices that they were "selected" for early retirement (termination).
   Selected - Signifying those chosen for Nazi eradication of undesirables.