http://www.disillusioned.org/youare/10.txt

10.txt [the 8 classifications of a resident or citizen]

	A hacker knows appropriate paranoia, and a hacker in the USA usually
has a constantly evolving mental database of what they hate about the US
Government, what can be done to fix it, and many hackers oppose the dominion
of the US media and/or Gov't.
	Die-hard hackers not only exercise their right to be paranoid, but
dream of the off-grid life: living in a community with friends and family,
with enough liquid assets to supply the appetite for technology -- removing
the Gov't from the equation by providing their own communal social security.
That is the only absolutely legitimate form of social security -- where a
human could not be criminalized or prejudged by profile and the false court
of public opinion that currently is dictated by money-driven medias; but
permitted to be what they want to be for their own purposes.
	It's not realistic to believe that a hacker, their friends, and their
family could all simultaneously liquidate their assets and move off to a
cheaper, more habitable locale and create a functional autonomous zone. Or,
better yet, they could become a legitimate village; one recognized by the
government that functions in trade locally.
	In fact, if it happened on a massive enough scale, the entire
defection would, in all probability, be regarded as a conspiratory terrorist
act meant to send the Dominion's economy into a downspin.  You could get the
US Military on your case in a hurry doing something like this.
	If people think immigration is a problem, and mass migration out of
the US is such a potential threat to national security, maybe the public
will start to ask more questions about exactly why social security exists
and start securing their lives.

	The constitution of our country and most corporations in the world
are tribal.  The chief is the head of power, but most decisions are made by
the council.
	North American tribes encountered by the noble forefathers of our
country saw it at work: The Chief was elected by all the adult women in the
tribe by unanimous agreement.  If the Chief ever failed them, they would be
banished from the tribe, and all the other tribes would quickly find out,
so the former Chief would die a slow, lonely death with no one to hunt with
and only his warrior instincts to keep him going.  Though physical death 
was not necessarily imminent, the shame of excommunication from tribal civ-
ilization is so great that Chiefs "died with honor before allowing them-
selves to ever be seen as a coward or a failure to their people."
	As our country casually adjusts from capitalism to a self-policing
totalitarian socialist empire, as the great conspiracy theorists lead us to
believe, some think it inevitable that innocent hobbyists will be illegally
imprisoned and unjustly treated to reinforce the mechanisms in the exec-
utive branch as a citizen enters the judicial system.  Not satisfactory.
	What happens to a civilian without awareness of their environment,
suffering from temporary acute amnesia?  Obstruction of Justice, if you
don't know or comprehend your right to an attorney, and are later observed 
to know the information and are accused before being asked to cooperate.
Any cybercriminologist should be prepared, but what about those innocent
hobbyists making fireworks or surveillance equipment or restoring antique
weapons -- who don't understand the regulation of deadly weapons, or, worse
yet: what happens to the people who abuse the safeguards in place for
victims of identity theft?  It makes it harder and harder for the innocent
civilians to live secure lives, because the reinforcement of security in 
the social system of the US is all hardwired down to identity.
	It is obvious that we are identified when we are born and we depend
on it to operate in society for the rest of our lives.  We're automatically
given social security numbers by the great record keepers.  The conspiracy
theorists lead us to believe as we go through life, we set off little flags
in some great mysterious database with certain activity linked to our 
identities.  Films like Enemy of the State or Changing Lanes make it seem 
as though any clever hacker should be able to tunnel through credit data-
bases and flip these switches or manipulate these records.. but that's not
reality.  In reality, credit bureaus are privatized and seperate from the
government with auditing systems in place to make sure that data isn't 
violated.  If only everyone weren't so careless with their identities.  You
never know who can memorize your ID number while seemingly looking for a
chapstick in your desk or bag.  You never know what they could do with it
if they had it.
	So back to the fantasy of living outside of the system - an F U to
the bureaucrats that want us to pay taxes on our income - it's not easy, 
but it's no huge hurdle either.  First, you need to see where you fall in 
the eye of the system.

		Tribal Classification
		An individual's state of nationality.

	1. Commoner - Traditional semi-patriotic acceptance of the 
	Democratic Nation of the United States of America.  With SSN & ID.

	2. Naturalized Citizen - A person who has purposefully relinquished
	citizenship to their birth country in favor of the US; or a person
	who has made a formal testament to gain citizenship by swearing
	loyalty to the US Government.  With or without SSN; must have ID.

	3. Dissident Citizen - A US resident with a SSN that openly opposes
	the state of government or society.

	4. Orphan or Sovereign - A person that exists in the system with or
	without social security:
		a. Is a natural born citizen who is a valid legal person in
		a US state or posession.
		b. Does not have identification but obliges with procedures
		to be identified.

	5. A nonperson	- One who has no ID and lives their lifespan with
	no social security.

	6. An unauthorized immigrant - One who was born outside of US 
	territory and enters illegally with or without valid ID.

	7. A defector - A nonperson who has purposely terminated their ID
	and does not use the social security system or has had their SSN
	terminated.

	8. An employee of the US Military.


	It is important to see where you fall, because you should know how
you are profiled for you own safety.  The first two categories have the 
most political relevance and power.  A category 3 citizen usually doesn't 
even show up at the polls, so by and large, they are mostly ignored.  The
government usually doesn't spend any resources on categories 5 and 7 
because they either never exist in the eye of the government or are best 
left alone.  However, if you are careless in the process of terminating
your identity, you can rouse a lot of people suspicions and get yourself 
stuck in an unwarranted profile real quickly, as a drug trafficker or money
launderer or otherwise criminal person.  It is difficult to go off-grid
without careful planning because people instinctively will think you are
trying to cover up something rather than protect yourself.
	If you are a victim of identity theft so terrible that your credit
record is utterly destroyed, you can terminate your SSN and get a new one. 
But you can only do this once whether or not you die.  Two SSN's per ID, 
forever and ever.  The government does not like to think identities are
disposable or exchangable, but all recordings are subject to interference.

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