by Liberty Uncensored Newspaper
As I’ve said many times before…
Rights are not subject to the opinions of politicians or anyone else. They are given by God and nature alone. The affirmation of Rights in the union was the culmination of the work many Liberty loving individuals and societies over millennium. This development was never meant to be validated by papers, biometric scans, or permission slips issued by bureaucrats. It was grounded in the inherent liberty of the individual and the nation born of and borne within an environment that supported liberty as a standard.
Antithetical to those principles is the advent of any intrusion into the virtues and intents of those great ideals. The REAL ID is most certainly an intrusion. It presumes state jurisdiction over identity itself, conditioning movement, commerce, and even the act of standing in public on carrying a government-approved credential. This is not innovation. It is a resurrection and furtherance of totalitarian control techniques. Techniques that have been improved upon over the centuries to become less perceivable for what they truly are.
Joseph Stalin (true name: Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი in Georgian) created the propiska, (прописка) literally, "registration" or "recording of residence," internal passport system, which ruled citizens’ lives. It effectually limited where they could live or work and enforced ideological compliance, by forcing people to identify their residence legally, and being accountable to presence at that location.1 It also was the precursor to the Gulag’s (Main Directorate of Camps (Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, abbreviated GULAG), in such that it made it possible to easily identify the Christian populations, amongst other Bolshevik/Soviet State enemies, and force them into transport and slavery, and eventual death.
Mao’s hukou, (户口, hùkǒu) literally, "household register" or "household account," register system tied people to assigned locales, controlling access to food, work, and education. The nature of this control mirrors the REAL ID control over access to airports2, federal buildings, and what will assuredly be eventually, everyday commerce.3 The nationwide verification grid that can easily be adapted for behavioral or political profiling starts with the acceptance of the ID under the premise of meretricious benefits. A pig in lipstick. A smiling knife. A poisoned chalice. Marketed as administrative modernization, the regulatory scaffolding of the REAL ID enables future legislation that can weaponize the ID system against individuals for non-criminal political or ideological reasons. This tyranny does not come as a swift blow but a subjugation, peonage and chattel slavery by attrition.
This slow implementation works by creating a soft form of confinement. Movement permission becomes contingent on government-approved identification. By tying legal employment, banking, and even healthcare access to an ID system, the state coerces participation in a government-controlled economic structure. Without the ID, economic potential is strangled. Accepting the REAL ID is equivalent to accepting State primacy over personal and societal liberty.
The Constitution is a charter of powers granted by the people to their government. All powers not expressly delegated therein remain with the people, whose liberty is the default condition and whose rights are not dependent upon that document for their existence.
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