In The Pass

Christian Libertarian Oriented Commentary on Current Events

Saturday, July 16, 2005

The rising cost of ID

Five people have been charged and hundreds more may be charged with stealing and forging social security numbers belonging to CHILDREN. ...
Investigators checked Utah state record and found that approximately 18-hundred social security numbers, belonging to children under the age of 13, may have been compromised.


So says KSL out of SLC...

Now could have thought that the rising requirements for ID would have driven people to steal the SSNs of 1800 children? Anybody?

If you premise that accurate identification is the key to terrorism and crime, then you will end up where the Germans were circa 1939, the Soviets were in the height of the cold war, and the Japanese are today. Each experienced a higher and higher demand for control while the counterfeiters got better at creating and stealing what they needed.

To think that people would not adapt their behavior to either make money or improve their lifestyle seems more than a bit naive. So I have to believe that the people increasing the market for these thefts, via raising the market value of the IDs, do so with the full knowledge of what they do. So is their goal the total control of everyone? The end of privacy?

While I confess to not knowing the hearts of those pushing this agenda, I can judge the fruit of their labor. Their labor is creating a more and more restrictive society, where privacy is rapidly becoming an abstract notion having no basis in reality.

Examining the trends in government/society today; the odds are that Christianity will be outlawed. Biblical prophesy says that Christianity will be outlawed. While that may have the sense of inevitability, there is no eternal profit for any believing Christian to help advance that evil agenda.