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Ten Principles of
Christian Separatism
8.
Practice Frugality and Anonymity
Frugality
Unreasonable spending makes wastrels of us all. The individual who works and produces is thereby impoverished. The individual's community is impoverished by the impoverishment of the individual.
Most unreasonable spending is caused by the sin of materialism, which is encouraged by the media and the culture it creates. Hopefully, as we separate ourselves from that destructive culture, frugality will again become a natural virtue among our people.
Anonymity
To postpone persecution, we must advantage ourselves like any small creature against a more powerful opponent. We must escape its grasp - eXile accomplishes this. Then, we must hide.
Hiding in this modern era does not require physical sequestration, although ultimately it may come to that. Initially, we must hide from computers. [1]
Ironically, it is the computer that will bring the eXile message into Christian homes. But it is also the computer from which we must hide.
The way to hide from computers is to become anonymous (Without a name) and anumerate (Without a number). A different approach is to become pseudonymous (different name) or pseudonumerate (different number).
As for names, citizens have a common law right to change one's name at will, as long as the purpose is not to defraud. [2]
Our corrupt federal government has attempted to replace people's names with numbers. Of course, we refer to the "Social Security Number."
The SSN is now so important to the federal government and the New World Order that hospitals are required to assign them at the very moment of birth. But there is still no law that unconditionally requires you to have a Social Security Number. And in the eXile, the next generation of Christians will have no "Social Security Number." Lacking such, we may conceal our identities and the strength of our numbers from the federal government.
How not to have the hospital assign your baby a social security number? You have these options. [3]
2. Give birth at a hospital under an assumed name. Negotiate the hospital's charge for a live birth and pay in advance. Using an assumed name after paying in advance means you have no intent to defraud the hospital.
3. Give birth at the hospital, but don't name the baby there. Don't fill out and submit the application for a birth certificate. The hospital may name the baby "Baby Smith," but this won't be the child's legal name (eventually, of course, the government will claim the power to name children over their parents). Lacking a legal name, your child won't have a social security number. Keep the hospital bill as proof of birth. Later, you may get a birth or baptismal certificate, which is often acceptable as proof of birth.
Lacking Social Security numbers, Christians in eXile will not receive Social Security benefits.
Before any of you recoil in horror, remember that millions of Americans managed to live comfortably well into advanced age before 1932, that is, before Social Security was even a gleam in the eye of its socialist father - Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Yes, Social Security payments to individuals are inherently socialist. The government promulgated a fiction - another word for a lie - that such payments are financed merely by the forced investment of the individual's prior earnings. As almost everyone knows, in practice, social security payments to many individuals represent far more income than could be generated from that individuals forced investment. The surplusage can be supplied only by coercing value from other individuals or debasing the currency.
To recognize Social Security for what it is - the first federal welfare program, the first time the federal government taxed one citizen to support another, is for the Christian, to oppose it. We now know it to be the first instance of one of government's most appealing lies. "I will take care of you if you and your neighbor surrender some of your freedom." Remember, as did our Founding Fathers, that every penny of tax takes a pound of freedom.
So when we reject the Social Security Number, we achieve some anonymity and some freedom. And when we reject the blandishments that accompany it, we render ourselves more independent, more principled and more free.
Family, Community and Christian Charity will take the place of federal payments to the infirm. The virtues of Clan and Church will render far more assistance than the federal government's meagre allowance.
God gave Adam the power to name, but now the government claims that power for itself.
Since you will not have a SSN, you may not be able to have a bank account or a driver's license. If you wish, you may hoard some "dollars" printed by the federal reserve. You will be taxed mightily on every "dollar" you make.
Real wealth is property that supports you and allows you to live. Real wealth is land, and buildings, and timber and farm tools, and livestock, and crops. Real wealth is the tools of a trade, which allow you to create valuable things that you and other people need.
Invest in real wealth, and you will never want for the necessities of life. You shall want for the things "dollars" can buy, but these are things you do not need.
As for driver's licenses, you should know that if you drive without giving the government your SSN and biometric identifier, you may get a traffic ticket. All the more important to get to know you local town's judge. See, "Politics is Local."
If you have an SSN, rid yourself of it. Do not engage in activities where you might be compelled to report a SSN. Avoid linking yourself to any numbers, not just SSNs. This would include Credit Card Numbers, Drivers License Numbers, etc.
Avoid creating biometric identifiers about yourself. Do not give out your fingerprints or photographs of yourself. Be aware that digital photos will shortly become the standard photograph, replacing film photography. Digital photographs allow for computerized identification of individuals based on facial geometry and other high tech biometric procedures. Digital photos can be copied and transmitted effortlessly and instantly by computers to any other computer. Digital photos and other biometric identifiers rob you of your anonymity.
Finally, avoid making any kind of record. Eventually, all records will be computerized and linked to central computers. Records of books and videos you borrow or rent will be computerized. Right now, any court can subpoena those records. Soon, just like driver's licenses are now, those records will be available by computer at the request of any police officer, or guidance counselor, or other government agent. And soon, such information will be routinely sold to banks, corporations and insurance companies.
Once a record exists, it can be inspected, copied and distributed without your permission.
The only way to protect your anonymity is to stop creating records.
The coin of economic independence is two sided. Productivity is one side. Frugality is the other.
In eXile, Christians must pursue anonymity. We will eventually be persecuted by the government. The question is whether the government will self-destruct before it succeeds in destroying us.
1. Give birth at home, where you may use a midwife. [4] Later, you may apply for a birth certificate on that basis.
Originally, Social Security Cards carried the message "Not for identification." When authorizing "Social Security Account Numbers" in the 1930's, Congress required those words to appear on every card as a reminder that the SSN would never be used for identification. Now the words constitute yet another government lie because the primary purpose of the SSN has become government identification. First, of course, the number was used for income tax return identification. Then, it was required in order to participate in any financial transaction, even opening a bank account. In 1996, Congress passed the "Drivers Privacy Protection Act," (and the name, of course, is a lie). The Act requires every State to collect SSN's for driver's licenses. The Act further, and more insidiously, requires every State to link the SSN to a "biometric identifier," either a fingerprint, digital photo, or the like. The effect will be a national, computerized identification system based on SSN's and unique biologically based identification characteristics. On January 12, our corrupt Supreme Court held the Act to be a
Constitutional exercise of federal power. [5]
Footnotes:
[1] The best way to hide is to become "invisible". "How to be Invisible", by J.J. Luna, St. Martin's Press, 2000 is an innovative and practical guide to privacy.
[2] 57 American Jurisprudence 2d "Name" section 11.
[3] Claire Wolfe, World Net Daily, August 12, 1999.
[4] Consult e.g., http://www.gamidwifery.org.
[5] See, "Big Brother on the Way," at http://www.networkusa.org