Essay About Means Of Electronic Data Gathering And Such Invasion

100 Ways To Disappear
And Live Free
(C) 1972 Eden Press
Revised 1985
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INTRODUCTION
To “live free” means to be able to control your own life
and to avoid violence, or the threat of violence, by others.
What you do and how you do it will almost always determine
whether or not freedom will be yours. But YOU must take the
responsibility for creating your own freedom. No one,
especially the “government” will do it for you.
To “disappear” means to make it impossible for other
people to invade your personal world of freedom. Since most
of such invasion is by means of electronic data gathering and
cross-referencing, you must be able to short-circuit these
procedures effectively.
The most efficient method today is through the use of
what we call “alternate identification”. If the new names
and numbers you plug into the networks dont match
the old ones, you have not only “disappeared”, but have also
been “reborn”. And being reborn means leaving your past records
where they can no longer affect you and your lifestyle.
This “disappearing” of individuals is obviously discomforting
to institutions and governments determined to control
personal activities in the Land of the Free. To them
it appears downright seditious, since in reality their power
depends directly on the number of people they can control —
through computerized records, of course.
To those who actually “disappear”, however, the act is
one of tremendous personal liberation. Free men owe very
little to those who restrict opportunities on the basis of past
records. An extreme example, which nevertheless applies
to all of us, is this: When a person convicted of a felony
has served his full sentence, is he then “free”? Hardly.
What he will experience is really a LIFE SENTENCE of second-rate
opportunity.
And what happens to the convict, in practice, happens to
*everyone* who manages to have negative personal information
placed in his “records”. When it comes to the point of a
persons having to live with a condemning past and ever-
narrowing opportunities, it becomes easily understandable