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Tyranny of One, Tyranny of AllThat Damnable NumberWritten by Darrell Anderson. I recall my first personal exposure to that damnable number. I was 17 years of age, maybe 16, and I applied for a short-term summer job. General labor — digging ditches. I was instructed to apply for a socialist security number to approve the job application. Didn’t matter that I would have been earning only a few hundred bucks. What confused me at that ripe young age was how I could be compelled against my will to provide for my own retirement. Of course, I did not then understand that I was actually being tricked into supporting other people who had decided to stop working and would no longer provide for their own sustenance and livelihood. Arguably, I was being tricked into voluntary servitude. Ignoring that point, I nonetheless had the right idea that I was being compelled into action against my will. I never did understand how one human could claim standing to compel another into unwilling action when there is no evidence of trespass. I still don’t several decades later. As a youth I was a typical skinny toothpick and an easy target for bullies. Most of the time I lived smart and avoided the nutcases, but the law of averages prevented me from avoiding all bullies. Bullying is intentional trespass. From those experiences I knew that bullying was wrong, and could not be justified by any rhyme or reason. Likewise, I did not understand why I was being forced to provide for my own retirement. The withholding of taxes I more or less accepted because at that young age I thought “everybody pays taxes,” but at that time I did not realize that social security withholdings were taxes too. If I had been taught that those withholdings were actually taxes, I likely would have been more confused. At that time and for many years thereafter I did not recognize that many of my ideas and thoughts were anarchist in nature. More astonishing, through children, I recognize that the seeds of anarchism are embedded in all humans. All humans are natural anarchists. All humans instinctively recognize that ruling other humans is wrong and futile. Yet, through the machinations of statist school propaganda and other peculiar human institutions, such natural foundations are quashed. People naturally know to be free, yet this desire is purposely invalidated. Of course, that damnable number has become a nightmare. Not only do tyrannical statist nutcases use the number for tracking purposes, but criminals (non-statist type criminals, that is) use the number to provide easy access to credit cards, bank accounts, etc. As have many other people, I have spent time reading fiat statutory nonsense regulating the use of that damnable number. If necessary I could bamboozle people by reciting citations and statutes. Several years ago I struggled with a typical pompous corporate attorney (is that a triple redundancy?) who demanded I disclose a number before he would provide his company the go-ahead to approve a small contract I had negotiated with one of the company employees. After several exchanges, a few heated, I finally got the attorney to admit that no statute required me to disclose a number, that disclosure was merely “company policy.” Ah! So with at least one talking head I had confirmed what I had long suspected and studied. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. One time, for a urinalysis drug test that I needed to apply for a contract to enter one company’s job site, the medical technician asked for “your social security number.” I said I didn’t have one; and I spoke the truth because I do not own any such number. The number is owned by the Social Security Administration, not me. That number is not my property. The technician paused and asked to use a driver’s license number. No problem. A few minutes later the technician asked, “You don’t have a social security number or you do not want to disclose one?” I smiled and responded, “Does that matter? You aren’t getting a number one way or another.” The technician just smiled. Of course, the entire flawed premise of that damnable number is under the color of law statists believe they can compel people to financially support other people. If you can’t figure out what is flawed about that premise then do some soul searching and a lot of reading. If you do some soul searching and reading and still don’t see the flaw, then let me ask you a single question. What gives you the standing to compel me to support you? From where did you obtain this magical power — the Wizard of Oz? Finis. |
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