National Identification Systems: Essays in Opposition – TOC
The long awaited book!
“This is more than a book about national ID. It is about all forms of government enumeration, from the census of antiquity, to government naming practices, fingerprinting, social security numbers, and drivers licenses, to cutting-edge biometric technologies such as DNA, iris scans, or subcutaneous microchips capable of allowing those in charge to know where we are twenty-four hours a day via global positioning satellites. This book looks at the big picture of national ID: what it is, how it has developed, and how it might potentially change our society. It is also about those who have chosen to resist or oppose national ID schemes – from Gandhi’s satyagraha campaign in South Africa in 1906 to those Americans who refuse to be counted or carry a government number. These “Essays in Opposition” are intended to honor those whose consciences and principles do not allow them to “roll over and acquiesce.”…
“Never before has there been a book devoted to the idea [of proving] that the logical outcome of government involvement in these areas (from government birth certificates to governmental databases and surveillance) is a 1984-style population control. That is why national ID systems have been called a ‘trademark of totalitarianism.”
—From “The Preface”
Table of Contents:
Carl Watner, Preface
Section I: History of government ID and citizen-tracking
- Jeremy Bentham & Luis Reyna Almandos, Men Ahead of Their Times
- James C. Scott, John Tehranian, and Jeremy Mathias, Government Surnames and Legal Identities
- Jim Fussell, Genocide and Group Classification on National ID Cards
- Carl Watner,The Compulsory Birth & Death Certificate in the United States
- Pamela Sankar, A National Fingerprint System for the United States
- Carl Watner, Drivers Licenses and Vehicle Registration in Historical Perspective
- Nicolas Werth, The Russian Card: The Propiska
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- Bob Moore, Population Registers in the Netherlands During World War II
- C. H. Rolph, The English Identity Card
- Carl Watner, A History of the Census
Section II: Contemporary Issues
- Charlotte Twight, Systematic Surveillance of Ordinary Americans
- Claire Wolfe, National ID: Our Line in the Sand
- Simon Davies, The Australia Card: Campaign of Opposition
- Robert Ellis Smith, The Social Security Number in America: 1935 – 2000
- Gregory Dicum, My National I.D. Card Is A Threat To Your Civil Liberties
- Hans Sherrer, How Computers Are A Menace to Liberty
- Carl Watner, Why I Oppose Government Enumeration
Section III: The Future and Resistance
- Calvin Kytle, Gandhi’s Story in South Africa
- Rose Wilder Lane, Give Me Liberty
- Scott McDonald, Resist Enumeration
- Patricia Neill, National I.D. for All Public Servants
- Claire Wolfe, An American Refusenik
- Blood Donor K, Red Tape
- Anonymous, Why I Refuse to Be Numbered
- Carl Watner, Slavery and National ID
- Sunni Maravillosa, ID Without Big Brother
- Claire Wolfe & Aaron Zelman, Epilogue: National ID and the Police State
- Carl Watner, For Further Reading
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National Identification Systems: Essays in Opposition
Edited by Carl Watner with Wendy McElroy; 308 pages, paperback.
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