May 13, 2006 journal, 666 on target and collaborated by Ben Graydon in Times Examiner weekly newspaper that most people should read but do not. Most everything here I have either said or tried to say in my daily journal. I proudly quote Ben's accurate description. "It lay before him, the biggest and most consequential choice of his life. He could accept and just blend in with the vast majority of his neighbors ... or he could say no and face consequences that surely would end in his death. He had held out for a long time, but his garden was depleted and buying more seeds-a federal crime now-was not possible. It seemed he had no choice left but to comply. He had seen it coming, frankly, with all of the government induced hype about "identity theft". Go into the post office and there was a poster warning about it. News media carried stories about people who had lost credit cards and how it had cost them thousands of dollars. Hollywood, of course, followed suit with the crime made a subject of all of the weekly crime dramas. But, he had never seen identity theft himself. Sure, lose your wallet, and you'll have to scramble to cancel all the credit card accounts-if you were still so foolish as to carry the things-and, of course, you could pretty well write off the cash in the wallet. Replacing the driver's license would be a bit of a hassle. But the way the things are done these days, it would be virtually impossible to replace the photo on the DL with some thiefs likeness. But then the federal government had seen in the state driver's license the vehicle to institute the national ID card, and it had all done gone downhill from there. The Social Security number had never been-according anyway, to the act that created it-intended to be used as a national identification number. In fact, The SSA legally prohibited its use for anything other than purposes directly related to payments into ones "Social Security account" and receipt of benefits from same. But along the way the so-called "Patriot Act" after the government staged events of 9*1*1, and all such protections of law went out the window. Open any kind of new account, get a passport or a driver's license, and a Social Security number was "required". Ask the clerk why and, with a stern look, he will always cite the ethereal "Patriot Act"-which no body had ever read and no provision of which could they cite that require them to ask for your SSN, but it caused most serfs to comply quickly and with only a shrug. Some States went even further by requiring a voter registration card in order to get a driver's license. And nobody but "domestic ter*ro*rists" dared question the idea of getting a driver's license itself based on some foolish reading of the laws and definitions of "driver", etc. Soon the SSN and DL, were not enough. There were other needs as well. “The bird flu pandemic" scare-which never really amounted to anything but fear based hype aimed at getting citizens to line up for their pharmaceutical company-enriching flu shots, manu-factured a need for government and hospital workers to have ready access to everybody's medical records, including vaccinations, disease history and exposure to other carriers of various diseases. The hurricanes of 2005, followed up by the even greater "natural" 2006 disasters, had presented the additional problem of unidentified bodies found in public places. There had to be a way to identify, not so much the bodies, but the medical risk incurred by exposure to them. The new technology was the solution. The “chip", as it was called, was subcutaneous radio implant that carried all of the needed data, personal identification and medical records, plus financial information so that no external payment methods were needed. It essentially created a means whereby one never again needs to worry about leaving home without his credit cards. In fact, it created a cashless society. Whereas first a smaller version of the chip had been implanted in all paper money, “ cont.