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Quotes from reviews for the first edition of
Am A
Not Number!
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"Eleven chapters of humorous and dead serious consultation on removing your
personal and private self from systems of tracking and categorization within the
super corporate data bases, post-J. Edgar Hoover style. This is a book that we
shouldn't have to read, but we are compelled by self-preservation to pick up and
flip throughjust in case. Once the book is open it works like a fast acting poison to
paralyze the part of the reader's brain that screams, 'Ignorance is bliss!' So be it.
Welcome to the worl—d ofmetaconspiracies and multiple personality bank accounts.
It doesn't stop here turning the page leads you on to another frontier ofprivacy
invading techno-scientific marvels versus Joe Q. Public trying to use a pay
telephone to wire money to Jane C. Doe on her way to Canada. What can I say
except that you'll probably be on the FBI's list just for purchasing the dang book
so why not make use of all the phone nu—mbers, addresses, lists of options and
diagrams designed to set your future free." K. Castleman S., Brat #8.
"Claire Wolfe's latest book on the campaign to give us the same kind of 'travel
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papers' Gestapo agents used to—demand on German trains, a work titled, I Not
A Number! is now available." Vin Suprynowicz, Mountain Media, 8/26/98.
"This book's title refers to the 1960s British television series, The Prisoner, in
which the protagonist, secret agent Number Six, battles for his identity in post-
resignation detention... This book is an excelle—nt wake-up call for those who
would say, 'It can't happen here.' It already has." Bill Fargo, Colorado Liberty,
3/99.
"The day is coming soon when anybody can have any information about you that
they want. Already things are pretty weird... Wolfe explains in hair-raising detail
the abuses contained in recent legislation and how they lead to the National ID
Slave Nation... The day is not far off when the drivers' license becomes an
internal passport, enclosing us all in a net ofsurveillance and control. Soon we will
all be required to have biochips implanted in our bodies... As she so eloquently
puts it, 'The federal government has taken your own money and is using it as a
bludgeon t—o beat you into submission... to tempt your state legislature into selling
its soul.' " Pat Hartman, Scene 19 Magazine
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AM NOT A NUMBER!
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Freeing America from the ID State
Revised and Expanded Second Edition
by Claire Wolfe
Loompanics Unlimited
Port Townsend, Washington
AUG
2 2003
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"I am not a number;
I am a free man."
Patrick McGoohan, "The Prisoner" (also known as Number Six)
The Prisoner: "What do you want?"
Number Two: "Information."
The Prisoner: "You won't get it."
Number Two: "By hook or by crook, we will."
Opening dialog between The Prisoner and his chiefwarden, Number Two
Number Two: "I'll kill you."
The Prisoner: "I'll die."
To the Fighters:
Cyndee, Scott, Jackie, Linda
and others whose names I maynever know.
On the day you stop beingnice, tyrants should tremble.
Acknowledgments
To thank everyone who contributed to this book Bill Evans, for moral and other support and for his
would be impossible. I would have to start by undying crusade against four-putting;
thanking the entire Internet, that wild, global swirl of Todd Gillespie and Ed Wolfe, the rest ofthe Sacred
information that is remaking the very concept of Bull Gang, on general principles and for the
communities and nations. humor;
Many ofthe ideas expressed here germinated from Mary Lou Seymour, Liberty Activist, for her
the thousands of messages that have crossed my thoughts on organization and for giving my work a
computer in the last few years. Where possible, I've forum;
acknowledged individuals who've e-mailed ideas, Cyndee Parker, Scott McDonald, Linda Muller, and
personal stories, and news articles. In other case—s, Jackie Juntti, who've done more than anyone to
snippets of information have arrived uncredited alert Americans to the dangers of federal ID and
cross-posted so many times it was impossible to tell tracking legislation;
their origin. In still other cases, attitudes and ideas Mike Kemp, for taking a principled stand even when
from the net have simply soaked through my it could have cost him everything, and for being a
intellectual skin, becoming "mine" (and others') in good Idea Guy;
the way that any culture imparts certain assumptions Deborah Marie Pulaski (1943-1997), for inspiration
to its members. So, to the Internet, thankyou. andbravery;
Thanks also to Charles Curley, who not only put Sam Hall, also for inspiration;
up with a crazed writer, but who did it through Members of the Conspiracy for humor and general
Thanksgiving, Bill ofRights Day, the anniversary of conniving, especially the Frog Proctologist, the
the Boston Tea Party, Yule, Solstice, Hanukkah, Old Polish Woman, the Priest's Rowdy Wife, and
Christmas, New Year, and the beginning of Mr. Justice;
Ramadan. The book is done, Charles! Happy Chinese Cousin Michael Voth, scofflaw and poet, for being
New Year and beyond! among the first to start building the Future
And in no particular order, but with much Underground;
gratitude, thanks to: Wendy McElroy, for pointers toward information on
Vin Suprynowicz for his innovative thinking and his past & contemporary communities;
generosity with ideas; Bob Kephart, for information on the Sovereign
L. Neil Smith for sheer curmudgeonly inspiration; Society and offshore banks;
Pat Henry, for living free and sharing his Jim Davidson, for information on several free nation
experiences; also for thoughts on electronic projects;
privacy and identity; Sunni Maravillosa, for her thoughts about children
John Greenley, for his views on community and for and free families;
manykindnesses; All the unshy folks who attended the November 1997
Patricia Neill, for sisterhood, laughter, otters, more meeting of the Wyoming Libertarian Party, with
laughter, and monkeywrenches; particular thanks to Don Lobo Tiggre, Mary
Sunderman, Dennis Brossman, Jim Brady, Ed
Cassidy, and Dave Dawson;
Gene Hahn, for the reminder about Fidonet;
Intel96B, for writings on underground communica-
tions;
Eric Gray, for sharing experiences with alternate ID
and more;
Carl Alexander, for helping me claireify my ideas
and for forging swords and cattle prods;
The mysterious Badsheep;
Woody Hassler, for the cute envelope trick;
Sarah Thompson, who suggested the addition of a
communications chapter;
Internetizens Rick Rabbit, Steve Washam, Doc
Memory, and Don Cline;
Keith Justice, Steve Stroh, and the Tucson Amateur
Packet Radio Corporation, for information on the
technology and use of packet radio. And David
Pinero, for information about scanners and open
broadcasting. These people might not approve of
the uses to which I have put their information, but
they were most helpful in setting me straight on
technical questions.
Thanks to my editor Gia Cosindas and publish—er
Mike Hoy, without whom there would be no book
and without whom the entire world of publishing
would be far less interesting. Thanks to the rest ofthe
Loompanics gang, especially Gina, Jan, Audrey and
everybody in the world's most efficient shipping
department.
Finally, extra thanks to Scott McDonald, Charles
Curley, and Mike Kemp, each of whom reviewed a
draft chapter ofthis book. Your help was invaluable,
guys.
Being mentioned in these acknowledgments does
not imply that any of the above folks endorse the
message of this book or share my assumptions or
attitudes.
Also, any errors anywhere in this work are purely
mine, and not the fault ofany ofthe people who gave
so generously oftheir time and their thoughts.
Contents
Author's Forward to the 2002 Edition i
Introduction
Toppling Ozymandias
1
Interlude
Other Scenarios ofCollapse 5
Part
I
Rule and Resistance
Chapter One
The Orgy ofEnslavement 9
Chapter Two
Life in ID State America 21
Chapter Three
The Undocumented Citizen 39
Part
II
Free Nation America
Chapter Four
The Free American Community 59
Chapter Five
Communications in the Free Community 75
Chapter Six
Travel in the Free Community 93
Chapter Seven
Finance and Trade in the Free Community 113
Chapter Eight
Medical Care in the Free Community 133
Chapter Nine
Work in the Free Community 145
Chapter Ten
And a Free World ofOther Things 157
Part
III
Times of Trouble
Chapter Eleven
Free People, Violence and Alternatives 165
Afterword
The Prisoner 179
Appendix
Freedom Resources 181
