Grounded: Millionaire John Gilmore and Privacy in the US

Grounded: Millionaire John Gilmore stays close to home while making a point about privacy: "Gilmore is asking just how much citizens are giving up when they hand their driver's licenses to a third party, in this case an airline, where it is put into a database they cannot see, to meet a law that, as it turns out, they are not allowed to read."

The object of the objection to showing one's ID is that the request to show it comes from either a false authority, or an authority that will not show its face, and is therefore not open to inspection. More closed government action to watch the population. This happens without discussion. Most don't know enough to care. Those who might are disorganized and unconnected. The Beast is the system, not any of the individuals in it, however mulish or conniving some might be. We must examine our systems in the daylight. We must rewrite the bad ones to protect ourselves against them. Long before machines can rise to enslave future human populations, those populations and their machines will be enslaved by simple paper constructs: the corporation;the self-perpetuating and self-protecting law. Like some abstract parasite they are introduced by some half-witted lawyer and his wealthy handlers for some short-term gain, and then left to graze on the commons of the peoples freedoms, to the woe of all.