Reply #27: Opening a bank account is the one that bothers me

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Banks are private businesses, after all. They ought to be allowed to take whatever customer they choose.

The terra scare and the ID theft scares are put forth to justify this. In a free country, we choose them by election to carry out the job of governing, once they give them the right to number us all and count us all and follow us throughout life, and to count us as nonexsitent if we don't come up with the ID, then we've turned our "rights" over to the government to grant them to us at its will.

There's something bigger and more dangerous about this than appears on the surface and it is very hard to explain or relate. There may be some illegal immigrants and some fraudulent claims, but is the harm that causes so bad we can't tolerate it to some length, to preserve the general philosophical basis of our freedom?

I'm afraid this will go down too easily with the sheeple; most of them just don't see what's wrong with it, and it's difficult and abstract to try to explain. Maybe the only hope is to find people who lived in countries with internal passports and publicize their descriptions of what it is like to illustrate precisely what it reflects.