https://stylman.substack.com/p/the-authentication-layer
or use https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-digital-id-hill-die-authentication-layer
The game has never been about what the government can do. It’s about the cost of doing it.
A friend and I got into it recently. He’s smart, freedom-minded, and totally gets the danger of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). Expiring money, programmable control, carbon budgets - he sees most of the expanding tyranny clearly. And yet he dismisses Digital ID as a distraction. When I try to make the case that digital ID is the gateway to the gulag in the metaverse, he demands I name ONE thing Digital ID gives the government that they can’t already do.
My answer: it enables CBDC.
Of course, governments have already encroached on our privacy and freedoms in ways our forefathers couldn’t have imagined. But even with the creeping surveillance state, the government can’t fully implement programmable currency without authenticated identity on every transaction. They’re components of the same beast. Digital ID is the authentication layer while CBDC is the currency that runs on top of it.
Stop Digital ID and you prevent CBDC from being built at any scale that matters.
The institutions driving this, the usual suspects including the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and the United Nations, are quite explicit about their intentions. Their own documentation spells it out: digital identity is a requirement for centralized digital currency. And in case the documents aren’t clear enough, Agustín Carstens, the former GM of the BIS couldn’t have been more explicit about their goals:
“A key difference with the CBDC is that central banks will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability, and also we will have the technology to enforce that.”
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Is the whole drivers license "real id" tied in to digital id?
Difital ID means: digital TWIN.
The TWIN becomes you. You do not exist IF that TWIN is not present. You do not speak, your twin speaks.
This is the digital representation of the "natural person".
You, as a man, are a person by your very nature, due to the faculties given to you by Nature's God. You can think and express your will: YES or NO. In Continental Europe, and by extension, through the scam played regarding the BC in US, you are given a corporate entity, a transmitting utility (U.C.C.). This is the natural person. It looks like the real one, because it is "identical with it" but it is not the same!!!!
Without it, in EU, you cannot trade, transfer, receive benefits, work, or whatever. Meaning, that the way the EU has implemented the ICCPR law: everyone shall be recognized everywhere as a person before the law, which is a DUTY of the government by default, has been turned upside down. And by means of the obligation of every man to always carry an identification (= declaration of putting yourself up as something else) and only to be able to transact IF you declare to be a corporate entity, a subject of ALL the laws on the books (which no-one can know 24/7/365), the switcheroo becomes visible.
The natural person, as a legal entity, becomes the TWIN, as a digital bucket. It is not alive. It is not now. It only contains a list of past transactions, and the ledger of how you went about it. It contains a reward/punishment system.
The ultimate gamification of life, where life has no value. Your digital twin, can easily be taken over by AI, or an AI steered robot.
This is what the Globalist really want. Kill you, and replace you with something you would not recognize as human.
Centralizing State Birth records...yes
False. We saw first hand that all this is already under centralised control when during Plandemic, when people got debanked and censored without a single investigation, warrant or boots on the ground.
The second amendment is where the Brake hits the Sand
That's a good point, BB. I suspect that digital ID would make the process easier and over a wider swath of the population, but a hell of a lot of damage was and still IS being done without it.
A corrupt Government will always act in corrupt manner against the people.
While a moral Government will only do it when they are sure they can get away with it.
Digital ID's must be tested on politicians to log every call/contact/conversation/transaction to see if anything improves first.
Here is a picture:
Until Now
Patriot Act passes. Greatest invasion of privacy.
Criminal Syndicates (Cabal connected) blatantly commit child trafficking, drug trafficking etc, all within the system, using social media/tech companies, banking system, crypto etc.
Governments have all the ability to stop these criminals, but instead enforce it on ordinary citizens.
White Hats clandestinely use surveillance under Patriot Act etc to keep track of these criminal syndicates to track the operations of the Cabal and to take them down.
Going Forward
No more clandestine surveillance.
But criminal syndicates still need to be stopped.
People's privacy needs to be protected.
Whats the only way? Transparent Digital ID with inbuilt privacy provisions with exceptions for crime.
Pendulum always needs to stop at the center for our freedom. Extremes are what keep us enslaved. In my own miniscule opinion, thats where we are headed:
Yes there will be digital ID
Yes it will be transparent
Yes it will protect privacy
Yes there will be exceptions for criminals
Warrants, investigations still needed.
Perfect? Hell no. Nothing is ever perfect.
Best compromise? Hell yes, only if people are fully aware and awake.
How do you stop this from becoming dystopian? The only way how - by We The People keeping both their eyes open, and not outsources their security for comfort.
Any tool can be used for good or evil.
I understand that the PLAN is to use Digital ID for good.
It'll be years before I believe it won't slip into being a set of chains.
We'll see how it goes.
Despite the Constitution and the word "Liberty" on our (now basically obsolete) coinage and "Freedom" as our national slogan, you know what happened to America over the past 250 years.
Just saying that people need to keep their eyes open won't do it.
The more centralized the Power is, the more likely it is to be corrupt. That's one reason we're fighting the Globalists.
Absolutely. Knowing that Digital ID is a tool and will be used exactly how the people allow it to be used, its much more productive for folks to focus on ensuring Privacy provisions from day one properly, instead of misdirecting the efforts towards stopping digital ID. I do believe this is our first test.
This is the same argument as gun control or banking rules or any other government overreach. We need to stop "bad guys" and "terrorists" by putting restrictions and surveilling 99% of the population for "your safety". By the government's own admission most freedom loving Americans are terrorists. Just like digital money, or anything digital really, we the lowly people outside the matrix have no way to audit what they're doing with this data. You can be sure it's not going to be in your best interest no matter how much trust us bro. Physical ID's, physical money, paper ballots.. you get the idea. At this time you can at least opt out of real ID driver's licenses and cash still exists.. but for how long. Stop helping the digital death of freedom along because "inevitable"
Not only that. ...
In case of the Extra-Judicial, Extra-Territorial ECB, the European Union Central Bank, they gain the power of Fiscal policy and the enforcement of it, meaning, they can simply take in a way, that saves them a lot of bureaucratic shit. The signal to noise ratio downstream is decreased.
Where you first had (even just hypothetically and decreasing in appearance in practice) human discretion in HOW and WHEN measures would be executed, part of the legal framework become smart contracts, which execute automatically.
This turns the practice upside down: execution first, then perhaps, a few questions may be asked. This is administrative tyranny.
Another part is, access to participation in society. All life becomes dependent upon the rules and prerequisites of a SYSTEM.
The SYSTEM becomes the arbiter. It cannot be reasoned with. This is the law. Transgressions mean expulsion and exclusion. This is the FEUDAL wet dream. It means that means of exchange become the expression of Life and gain an existence beyond man, totally divorced from man.
It means, human rights are no longer the basis upon and the lens through which measures and the creation of new laws are made.
I'm glad I'm soon to be 68... We have come to the point where technology has far outpaced our morals. We need to rip out all the surveillance crap by the roots.