The Voluntaryist

Trademark of Totalitarianism: Opposing Government Enumeration


Table of Contents


Claire Wolfe, Introduction: Where Are We Headed?


Section I: History of government ID and citizen-tracking


Jeremy Bentham & Luis Reyna Almandos, Men Ahead of Their Times

James C. Scott, John Tehranian, and Jeremy Mathias, Government Surnames: The Production of Legal Identities

Jim Fussell, Facilitating Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Group Classification on National ID Cards

Carl Watner, A Monopoly on the Means of Identification: Evolution of the Compulsory State Birth and Death Certificate in the United States

Carl Watner, The Precursor of National Identification Cards in the U.S.: Drivers Licenses and Vehicle Registration in Historical Perspective

Nicolas Werth, The Russian Card: The Propiska

Bob Moore, The Case of the Dutch Bureaucracy: Population Control and Population Registers in the Netherlands During World War II

C. H. Rolph, The English: Identity Cards

Carl Watner, A History of the Census: Count Me Out!


Section II: Contemporary Issues


Charlotte Twight, Watching You: Systematic Surveillance of Ordinary Americans

Claire Wolfe, National ID: Our Line in the Sand

Simon Davies, The Australia Card: Campaign of Opposition

Pamela Sankar, State Power and Record-keeping

Robert Ellis Smith, The Number in America: 1935 - 2000

Gregory Dicum, A Study In Green: My National I.D. Card, Your Civil Liberties

Hans Sherrer, Rule By Punch Cards: How Computers are a Menace to Liberty

Carl Watner, Oppression Makes Wise Men Mad: Why I Oppose Government Enumeration


Section III: The Future and Resistance


Calvin Kytle, Gandhi in South Africa: The Story of Satyagraha

Rose Wilder Lane, Root, Hog, or Die: Give Me Liberty

Scott McDonald, Resist Enumeration

Patricia Neill, National I.D. for All Public Servants

Claire Wolfe, An American Refusenik

Blood Donor K, Red Tape

Anonymous, Why I Refuse to be Numbered

Carl Watner, Slavery and National I.D.: A Portent o Things to Come

Sunni Maravillosa, ID Without Big Brother

Claire Wolfe & Aaron Zelman, Epilogue: National ID and the Police State

Carl Watner, Select and Annotated Bibliography


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