J.A.I.L. News
Journal
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Los
Angeles,
California February 20,
2005
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How To Increase Identity
Theft
(By Ron Branson - J.A.I.L. CIC)
The establishment is shocked to witness the
explosion of idenity theft today. On a graph chart, the line is going straight
up. What shocks me is to observe how those behind the cause are shocked.
Or, perhaps maybe that is part of the plan. They want us to believe it is an
explosion that is out of the government's control.
Understanding this escalation mystery of
false I.D. is really figured out quite logically. The solution is a
simple matter of science, with the manifestation of cause and effect. In
other words, it is impossible for this phenomona not to take
transpire.
A man rushes into a doctors office with his
nose bleeding profusely asking the doctor to suppress the bleeding. The doctor
inquires into what caused such bleeding. The man says, "Everybody keeps
hitting me in the nose." So the doctor asks him why people would be hitting him
in the nose. He responds, "I don't know, doctor." The doctor asks him,
"Well, tell me what transpires just prior to people hitting him in the
nose." The man says, "Well, you see, I am training to be a prize-fighter, and so
I have been standing on the street corner practicing my punches
on pedestrians as they walk by."
People do not steal that which has no
value. Where identities have no value, people do not steal them. All any
establishment has to do to witness an over-the-top explosion in
identity theft, is to make false identity valuable.
For instance, if one's name happened to
be Goldstein, and they lived in Nazi Germany during Hitler's day, it
would be very understandable to figure out why false I.D. would get
out of hand, and they would want to get some false I.D. If there were no created
value in possessing false I.D., then why would anyone bother in getting
it?
Identity theft always runs in
direct proportion to the created need for it. It is turned on and off just
like a faucet. When governments do not demand I.D. from anyone, then nobody
cares about what I.D. they may be carrying. Contrariwise, when government
demands I.D. everywhere, people will automatically resort to stealing
someone's I.D. to possess.
When I was a child, and I don't think I was
unique, I used to act suspicious by making it appear I was hidding
something in my hand. For instance, I would quickly put my tightly
wadded fist behind my back. They other child would ask, "What is it you are
hidding behind your back? I would deny that I was hiding anything behind my
back. The more they wanted to know what I had, the more I would deny I had
anything, while zealously guarding my empty wadded hand. The more they
insisted I open my hand and show my hand, the more vigorously I would
guard my hand from prying fingers.
Now stealing someone's I.D. can never be
justified, and it is indeed a crime. But the natural laws of
self-preservation force some to compromise someone elses privacy by
using theirs. In other words, governments are fostering otherwise non-criminals
to become criminals by conducting identity theft in order to protect their own
privacy.
Government, in order to cover for
itself, would have us all to believe that all people stealing
identities do so in order to commit crimes upon another. But other than the
crime of the identity theft itself, most are simply trying to protect themselves
from an intruding govenment, and wish to live their lives in peace apart
from harrassing government.
In order to keep this cause and effect under
wraps, the government, with the help of the media, play up for public
consumption, stories where a person actually did steal another's identity for
use in a crime. These identity theft cases are very valuable to
government.
Yes, false identities are valuable.
Government have made them so. To reduce identity theft, all that needs to
be done is to reduce the value of false identities, and identity theft will
deminish tremendously. But that is just the point. Governments want to esculate
the value of false I.D., but not face the obvious result. The bottom
line is, government is in direct control of the demand for false identification.
They turn it on and off at will. They just do not "will" to turn
it off. The government's answer to the "problem" is to increase the
penalties for false I.D., making false I.D. more valuable, and thus creating
more identity theft.
-Ron Branson
ChoicePoint ID Theft Problem Worsens
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
February 17, 2005, 1:14 PM
The identity theft investigation involving database giant ChoicePoint, a
company that provides consumer information to insurance companies, got much larger late Wednesday.
The company disclosed an additional 110,000 people across the country
could have had their personal information compromised, bringing the total number of possible victims to 145,000. The new tally likely makes ChoicePoint's break-in the largest case of identity theft in history.
"ChoicePoint is actively engaged with local and federal law enforcement
agencies in the continuing investigation of a fraud committed against us," the company said in a statement, "through which a small number of very well organized criminals posed as legitimate companies to gain access to personal information about consumers."
The story, first revealed on MSNBC.com late Monday, originally estimated
that some 35,000 California residents were affected. Nearly 50 fake companies had been set up to access the information, through which data was compromised last fall.
Although the breach was discovered in October, law enforcement officials
prevented the company from disclosing it, even to the victims themselves.
"They gave a toll free number to call, but when I called, the person
just read from a script ... they said disclosing too many details may hurt an ongoing investigation," Elizabeth Rosen, a California resident who received one of the letters told MSNBC.
So far, approximately 750 instances of identity theft relating to the
compromised information have been found in California alone.
ChoicePoint says it has acted to prevent the problem again in the
future. "We are continually updating our processes and procedures to ensure the integrity of our systems and the information they contain," the company said.
Interesting, is lacking in this report is a
different report that states that ChoicePoint sold the private information to
others, thinking they were legitimate business merchants purchasing this
information.