{"article":{"id":13022,"heading":"Welcome to The Identity State","author":"anonymous","created":"2001-11-20 17:49:03","modified":"2005-08-15 00:43:34","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:43:34","article":"

Welcome to The Identity State

Convergence and Encirclement (Endocolonization)



The department of justice strategy mirrors the global strategy. The strategy involves the decentralization of

executive enforcement and information gathering while simultaneously providing a centralization of identity: a singular identity constructed from each apparatus contributing using a similar communication protocols. The

territorialization of all spaces is accomplished through pervasive decentralized mechanisms which delimit the individual as an identity already within the territorialized

space. If possible, existing networks of subjection are utilized: local territory based governments, currencies, banks, licenses, etc. are converted to identity based systems. This allows subversion and conversion without alarm, under the guise of bureaucratic efficiency and security. Identity is the exchange currency of the global

network of subjection.

The military\/police (and all other apparatus) can

share information and

construct the identity profile. By utilizing all

apparatuses, the

identity-based system becomes omnipresent. All

spaces, all services, all

communication, all travel, all weapons, all

computers, can be

territorialized through the connection of the

various identities which

already exist to a singular identity. All

identity-based platforms

converge to a singular identity-based platform.

Whether or not a national

ID is issued. Control is achieved through: the

objectification\/delimitation of an identity, the

access and power allowed

to that identity, and the subjectification of the

individual to the

constructed identity. (Even and especially if the

identity exists in the

future, as a plan \/ delimited possibility \/ coded

desire.) Local and

national governments provide the legal structure

of economic colonization

and its enforcement. But more importantly, each

local and national

government provides enrollment without choice.

The expansion of the global

identity state is accomplished by utilizing

existing state apparatus of

spatial control. No country is to harbor a

terrorist expands the global

reach of the identity apparatus with the threat

of military\/economic

retaliation. There is to be no space, no

territory, no piece of earth

exempted from subjection to the identity

apparatus.

The government is the enforcement arm, a

military\/police apparatus removed

of social service (except those services that

remain as apparatus of

subjection). The judicial and enforcement arms

are corrupted through the

subversion of the legislative branch. The

definition is subverted, and

therefore the distribution, through judgment and

execution, follows. A

meta-structure of world domination at all levels

is accomplished through a

global economic regulation. The subversion of

legislature is muscled in

under the benefits to the economy, implemented by

local executive

branches. Perhaps even a subversion of the

judicial system can be

accomplished through the implementation of global

tribunals for

terrorists. The civil and criminal court become

corporate and terrorist,

court and tribunal. Perhaps the civil judicial

system is needed to resolve

dispute between corporations. The governments

main function, however, is

to execute and enforce the laws subverted. In

other words, local executive

branches, from the dwindling social service

agencies to the expanding

gargantuan military\/police apparatus, do the

dirty work (under the

meta-threat of economic reprisal) while the

corporations sit in an

ethereal air, as if bloodless. Besides, native

policing is always most

effective, not to mention cost-effective.

But this military\/police convergence exposes and

precipitates a greater

convergence: that of the state and economy,

government and capitalism,

peace and war. All aspects of social life

everywhere converge under the

uniting principle of identity. This is not to say

that facets do not

remain. In fact, the illusion of separation

expands.

Identity is the consummation of the economic and

military and police and

all apparatus. It is BOTH the basis of exchange

and control. Economy and

state are revealed as one through their singular

currency, the

rationalized and delimited representation through

which access and

equivalence are constructed, and the individual

subjected: the identity.

The walls are falling. A massive convergence is

happening right before our

eyes. This is the establishment of international

law, international reach,

international enforcement of a

(not-so-)international economic

colonization. This expansion occurs not only

internationally, but across

all spectrums and mechanisms of social life.

Nothing is exempted from the

saturated omnipresent capitalist security state.

Endocolonization to the

nth. The military, without a stable enemy, turns

to the police function.

The convergence of military and police apparatus

is only the symptom

indicating that the enemy is no longer the other.

The enemy is no longer

beyond the borders. The enemy is omnipresent. The

enemy is us.



Prevention

Prevention and disruption is set as the goal, and

simultaneously (and by

no coincidence) exempted from due process. A

whole prevention system is

legitimized and operated pre-judicially.

Bypassing constitutional and

human rights under the guise of war. The judicial

system was based on

crimes committed, not crimes (supposedly) about

to be committed. Where is

the burden of proof, the beyond the shadow of a

reasonable doubt of

probability profiles? Prevention is a whole new

arena. The department of

justice is put on a war footing. The judicial

process is short-circuited.

Invisible search, seizure and surveillance,

detainment and indefinite

imprisonment, total information sharing and

identity profiling, and now...

war tribunals?

Deterrence turns to prevention. Deterrence was a

peace that occurred

through the infliction of the viral arms race on

a government. Prevention

is the infliction of the virus of identity onto a

population. The

population is told it has a virus, and that the

cure ( or vaccine?) is

within the delimitation of individual identity.

But it is identity that is

the virus inflicted. A trojan horse, a virus of

impotence sold as cure.

Before, prior, disrupt, deter, prevent... The

individual is no longer

judged on what one has done, but what one is

capable of doing, is probable

of doing. (A sort of speculative stock of

identities, probabilities being

based on world and market events and the

particular identity profile, or

groups or classes to which a profile belongs.)

All possibilities are

delimited. Individuals are limited to

rationalized identities and their

agglomeration.

Identity is the basis of equivalence, and

therefore of economics. The

identity is always the political body, relative

to, constructed within the

space of politics.

Socio-political identity becomes technological

identity. Technological

identity becomes physical identity. The final

stage of endocolonization,

after the apparatus has captured and constructed

the physical space

infrastructure of identity, is the capture of the

body, the subjection of

the individual to their representation. The

forced participation of the

body within a constant global mapping.

The individual is seduced to limit the self in

order to see the limits of

the self, to construct a body in order to see his

own body. Identity is

always the consumer identity, constructed within

the consumer environment.

Identity is the inhabitation of the secured

utopic space. Identity is

always the loss of freedom, of production, of

creation. Identity is the

inhabitation of a pre-determined self, the body

whose possibilities and

choices are structurally pre-defined, always

towards

production\/consumption. All choices of the

identity involve

commodification. The identity further determines

its own limits through

the consumption of limit-creation devices. The

identity operates as the

ideal pancapitalist organism. Furthering its own

limits, its own

efficiency, its own consumption. Further

channeling the actions of the

individual in line with predictable scripted

routes. Further enabling the

individual by further colonizing him. Further

subjecting the individual to

a manipulated and constructed representation.

Multiple bodies, multiple

vehicles, multiple identities, multiple belief

systems, multiple devices

are all allowed and encouraged with the

stipulation that all extensions

must link back to a centralized identity, a

centralized point of control,

namely the singular physical body and its

participation and acceptance of

the equivalence (economic) system.



The prison inverts

The anonymous are the excluded. The identified

body lives within the

utopic space. Predictable, surveilled, secure,

safe. The defined body,

identity, is projected back in a cannibalistic

self-consumption.

The body is only included, only admitted to this

utopic prison, through

its construction, through the definition of its

limits. A system of belief

whereby identity = truth = self. The identity,

the body, the vehicle is

defined by its limits: position, extents, access,

action are all

explicitly defined possibility scripts. With the

promise that strict

adhesion to the body, the mastering of its

piloting within its confines,

will result in its extension.

The strategy of prison inversion up to this point

had been that it is not

necessarily mandatory to colonize the physical

body per se, but that the

individual be seduced to extend the physical

body, revealing the position

and limits of both the bodily extension and the

linkage to and implication

of the position of the physical body. For

example, relatively low-tech

assemblages of body to bodily extensions forced

an exposure AND definition

of the physical body = identity through

licensure.



Identity

Identity = Visibility = Security = Access =

Exchange = Economy

Identity = Visibility

Consumers have been suckered into buying

platforms for consumption, why

not platforms for subjectification to identity

representations and

security access mechanisms also? The user is

seduced to personalize the

commodity by commodifying the self.

Identity = Security

Both sides of the equation are sold. Each and

every individual is a

threat. All extensions, all representations of

identity are combined to

(re)make, (re)present the self in the profile,

the singular identity.

This singular identity IS the self. The singular

identity is used in all

aspects of social life. All aspects are recorded,

profiled, added, and

Predicted. This is the colonization of space and

the body is forced to

follow identity, the plan.

Identity is the plan, masquerading as the map.

Identity = Access

Access is all that is needed for exchange. The

identity is the basis of

exchange, via access. The definition of limits,

identity, is the mode of

exchange. All elements of social space can be

controlled via

identity-based access. The personal check, the

credit card, are

preliminary steps away from the monetary unit to

identity-based exchange.

And we line up for it. On the one hand,

(re)presentations are soldback to

us as commodities, as extensions, as enablers, as

personalization. On the

other, they are forced on us as responsibilities,

rights, privileges.

Identity theft will become a prime target of

enforcement

(deterrence\/disruption\/punishment). As the

identity-based system becomes

more omnipresent, identity theft will be less

tolerated, and all the more

necessary for those unwilling to accept the

identity received (earned).

Identity = Exchange

Credit card bills, phone records, internet logs,

building security logs,

criminal records, driving records, school

records, medical records,

psychiatric records, work records, organizational

records, photographs,

gps tracking, cell phone tracking, shoe size,

fingerprint, and dna are all

now (or soon to be)available to construct the

singular identity. (The

fuhrer has called for the construction of a

common communication

platform.) The rise of the security state is

synonymous with the identity

economy. The identity IS the exchange. Identity

is no mere abstraction or

representation. Identity is the very construction

on which economy is

based.

Identity = Economy

The constructed identity is our greatest

subjection. It is the invisible

line with which we delimit self and other, ours

and theirs. It is the

basis of all economies, from currency to

authorship. It is the means by

which we tie strings to our gifts of writing,

programming, etc. in order

to extend the identity through visibility. (Read

the GPL for a good

example of a non-currency identity based system

that creates an economy of

exchange of identity visibility.) There are

numerous forms of exchange, be

it visibility of the constructed self through

mapping, or access to a

utopic space, or protection of an interior.

Identity is the form of

exchange and serves as the basis of all economy.

Privacy

Privacy will not be negated. It will be

manipulated. Privacy has two

important functions to play in the identity

economy.

One, privacy allows the further delimitation of

the identity and the

individuals subjection to the constructed

identity. Privacy is used to

legitimize the specific definition identity

access to protect private

data, commodities, etc. through the creation of a

delimited identity that

is in fact the revealment of these data through

their definition, and

through backdoor access. Usually look for

rhetoric explaining how the

further tying of the self to representation

through authentication will

provide greater privacy. Look for key escrows,

for digital certificates

and signatures, for hardware identification

devices, for commerce

encryption (since gov. already has access to

banks and credit cards

anyway). All in all, expect to hear a lot more in

the media about the

dangers of identity theft. One is told they have

an identity to steal

which must be protected. Never mind that one did

not create the identity,

nor does one have any real control the

representation. Thus, one signs up

for further subjectification to and extension of

identity services under a

belief that one is protecting the self. The

representation of the self is

substituted for the self, and the self is

subjected to it, for fear of

losing the (represented) self.

Two, privacy allows an opacity of identity-based

functions and power

structures. This is most important, as a true

transparency would imply a

right to know and a second guessing of the

identity-based power structure.

Instead, through the construction of massive

privacy discrepancies, power

structures are shielded from the gaze reflected

back. This occurs through

various specific devices, but for instance,

members of a corporation hide

behind a filter that funnels certain aspects back

to their identity, while

hiding the visibility of their identity to public

eyes. Military\/police

rely on a more direct method of constructing

identity profiles, while

disallowing the viewing of (relevant parts of)

the profiles, and

disallowing visibility or profiling of either

members of the

military\/police apparatus, or the apparatus

itself. The power structures

endeavor to conceal the structure of their

mechanisms.



Anonymity and the non-differentiated,

non-delimited group (mass)

Privacy, in the above manipulated form, is

desirable to the identity-based

apparatus. Anonymity will be portrayed as a

separate issue. This first

round has focussed mainly on the foreigner as

terrorist, yet the machine

is being set up to surveill all. Many of the

civil liberties that have

fallen for the non-citizen will soon fall for the

citizen, as interior

terrorism will become a greater threat, as the

vice clampens. How long

till the protesters = terrorists? In the media,

they have already been

cast as a loose network of anarchists. The

network suits the

security\/identity state well, as network really

implies nothing more than

communication while preserving the idea of

identity. Actual group-work,

actual (hidden) structure and unilateral action,

as occurs in sectors of

government or corporations, are negated. The

invisibility shields are

denied to the network. Anonymous actions and

works are declared cowardly

despite the fact that such action\/work eliminates

the possibility of

economic gain to the individuals who created the

work. In fact, anonymous

works refuse participation in the economy of

works by negating the basis

of economy: the linkage to the singular identity.

It is precisely for this

reason that anonymous action is called cowardly.

Non-conformity to the

economic basis is seen as a threat, as the

purpose of the anonymous action

does not (directly, at least) translate into any

economical gain, and

worse, cannot be translated into an equivalence

to base an economy, as the

definition of the singular is lost. Is it one or

many? Is there an

original? How can one quantify and build

equivalence without the basic

unit of identity? Is economy and distribution

possible without identity?

How can one assure quality, make a particular

pre-judgment, without the

authors name \/ brand name? Is hierarchy and

division possible without

identity? Anonymous action and\/or group action

threaten the identity

economy and the security state.

Once we have lost anonymity, we have lost the

war.

Anonymous systems are being destroyed. Capitalism

results in the

privatization of all appropriated systems.

Privatization has, as the base

of its economy, the singular individual to whom

privileges are or are not

dispensed (access). In the endocolonized world,

access replaces exchange.

The destruction of anonymous systems is

legitimized as the destruction of

local space-based distribution. This is not to

say that such systems do

not still exist. They do and they prosper. (The

gated community is only in

its infantile stages.) But space or area-based

distribution has its

inherent limits, namely geo-political limits and

relative stasis

(non-dynamic, non-fluid). Identity-based

distribution systems have no such

limits. The technological identity-based

distribution system can

distribute to any point on the globe.

Identity-based distribution systems

allows the apparent transversal of the

limitations of the state,

simultaneously inhabiting and extending the

global capitalist economy.

Identity-based technological freedom implies and

necessitates complete and

total territorialization of all aspects, of all

spaces. Empowerment =

extension of the power structure. The individual

sets up virtual agents

for collection\/distribution. The individual

remotely accesses and controls

the flow of capital. The subjectification of the

individual to the economy

through machinic enslavement is consummated with

the construction of the

global identity-based distribution system. The

controlling mechanism of

identity-based distribution is access. All

systems everywhere link back to

a centralized identity. There is no escape.





Excerpts

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http:\/\/www.politechbot.com\/p-02792.html

Ashcrofts speech on opening NSA, CIA databases to

police Attorney General

John Ashcroft spoke today to an \"Anti-Terrorism

Coordinators Conference\"

organized by the Executive Office for United

States Attorneys

(http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/usao\/eousa\/). An excerpt

from Ashcrofts prepared

remarks:

..The attacks of September 11 have redefined the

mission of the Department

of Justice. Defending our nation and its citizens

against terrorist

attacks is now our first and overriding priority.

... We are engaged in an

aggressive arrest and detention campaign of law

breakers with a single

objective: to get terrorists off the street

before they can harm more

Americans. ... Last week I announced a sweeping

wartime reorganization of

the Department of Justice that places a high

priority on cooperation and

coordination between Washington and state and

local prosecutors and law

enforcement. ... We will re-focus our resources

on front-line positions.

The war on terrorism will be fought not in

Washington but in the field, by

agents, prosecutors, investigators and analysts.

...Our new mission

requires not just a new structure but a new

approach to our jobs. In

evaluating the merits of a prosecution, Assistant

United States Attorneys

must consider more than the scale of the case but

the likelihood that the

prosecution may disrupt and dismantle terrorist

networks. In the changed

world in which we now live, a seemingly routine

prosecution of an

immigration violation may be much more important

than a million-dollar

fraud case, because the immigration prosecution

or minor_ identity_ theft_

case_ may_ remove_ a_ terrorist_ operative_ from_

our_ community. This is

not a randomly chosen example, but a new

subjectification to identity.

It is critical that we begin to view our

responsibilities as justice

officials in the fight against terrorism from the

standpoint of the

culture_ as_ a_ whole_, not_ just_ the_

individual_ case the cultural

whole is evoked to legitimize the loss of

individual liberties

at hand Anti-Terrorism Task Force Coordinators

will be responsible for

ensuring that federal, state, and local law

enforcement are communicating

regularly regarding potential terrorist activity.

You will be responsible,

as well, for insuring that the information

highway is not a one-way

street. Just as federal officials must have

access to information

collected at the state and local level, Task

Force members from state and

local police must have access to appropriate

information available to

federal agencies. The battle against terrorism

will require an

unprecedented level of cooperation among all

members of the law

enforcement community and beyond. ... Prevention_

of_ terrorist_ attacks_

- - even_ at_ the_ expense_ of_ prosecution -

must be our priority. Note

that prevention and disruption is being set up as

the goal, and

simultaneously being exempted frome due process.

A whole prevention system

is being legitimized and operated pre-judicially.

The judicial system was

based on crimes committed, not crimes

(supposedly) about to be committed.

Where is the burden of proof, the beyond the

shadow of a reasonable doubt

of probability profiles? Prevention is a whole

new arena.

.. To facilitate this communication, today I am

issuing a directive to all

United States Attorneys mandating that they begin

immediately to develop

communications protocols for sharing information

with state and local

leaders. ... As you know, I have just directed

the Task Forces to

coordinate the interviews_ of_ individuals who we

believe may have

information helpful to our investigative or

prevention efforts. By

necessity, many, if not most, of these interviews

will be conducted by

members of state and local law enforcement. Task

Force Coordinators will

be responsible for collecting interview reports

so that the information

they contain may be thoroughly_ analyzed. i.e.

profile

We recognize that this will be a time-consuming

and complicated task, but

it is critical that we expand our knowledge of

terrorist networks

operating within the United States. ... The

recently passed anti-terrorism

legislation-the USA Patriot Act of 2001--

accomplished much to improve the

effectiveness of law enforcements efforts to

intercept and stop

terrorists. In particular, the new law gives us

an expanded ability to

share information between and within the law

enforcement and intelligence

communities. Our ability to share information is

only as good as our

capacity_ to_ identify useful intelligence.

Therefore, today I am issuing

a second directive to provide training to

federal, state and local law

enforcement in the use of all available resources

in the war on terrorism,

including training on foreign intelligence, how

to identify it and with

whom to share it. ..Due to the high priority the

Department places on

disrupting terrorist activity, I am requesting

that this report be

submitted...



- ---

http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2001\/11\/20011113-27.html1

Military Order

Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain

Non-Citizens in the War Against

Terrorism

..Given the danger to the safety of the United

States and the nature of

international terrorism, and to the extent

provided by and under this

order, I find consistent with section 836 of

title 10, United States Code,

that it is not practicable to apply in military

commissions under this

order the principles of law and the rules of

evidence generally recognized

in the trial of criminal cases in the United

States district courts.

(a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to

--

(1) authorize the disclosure of state secrets to

any person not otherwise

authorized to have access to them

(2) limit the authority of the President as

Commander in Chief of the

Armed Forces or the power of the President to

grant reprieves and pardons

or

(3) limit the lawful authority of the Secretary

of Defense, any military

commander, or any other officer or agent of the

United States or of any

State to detain or try any person who is not an

individual subject to this

order.

(b) With respect to any individual subject to

this order --

(1) military tribunals shall have exclusive

jurisdiction with respect to

offenses by the individual and

(2) the individual shall not be privileged to

seek any remedy or maintain

any proceeding, directly or indirectly, or to

have any such remedy or

proceeding sought on the individuals behalf, in

(i) any court of the

United States, or any State thereof, (ii) any

court of any foreign nation,

or (iii) any international tribunal.



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http:\/\/www.access.gpo.gov\/su_docs\/aces\/fr-cont.html

Executive Order 13234 of November 9, 2001

Presidential Task Force on Citizen Preparedness

in the War on Terrorism



Sec. 3. Mission. The Task Force shall identify,

review, and recommend

appropriate means by which the American public

can:

(a) prepare in their homes, neighborhoods,

schools, places of worship,

workplaces, and public places for the potential

consequences of any

possible terrorist attacks within the United

States and

(b) volunteer to assist or otherwise support

State and local public health

and safety officials and others engaged in the

effort to prevent, prepare

for, and respond to any possible terrorist

attacks within the United

States.

legitimizing and extending identity state to

pervade all aspects of social

life, and encourage as many eyes as possible to

assure compliance to

identity



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http:\/\/www.house.gov\/ways_means\/socsec\/107cong\/ss-10wit.htm

LIST OF WITNESSES TO APPEAR BEFORE

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

SUBCOMMITTEE ON SOCIAL SECURITY AND

COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL SERVICES

SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS

ON PREVENTING IDENTITY THEFT BY TERRORISTS AND

CRIMINALS



THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2001 - BEGINNING AT 10:00

A.M.

2128 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING



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http:\/\/www.epic.org\/privacy\/terrorism\/bop_rule.html

National Security Prevention of Acts of Violence

and Terrorism Final Rule

Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons

...Monitoring of Communications With Attorneys To

Deter Acts of

Terrorism...



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And finally, lest we forget that anonymity is, at

least currently, still a

constitutional right.

http:\/\/www.epic.org\/free_speech\/mcintyre.html

McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission

The freedom to publish anonymously extends beyond

the literary realm. In

Talley, the Court held that the First Amendment

protects the distribution

of unsigned handbills urging readers to boycott

certain Los Angeles

merchants who were allegedly engaging in

discrimina- tory employment

practices. 362 U. S. 60. Writing for the Court,

Justice Black noted that

- -persecuted groups and sects from time to time

throughout history have

been able to criticize oppressive practices and

laws either anonymously or

not at all.- Id., at 64. Justice Black recalled

Englands abusive press

licensing laws and seditious libel prosecutions,

and he reminded us that

even the arguments favoring the ratification of

the Constitution advanced

in the Federalist Papers were published under

fictitious names..... Under

our Constitution, anonymous pamphleteering is not

a pernicious, fraudulent

practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy

and of dissent. Anonymity

is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

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