The Importance of a Second Slave Card
Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 3:48PM I remember the closest I ever came to feeling true travel freedom. It happened just a few hours after I felt true travel non-freedom. It was about five years ago and I had just spent the week having fun on the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel and I headed to the airport. I've been targeted before. Single male. Small carry-on bag. A one-way ticket and a real bad attitude with ANY government "officials".
They pulled me aside.
"What were you doing in Israel?" they asked.
"Just having fun," I replied.
"Where did you visit?"
"Just the beach and the discos in Tel Aviv," I replied, holding back my natural response which is to say, "What business is it of yours?"
"You didn't visit Bethlehem or any of our famous religious destinations?"
"Nah," I said. Back then I was more interested in meeting the local girls than the tourist attractions.
"And where you are going?"
"Zurich," I replied, starting to get irritated.
"What are you going to do there?" they prodded.
"Have fun." I said plainly.
That was enough of that. They sent me to the "back room". They "asked" me to disrobe down to my underwear and went through my things meticulously. They'd hold up a computer mouse and say, "And this? What is this?"
I'd look at them with complete disdain. "It's a computer mouse... you've never seen one before?" I'd chide.
After about an hour of that they ran all my stuff through a machine. As they did, sirens began to wail and all ten of the "inspectors" in the room literally ran for their lives. I laughed heartily at them as they ran past me... which probably made them even more scared... but I couldn't help it, they looked like scared fools. I was alone in the room for a moment when a very big guy in a track suit grabbed me, ran out of the room with me and shoved me into a corner in another room and began cracking his knuckles.
Well, I thought... I've never had this happen before. I prepared for what looked to be a terrible beating. But, then, the siren stopped and the people slowly returned. The big man in the track suit looked sad... apparently I wouldn't need to be beaten. My laptop wasn't a bomb after all.
They then told me that I could go but they were going to keep my laptop. I asked why? They said, they need to inspect if further. They said they would send it to me in Zurich in a few days. I was angry but there was nothing I could do at that point. So, I went to Zurich without my trusty laptop.
That's when I went from travel unfreedom to true travel freedom. As the passengers arrived in Zurich I noticed hardly anyone was stopping at the immigration desk to show their passport. Having just been through a bit of a frazzling experience I was a bit confused and did something I wouldn't normally do. I stopped at the immigration desk and looked at him. He made no motion for my passport. Still confused, I put my passport down on his desk.
He looked at me and laughed. I just shrugged my shoulders and gave him a look of, "You don't need my passport?"
I think mostly to end our uncomfortable moment, he flipped through my passport in less than a second and then tossed it back to me and waved me through.
It was the closest I've ever come to feeling true travel freedom and it felt amazing. Unfortunately, we live in a world more unfree than at any point in history and this is far from the norm. In fact, to travel anywhere you need permission from your masters. You need to apply for your slave card (passport).
And that is why, as strange as it sounds, it is more important than ever to have more than one slave card.
The reason is simple. The government that operates its crime operation in your region has total control over your movements. And, many people are finding out how easily that can be taken away.
CRIMINAL RECORDS
Governments have started to realize that one of the best ways to ensure that their tax slaves can't travel is to give them a criminal record. A National Longitudinal Survey of Youth recently stated that nearly 1/3 of all people in the US under 23 years old have been arrested for a "crime" more serious than a traffic violation.
Right there, nearly 1/3 of the people under the age of 23 will find it nearly impossible to travel outside of their home tax-farm... for life! How's that for slavery. And, we're not talking about a bunch of serial killers here. More than 50% of the US prison population are in there for possession of vegetation (they call them drugs... although the real dangerous drugs are sold by the pharmas). And a further 35% are in cages for "public-order crimes" such as not having a license to sell lemonade or dancing in public. Or for having more than two drinks and driving (DUI).
Making matters worse, once you have a criminal record it makes it nearly impossible to apply for a second slave card (passport). You will never be able to leave the country again and certainly will not be able to take up residence elsewhere once you've been branded as a "criminal".
That's why it is so important to apply for a second foreign passport BEFORE you find yourself like 1/3 of youths and branded globally as persona non grata for some minor offense. We've had to turn dozens of people away from our Dominican Republic passport program because of trivial criminal records. They now have no options for leaving their home country.
OWED TAXES OR DEBTS
Furthermore, the US Government has been making lots of noise about disallowing passport applications for those who owe taxes. And, the Government has no problems with handing out massive tax bills on a whim as this American family found out when they were handed a bill of $90,000 as punishment for their son selling $4,600 worth of bunnies "illegally". They were told if they didn't pay soon it would be raised to $4 million.
It would not be surprising, at all, if in the near future the US Government were to declare that all those behind on their student loans were banned from applying for a passport.
TRAVEL FREEDOM
In short, if you want to ensure travel freedom you should look to get a second passport right now... if for no other reason than it only takes a small arrest or having your son sell bunnies illegally and you may soon receive a bill you just cannot pay. At that point, you are stuck. Never able to travel outside your borders for life.
Your government registered financial advisor will never tell you about getting a second passport as a way to protect your freedom and your assets. At a time when your government is the biggest threat to your freedoms and assets it is best to think for yourself.
Oh, and as for my laptop? It never showed up in Zurich. It did show up at my father's house in Canada nearly a year later in pieces, however. How the Israeli Government knew my father's address in Canada, one can only guess.
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Reader Comments (18)
Forcibly living in a soviet-style commune overseen by unelected eco-zombies is just as bad in Argentina as it is in the US, is it not?
We're just one orchestrated Bank of International Settlements devaluation of a handful of currencies away from such things, are we not?
Or are we talking five to 10 years in the US, for implentation, and perhaps 30 or 40 years for developing countries? Where's the freedom longevity going to be? Where's the data to prove it? Ir is it all just throwing darts as a dartboard at this point?
Even speaking to morons like that is like combing your hair backwards. You are forced to enter their reality, whether you like it or not. It's at times like those that the stark reality of living in an asylum becomes apparent. All the loonies have a predilection to poke people. The pavlovian response to sirens you described probably produces a rush of endorphins in their "brains."
Stealing your laptop - because they can - is what many people would do, if there are no consequences.
There is a great lack of honesty, and willingness (or ability) to think logically, by the masses. 'Tis a great pity that so much potential of productivity and cooperation is unrealised.
Maybe we'll evolve into a civilised species some time. But, dammit. Evolution is normally such a slow process :)
I enjoyed your writing. Thanks very much.
Happy New Year!
Exactly on the point, Blade, forgiveness is easier to secure than permission! This is how real world works.
No, you don't need to take things either in the way TPTB want you to take it (get the permission first so we can always track you), nor in a drastic adventurist style (sailing somewhere in storm at night).
Be simple. Buy a tourist ticket and disappear. Even a country that would not give you a visa can be reached in this way pretty easily, unless it is something like North Korea. Just use the obvious means and remember the rule above, and, secondly, this one: You're gonna die pretty soon, - so don't worry about tallying up a pretty bad list on yourself. Your death will come sooner than it will take someone to unwind the list. We have been given no opportunity by our creator to act in time, - only in the moment.
As a person who is somewhat longer in the tooth than you and having spent most of my working life in the airline industry I may be able to help.
Attitude. Having the "right" attitude is the secret.
People who "think" are becoming aware that they are totally controlled by their governments and by the financial interests that control the governments. People are taught to be "useful" citizens which includes flag waving, fighting for "your country" and believing that paying tax is a noble thing to do.
As an individual you can spend a life time of hitting your head against a brick-wall by being belligerent to the "servants" of our "masters".
These "servants of our masters" are mostly low-intelligent and more indoctrinated than the average person. They inhabit all branches of control from the police through the different branches of government officialdom to the armed forces.
Here is the secret. Our masters and their servants WANT you to be belligerent. They NEED people to lose their tempers and "put up a fight". They WANT violent demonstrations.
This is the way they control the masses by being able to make it really difficult for the individual who shows a bad attitude. They can't do it to everyone as they are massively outnumbered. Don't play their game.
If you must travel then make it seem as though you really appreciate them and the work they do. Have the right attitude. Say yes but in your mind always plan to do NO when the opportunity arrises.
You mention Switzerland. In the second World war many of the occupied people who were just belligerent were shot whereas a few who looked friendly to their occupiers helped hundreds to escape to Switzerland.
There are many ways to undermine our present system which I will not go into now. The wrong attitude is not one of them.