There are virtually no unique transactions and no secrets anywhere.

Secrets were once lovely, delicious things shared between intimates.


Every time you put your check or credit card forward to purchase something, you link any number of bank and credit accounts with other numbered accounts.


How many people have seen your social security (ss) number and your driver's license (dl) number? I have both of these on a neon sign that flashes in my front yard, 24-7-365 1/4 to prove that I have nothing to hide.

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Don't waste your breath telling people who demand proof of your identity that your social security number is only for use with your social security account and, therefore, private. It simply doesn't compute. In these hard economic times, how many applicants are going to withhold their ss number on those countless job applications looked at by ever so many people, not all of whom are scrupulous?


Why does the dentist have to have your social security number even if you are paying by cash or credit card? Just try refusing to divulge it to the dentist's office personnel and see what happens.

Here is an example of what I mean by linking transactions. If you are buying groceries, the supermarket has a numbered, dated, and timed transaction ticket called your receipt. Their computer keeps a copy and links the number on your check or credit card with that particular transaction. It tells them that you or the person who stole your identification were in a particular place at a particular time buying the data listed items.


These records can be scanned for peculiarities. Why is an 8o-ish female in a household of one buying Pampers and fifteen sharp knives along with broccoli and Geritol?

Each and every purchase is a unique moment in time, because it will never happen exactly that way again, at least not in this dimension. It is an almost sacred moment except it is usually so humdrum.

Additionally, if you have some kind of store savers' card that logs your transactions to date, gives you the current sale price, or adds bonus points for your purchases, that card also has a unique transaction number linked to the store computer, which computer also houses your credit and banking information.

These stores are linked to large data selling companies which have your credit report, all medical information about you that could be scavenged, and various and sundry information that might shock the pants off you, such as what your neighbors told the FBI about your lawn care and whether you park your car in the garage according to the neighborhood association's bylaws and other really important indicators of your homeland security status.


Are you considering stealing your neighbor's stimulus check and depositing it in your account? That stimulus check is marked with a unique number linked to the recipient's name on the front of the check. Your bank will mark your deposit with a number linking the rightful owner of the check to your bank account. You can probably guess that when the rightful owner makes inquiry via the stimulus payment center which sees that the stimulous check has been cashed at a bank, which bank also has both a unique number according to the bank's name and a subnumber of the particular branch of that bank, they will find your bank account number linked to that unique check.


Plus, your photo is taken every time y9ou use the ATM machine and every time you step up to the bank teller's window. What did you say your name was again?

I'm not sure if you can escape this process by using cash at the store, but if you think the cashier didn't notice the 40 pounds of rat poison you bought, think again. She or he probably pushed a silent alarm button with her toe while smiling and bagging it up. Smile for your snapshot.

Consider too, that in many places there is also a surveillance video tape running, taking pictures of each and every customer to add to the data file of your unique, once-in-a-lifetime transaction. This is almost as neat as a wedding video, except you will never likely view it unless you blow up a major government building, heaven forbid.


Just recently I received an offer to link my grocery store surveillance card to my cell phone number. Naturally, I snapped up the offer immediately. Now when I 'm out of town, my grocery market can check on my whereabouts while they are logging the list of my groceries so I can get my twenty minutes of free cell time.

Still and all, there are moments in time that cannot be made pedestrian, however much publicity has shone upon it, moments when new snow falls on old snow and every snowflake is a unique individual self. How very unlike the synchronized and identical flash of a neon sign, such as the one in my yard.

Your chances of getting away with anything are virtually nil, but for those adventurers out there, you never know.