Don’t get your baby a social security number
Some habits become so engrained and routine that the majority of the public never thinks about questioning them. One of these is the use of our so-called “social security” numbers.
Many people today are permeated with a number of false beliefs and notions, such as “my child must be vaccinated by the “hospital authorities” at birth, or “the authorities issue social security number at birth”.
These falsehoods are almost subliminally reinforced throughout our lives, but this wide array of falsehoods can be broken Let’s start by dismantling one of the principle canards. Government or corporate employees aren’t ‘authorities’, they are servants. Government works for you, and corporations, if you choose to engage them, participate in consensual commerece. Constitutional scholar and Libertarian Party presidential candidate Michael Badnarik covers the concepts of government servants in his easy-to-read book GOOD TO BE KING. Chapter two is available for free online, it’s titled RIGHTS VS. PRIVILEGES.
On to the social security number: ssa.gov states
- Must my child have a Social Security number?
- No. Getting a Social Security number for your newborn is voluntary. But, it is a good idea to get a number when your child is born. You can apply for a Social Security number for your baby when you apply for your baby’s birth certificate. The state agency that issues birth certificates will share your child’s information with us and we will mail the Social Security card to you. If you wait to apply at a Social Security office, you must show us proof of your child’s U.S. citizenship, age and identity, as well as proof of your own identity. We must verify your child’s birth record, which can add up to 12 weeks to the time it takes to issue a card. To verify a birth certificate, Social Security will contact the office that issued it. We do this verification to prevent people from using fraudulent birth records to obtain Social Security numbers to establish false identities.
Whether or not one chooses later in life to participate in what many privacy advocates regard as a ‘beast system’, is up to their own conscience. A little history of the SS# can be found here:
- The Social Security Number (SSN) was developed in 1938 to identify workers eligible for government retirement benefits. In 1961, the IRS began using it as a tax identification number and slowly other agencies followed. Since banks and other non-governmental entities can legally turn away customers who refuse to supply a SSN, its use in the private sector is virtually taken for granted in everything from medical insurance to telephone to credit applications.
An interesting topic to delve into is that of the sovereign citizen advocates, who believe that “By Common Law birthright everyone who is born in a State is a Sovereign Citizen of the State in which they were born”. That quote is from an excellent treatise on the subject, which can be found here..
Barbara Loe Fisher, of the National Vaccine Information Center, reported in her article THE NATIONAL ELECTRONIC VACCINE TRACKING REGISTRY: How The Plan To Force Vaccination Gave Birth To The National ID, A Government Health Records Database, and the End of Medical Privacy
- “Shalala Appropriates Social Security Numbers
- On March 9, 1995, [Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna] Shalala published a notice in the Federal Register of the intent to establish a new routine use of the Social Security number. This permits the Social Security Administration to disclose the Social Security number of a newborn to state health department officials for public health programs including, but not limited to, establishing public immunization registries with the goal of operating a national network of coordinated statewide immunization registries. The new routine use of the Social Security number permits HHS to disclose information about individuals without their consent if it is for the purpose of administering a government public health program or for conducting medical research.”
Whatever one decides to do regarding social security numbers and newborns, at the very least they should be made aware of their options.
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- From PrivacyRights.org: Am I required to give my Social Security number to government agencies?
- The answer depends upon the agency. Some government agencies, including tax authorities, welfare offices, and state Departments of Motor Vehicles, can require your SSN number as mandated by federal law (42 USC 405 (c)(2)(C)(v) and (i)). Others may request the SSN, leading you to believe you must provide it. The Privacy Act of 1974 requires all government agencies — federal, state and local — that request SSNs to provide a “disclosure” statement on the form. The statement explains whether you are required to provide your SSN or if it’s optional, how the SSN will be used, and under what statutory or other authority the number is requested (5 USC 552a, note). The U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) provides guidance and oversight regarding the Privacy Act of 1974. The text of the Privacy Act can be found at the Web site http://www.usdoj.gov/opcl/privstat.htm
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