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100 Ways To Disappear

                                And Live Free

                              (C) 1972 Eden Press

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                                  INTRODUCTION

        To "live free" means to be able to control your own life

        and to avoid violence, or the threat of violence, by others.

        What you do and how you do it will almost always determine

        whether or not freedom will be yours.   But YOU must take the

        responsibility for creating your own freedom.   No one,

        especially the "government" will do it for you.

        To "disappear" means to make it impossible for other

        people to invade your personal world of freedom. Since most

        of such invasion is by means of electronic data gathering and

        cross-referencing, you must be able to short-circuit these

        procedures effectively.

        The most efficient method today is through the use of

        what we call "alternate identification".   If the new names

        and numbers you plug into the networks don't match

        the old ones, you have not only "disappeared", but have also

        been "reborn".   And being reborn means leaving your past records

        where they can no longer affect you and your lifestyle.

        This "disappearing" of individuals is obviously discomforting

        to institutions and governments determined to control

        personal activities in the Land of the Free.   To them

        it appears downright seditious, since in reality their power

        depends directly on the number of people they can control --

        through... [continues]

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