In the fight against ID Verification laws, religion might be our biggest ally.
And I'm not saying this as a "trick the religious into supporting our cause" thing. This is a very real concern in many religions. If you're familiar with The Mark of the Beast, then you'll see why ID verification laws is the first step in implementing this into society, especially within a Christian Nationalist and Facist society.
As many people have already pointed out, ID verification can be linked to all of your personal data. Your medical records, your financial records, your education records, and what you post on social media, what you talk about with your friends through text messages or discord or some other messaging app, what is in your Google docs or your cloud storage.
We have flock cameras everywhere, ring doorbells can scan your face and know who you are, you can unlock your phone with your face, in some places you can pay with your face or your hand.
With the way things are heading in the world, especially in the US and the UK, we are already under a facist government that uses religion to trick people into thinking they are the good guys, and rewriting what it means to be a Christian to divide people into a "you're with us or against us" type mindset where you're paranoid that everyone is out to get you.
With ID verification, we are very quickly getting to a point where your face, your ID, all of your personal records, your digital footprint, your ability to pay, and your rights are so intertwined that they will be impossible to separate from each other.
Police can scan your face at a routine traffic stop, and suddenly you're being charged with more than running a red light because your posts on social media are critical of the president.
You go to the doctor for a checkup, and they don't even let you check in because you're on a "do not serve" list because of an anti-government meme you posted.
You go to pay for your groceries, and your payment is denied because you've shown support for Palestine, Iran, or whoever else is the current designated enemy of the country.
And if you go somewhere else for medical care or food, somewhere that lets you have it for a payment that doesn't require your face or ID, or even for free, they can track you everywhere you go and arrest you for purchase or possession of illegal goods or services.
This is not fear mongering, because this is what a facist government wants. And ID verification is making it so much more easier. This is, in all ways, what is described as the mark of the Beast. And it's being trickled in slowly so people will not fight it, dressed up as "think about the children."
If we can get enough people to realize this, especially people who are familiar with the Bible and the warning of the mark of the Beast, this may be our best bet in destroying ID verification and other similar laws.
