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On this episode of The Vonu Podcast, you’ll hear the audio of a booklet originally released by Eden Press in 1972, which shares the same title as above.
This physical booklet scanned below was another selection mailed to me by Jim Stumm, The Man Who Met Rayo.
As can be ascertained, the following are 100 suggestions to live free, presumably by the author of The Paper Trip, Barry Reid.
It turns out Eden Press is still around and all of these books are still available, and more. I would highly recommend perusing their website and making a purchase if the paper tripping path is of interest to you.
Please be aware that some of these suggestions might be outdated or otherwise irrelevant, whether due to the vastly different political climate or advancements in surveillance technology. Proceed at your own risk.
Of course, no copyright infringement is intended. Please enjoy!
100 Ways to Disappear and Live Free
There are four basic principles of libertarian living, each of which must be observed in order to remain free in America. While libertarians demonstrate a high degree of individual adaptability to the diminishing quality of freedom, it has proven true many times over that none of these principles can be safely violated – for long. The price is harassment, arrest, even confinement.
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 will almost always determine whether or not freedom will be yours. But YOU must take the responsibility for your own freedom. NO ONE, especially the knavish bureaucrats, will do it for you.
Here, then, are our four basic principles together with ideas and examples of just how they can best be effected.
I. BE INCONSPICUOUS
1. Avoid drawing attention to yourself; virtually ANY activity can be interpreted as criminal thanks to the gratuitous profusion of “laws.”
2. Don’t exhibit “socially unacceptable” behavior PUBLICLY. Pigs are programmed to bust anyone who appears “suspicious” (different from them). And insane asylums, jails, and joints aren’t exactly “free”…
3. In practice, legality comes to mean much less than outward conventionality, conformity, and thus, “respectability.” Get it?
4. Your appearance, possessions, and actions should always justify your presence on a legitimate (conventional) basis; this is the best way to avoid suspicion.
5. If you are stopped and questioned, always be able to give a reasonable explanation of why you are there, where you are from, and where you are going. Smile and be “helpful.”
6. A sullen or hostile attitude triggers the cop for a bust – your bust. So go ahead and kill the pigs – with kindness. You’ll win, brother.
7. Even perfectly legal behavior can arouse suspicion: avoid such things as solitary walks late at night. The man finds it easy, even entertaining, to pin stray raps on such “suspicious” characters. Days and weeks can go by before they decide they’ve made a “mistake.” Really.
8. Examine your daily habits and eliminate any which might possibly be regarded as “peculiar”, especially if performed publicly.
9. Live in a large city where you can have the protection of anonymity; avoid the small towns where the only sport is gossip – about “those people.” Your business should be no one else’s.
10. Appear to be lower-middle class in your standard of living. Don’t attract the attention given the very poor or the obviously well-off.
11. Rent a house or apartment that appears “respectable,” but no more plush than the average cop can afford.
12. If you like to live it up, do it somewhere other than around where you live and work. Mexico and Jamaica are good trips.
13. Dress conventionally; adopt what you perceive as the broad community standard. Don’t be black or white as long as grey has so many shades.
14. Be clean and neat, never showy or gaudy.
15. Conformity for guys means no beard, long hair, or freaky clothes. Biker threads are out.
16. For chicks no sexy, convention-flaunting attire such as mini-skirts and see-thru blouses without underwear. Pigs LOVE to drool over our liberated sisters, and often do more…
17. Have conventional answers to common questions: where you are from, where you work, where your family lives.
18. There’s less heat in telling plausible lies than in countering with self-righteous silence. The object is to avoid suspicion, so be a “reasonable” person. Lying is not illegal unless you are under oath or perpetrating a fraud.
19. What’s more, it’s perfectly moral to lie to someone who asks about things which are none of his business; he is the one who is acting immorally. Remember this!
20. Be outwardly quiet and unobtrusive around home.
21. Don’t keep noisy dogs, excessive cats, or any other pets which might, because of their nature or their number, be of concern to your neighbors or the health department.
22. Don’t throw wild parties. Far too many busts come courtesy of tender-eared, blue-nosed, flink-ass neighbors. Pathetic but true.
23. Don’t make crystal, DMT, acid, or nitro in your kitchen. Window sills are not the best places to cultivate, either.
24. Hold your stereo to under five decibels late at night. Not everyone mellows out with the Stones or the Grateful Dead.
25. Your neighbors are the most dangerous people you know; include your relatives here, too. They will ALL snitch without compunction. “Calling the cops” is a fair sport in towns of all sizes, so don’t antagonize.
26. Be superficially “nice” to your neighbors, but have as little as possible to do with them. Ideally, you don’t want them to know ANYTHING about you.
27. Never express controversial opinions around home or at work. If you have to preach, do it in another town or state.
28. Change neighbors at least once a year; move to a different part of town and DON’T leave a forwarding address.
29. Allusions to “going back East”, “getting drafted”, “returning to college”, etc. can be helpful smoke screens to evading inquisitive landlords. Never let them know where you’re really going.
30. J. Edgar Hoover stated many times that fully 90% of all arrests by the F.B.I. are due directly to the “helpful cooperation” of neighbors and relatives. Need we say more?
31. Should you have school-age children and not want them to attend public schools, you can: a) find a suitable private school; b) tell neighbors the children are feeble-minded and that you are tutoring them at home; c) tell the inquisitive you are a transient visitor from Mississippi, Virginia, or South Carolina, states which have repealed compulsory attendance laws; d) move every three months or so to prevent rumors from spreading too far; and e) keep the children under cover during school hours.
32. Don’t take the bus cross-country. Terminals are notorious hangouts for pig informers who appraise bus travelers as “only niggers, spics, college beatniks, and other commie types.” (You’d never believe who said this, but then again, you may very well know…)
33. Even if you observe all these precautions, you might still be harassed by criminals, both private and public. Whatever you do, don’t blow your cover and thus lead them to suspect you. Keep your temper, be humble and polite, and refrain from shouting matches and/or slugfests. Remember, you are a minority of one; “they” have the guns and the bars.
34. If you’re not content, however, to let vengeance be the Lord’s, at least abide by this cardinal rule of guerilla warfare: Don’t let the enemy determine your tactics. Retaliate at a time and place with weapons of your choosing.
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II. SEPERATE AND INSULATE YOUR BASIC LIFE ACTIVITIES
35. Keep your home, job, personal trips, and hobbies well separated, even self-contained. Don’t let heat in one area endanger any of the others. How? Read on…
36. Keep the address of where you actually live a well-guarded secret. This is VERY IMPORTANT.
37. Never carry your actual address on you or in your car.
38. Let only those who are trustworthy and have a genuine need know your actual address.
39. Set up a “legal” address somewhere else, such as a closet at a friend’s house containing some misleading personal effects (books on subjects you have no interest in and clothes a few sizes away from your own, etc.). He can thus point to something if ever questioned; of course, he hasn’t the slightest notion of when you’ll be back from India…
40. Use this “legal address” for all your ID which you plan on using regularly, such as driver’s license or state ID; provide it also for your employer’s records, should it be required.
41. If you need a phone, use a phoney name. Let only the address to be correct among the facts you are asked to provide. A small cash deposit is a small price for anonymity.
42. Rent your pad under even another name if you wish.
43. Pay your rent in cash – it never has your name on it.
44. Receive all your mail at a 24-hour post office. Use your “legal” address to obtain a box, or any “friendly” address for that matter. Peace of mind is not expecting the fascists to knock at three in the morning, with or without a warrant.
45. Never sign for registered or certified mail. Tell the postman “you” have moved; he will then return the letter to the post office and send out a notice to come pick it up at the post office. Again, ignore it. The registered letter (from a greedy bill collector or professional snooper) will go back to the sender – unclaimed and undeliverable. “You” can’t be reached; the snooper won’t know your address, either.
46. Instead of a post office box, you can employ a mail forwarding service. They will cooperate fully in your efforts to keep a good distance between you and anyone else, whatever your reasons. Most newspapers carry their ads in the “personal” classifieds. With two or more services you can have your mail routed in and out of the country, each mailing under a different name. Houdini never had it so easy.
47. For people (and bill collectors) you want to “lose,” provide a forwarding address out of the country. You can arrange to have letters mailed from foreign countries stating you have no intention of ever returning. If they are to creditors, tell them to write you off and save the collection expense.
48. Another ruse for covering tracks is to write “deceased” on the face of any incoming mail. Drop unopened into public boxes.
49. Any activity which might attract unfavorable attention, such as writing, nude photography, erotic sculpture, etc. should be done under a nom de plume. Provide a separate address for any such names. Post office boxes are fine.
50. Avoid being fingerprinted; don’t apply for civil service jobs. The F.B.I. would like to have everyone fingerprinted so they can CONTROL individual lives. Truly the “mark of the beast” when you think about it…
51. Stay out of the armed forces. Here, again, fingerprinting labels you forever with the only method of positive identification.
52. Don’t apply for security clearances or seek employment in firms which routinely fingerprint.
53. Don’t take part in mass demonstrations or dissident activities which might lead to arrests. Fingerprinting would surely follow.
54. The thumb print requested (but not required) by California for its driver’s license does not go to the F.B.I. It is used only in cases of suspected identity. Decline to give your print, however, on the grounds that it violates your basic religious beliefs, or that it’s part of the International Communist Conspiracy (look the bureaucrat straight in the eyes with this one – after a quick, paranoid glance over your left shoulder.)
55. Keep your name out of public records, such as business licenses, permits, tax accounts. Operate under another name or use another person as a front.
56. Always subscribe to magazines and newspapers under a phoney name; pay with money orders.
57. Likewise, always order merchandise by mail under an alias. Just good form, folks.
58. NEVER order utility services in your real name. Utility companies are the first watering hole for skip tracers.
59. Own real estate under either a cooperative relative’s name, or a fictitious one.
60. If you have to vote, use your “legal” address. Just make sure you don’t live there…
61. Vehicle registrations, like real estate, are much safer in another name. No heat here so long as the taxes and fees are paid.
62. Try to do without a checking or savings account unless it’s set up under a solid alias. This means obtaining a legitimate Social Security number, and unless you know what you’re doing, you are inviting a lot of heat. By far the best methods for creating “legal” ID are all outlined in careful detail in THE PAPER TRIP from Eden Press ($5.95 by mail). With this kind of ID, you can do ANYTHING you like under your new name which you might find difficult or impossible under your old name. A worthy investment, indeed.
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III. RESPECT THE ANONYMITY OF OTHER LIBERTARIANS
63. Protect the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of fellow libertarians. Use a code of your own making to disguise the actual names and numbers. Keep in a safe place.
64. Try to avoid carrying this coded address book with you. Pigs always flash on such items and so-called “rings” are busted this way. A smart thing to do would be to carry a dummy book of names and numbers selected at random from the phone book.
65. This practice protects you too inasmuch as suspicion is cast on you should some of your friends be busted and their names appear in your book.
66. It’s also a bummer if your friends get picked up because of your carelessness. They tend not to be friends anymore…
67. Don’t engage in illegal activity on other people’s property without their express consent. Save the grass and skin scenes for your own home orgy.
68. Don’t ask questions which intrude on the privacy of others. Ask general questions, not specific. One might not want you to know where he works, but wouldn’t mind telling you his occupation.
69. Adopt the attitude that personal information such as your school background, national origin, interests, politics, family income, etc., etc., are NO ONE’S business but your own. And stick to it! Snooping will thereby become so difficult that suspicion will be cast on the snooper rather than on you.
70. When faced with such an inquisitive person, have prepared a set of standard answers which you can deliver without discomfort or concern. But if the person is really obnoxious, give him some out-and-out lies which, when “reported” in the right places, will make him look more like the ass he is.
71. Get around creating public records of your financial transactions. As mentioned above, avoid using personal checks. For large amounts, use money orders; put phoney names and addresses on them or write illegibly. If you are mailing the money order, include a note which gives the correct information.
72. Don’t request receipts unless the amount is large; make them intelligible only to the parties involved. Remember: cash still has no names on it, which is why Big Brother can hardly wait for the day of the “cashless” society. (Caution: most banks have well-established policies for recording serial numbers of large denomination bills whenever they are deposited or withdrawn in large amounts.)
73. Payment of taxes of all kinds should be largely a matter of personal convictions. The debate among libertarians alone is endless, so only a few generally-observed practices will be mentioned here.
74. The basic rule, in which even the IRS concurs, is pay only what you are liable for. This means taking advantage of any and all loopholes to the fullest with the ultimate aim of paying no tax whatsoever. Remember too, however, that several federal joints have rather distinguished populations of tax-evading accountants, attorneys, businessmen, and politicians. If avoiding personal income tax is your goal, both state and federal, by all means, study well or seek competent advice.
75. Sales and use taxes can often be avoided by buying consumer items through personal channels such as friends, bazaars, swap meets (some), classified want ads, bartering, and business exchanges. Out-of-state mail order purchases are exempt from local taxes.
76. Selective nonpayment of taxes, such as refusing to pay that portion of your tax which would ordinarily go for unacceptable social purposes (war, foreign military aid, the CIA, big industry subsidies, narcs, F.B.I. spies, ad nauseam) has become increasingly acceptable and feasible thanks to the rise of numerous organizations which have established recognized trust funds with your (otherwise) tax dollars. This field is wide open as the courts have done virtually nothing due to the endless complications of class-action nonpayment tax cases.
77. Sharp practices, such as claiming 10 or 12 dependents to reduce the weekly bite of withholding, or making a deal with your employer to be paid in cash (which a great many do willingly) are ways of lessening, even eliminating your tax, but can’t be recommended if you plan on remaining in the same job for over a year or so, or if you don’t wish to live with a solid alias.
78. A “compromise” in the above dilemma is to maintain a minimal tax profile, but plan on earning the bulk of your income through non-recorded means, say, odd jobs for cash. Lead a “straight” life for the tax vultures, but “live” underground with another trade and/or name.
79. In seeking employment, you are usually asked for former job references. If you know that some of them will be negative, DON’T LIST THEM. For the resulting “gaps” in your employment history, have already made up the names and addresses of your former “employers.” They could be local or out-of-state, in which case they probably won’t be verified except by mail. Of course, you will be prepared for this by listing a mail forward service’s address as that of your former employer. Merely pay the first month’s fee and notify the service of your “code name” – a company. You will then be able to rewrite your own employment history. Oh happy day! Gaps can also be covered by using attendance at school or travel abroad as alternatives to negative job references.
80. For local job references, a good trick is to ask or pay a businessman’s secretary to give all the goody information right over the telephone. Provide the phone number on the application, naturally, but remember that the number may very well be verified first by a call to information. When it checks out, your application will appear quite honest, won’t it?
81. Personal references on either employment or credit applications are a laugh. They are virtually never verified. Provide them, of course, but feel no compunction whatever in lifting random names and assumed relationships right from the phone book. A locally known doctor or minister is a safe bet, too.
82. For credit references, bear in mind that outfits like big department stores, and most credit unions will not give out information to ANYONE on one of their customer’s or member’s accounts. This means you can use any number of these references with impunity when applying for credit as the lender will not be able to verify one way or the other if your application is true – a fact he will definitely NOT tell you. A complete guide, by the way, to establishing and obtaining credit and credit cards is included in THE PAPER TRIP.
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IV. CREATE AN ALTERNATE IDENTITY
83. A solid set of ID in another name is what can truly be called “freedom insurance.” With the growing threat of arrest and prosecution for leading a “free” life, it’s plainly comforting to have the option to cut and run, even if you choose not to.
84. Obtaining alternate ID should be done before you get into trouble. Take the time to do it right; in an emergency, many other matters will compete for your time. In the future, first class ID may become more difficult to obtain, too.
85. The best ID to obtain is obviously that which is issued directly by government agencies themselves. Using forged, stolen, or totally fake ID is a bust in itself. Needless to say, a number of mail-order firms do offer “ID cards” and blanks for sale, but the chances of your being able to lead an undetected, alternate life with such phoney papers are slim indeed. They can get you into a bar, but they won’t get you a passport.
86. With legal ID, you will find no trouble in doing many tasks which would otherwise prove impossible or extremely difficult at best. Also with legal ID, the risk of detection is reduced to a minimum when and if you choose to “disappear.”
87. With government ID, you can effectively erase the curse of a jail or prison record. Tens of thousands of “free” Americans carry with them the permanent label of “felon” or “ex-con”. The real crime begins only after a person leaves the joint: legal and social ostracism continue all their lives. What better reason to “disappear?”
88. If you had the misfortune to receive a less-than-honorable discharge from the armed forces (thousands do so annually), the acquisition and use of an alternate identity will be your first step in beginning to live free. You’ve already lost most, if not all, your G.I. “benefits,” but at least you’ll be able to get a decent job – now. Watch out for fingerprinting, however; Big Brother has your prints, and will be only too happy to prove you’re one of those “dirty-rotten-Commie-rat-flink-deserters.” And you thought honest criminals had it bad?
89. Using a legal identity is another way of covering up a bad employment record, too, particularly if the law was involved in some adverse way (theft, embezzlement, etc.). In some occupational circles, the word gets around – fast.
90. Men of draft age have used alternate ID to escape what they considered the illegal obligation of fighting an immoral war. They’ve gone to Canada and later come back as someone else.
91. By obtaining the required documents, you can even change citizenship. People like James Earl Ray and Clifford Irvings could have covered their tracks permanently had they only known a few basics of alternate ID.
92. Many have made a regular practice of beating creditors and collection agencies through the adroit use of aliases and legal alternate ID. They are living proof that debts belong to yesterday. Financially, they live quite free – today.
93. A quick way up the occupational ladder is to combine mail order school diplomas, certificates, and degrees with expert ID. Not only can a clean break with the past be effected, but a sharp increase in income as well. The only limit here is your imagination and desire.
94. Some of the sharpest operators create an ID as a physician or clergyman and rake in commercial discounts as well as hundreds of free offers and special deals once their names get on “preferred” mailing lists. Such ID can be of great benefit socially, too.
95. Alternate ID is the quickest way to starting all over in the credit world. The most atrocious credit record is gone forever when your old name disappears. This is an oversimplification, certainly, but what else can you say when you aren’t “you” anymore?
96. Once some form of commercial credit is established, the obtaining of bank credit cards, oil company cards, and travel and entertainment cards is almost automatic if a few solid rules are observed. These are all detailed in THE PAPER TRIP.
97. Related to alternate ID are the uses of handwriting, physical disguises, and cosmetology as they underline and support the “believability” of a new person. THE PAPER TRIP covers all these subjects as well.
98. The ultimate technique and the most basic necessity for initiating the creation of legal alternate identity is obtaining a very special type of birth certificate DIRECTLY from the government itself. Until now, only the cleverest of international espionage agents have known and used this method, but NOW the details are analyzed in full in THE PAPER TRIP. This method so far surpasses any other in effectiveness as to make anything less an absolute waste of time, to say nothing of your peace of mind.
99. From this unique method flow all the beauties of obtaining any other ID you need directly from the government too. THE PAPER TRIP spells out a step-by-step sequence for acquiring a complete package of freedom-giving alternate ID, from driver’s licenses to passports. Whatever you need, it’s there, completely described and explained.
100. Finally, to assure your successful disappearance and continued ability to live free, you owe it to yourself to purchase THE PAPER TRIP. While this has been but a brief attempt to introduce you to the concept of living free, THE PAPER TRIP is a master guide and unequaled source of underground information for actually doing so. LET’S GET IT ON!
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