Digital ID: The Trojan Horse They’re Using to Enslave You and Your Children

Last week, my 16-year-old daughter asked if she could create an account on a new social platform her friends were using. Simple request, right? Not anymore. The site required age verification – not just clicking a checkbox, but uploading government ID or using a third-party verification service.

As I stared at that screen, I couldn’t help but think of my grandfather’s warnings from 30 years ago about communist infiltration and surveillance. Back then, sitting in his kitchen eating frozen grapes, I thought he was paranoid. Today, watching my daughter’s innocent request turn into a demand for government papers to access a website, I realize he wasn’t paranoid enough.

What every parent needs to understand RIGHT NOW is that the digital ID systems being rolled out across this country and around the world have nothing to do with protecting your children and everything to do with creating the most comprehensive surveillance apparatus in human history. They’re using your love for your kids as the Trojan horse to build their digital prison.

Good Parents Being Used as Pawns

Before I explain the game being played, I need to address something important. There are most definitely good people, parents and even legislators who have been hoodwinked by this topic for various reasons. Most have experience with a child being exposed to unsavory content online or, even worse, getting sucked into extortion or other low frequency activities that often end in addiction, depression and even suicide. Understandably, the parents of these kids want to see accountability and reform. They want to see barriers built around the websites that have, or could, cause other kids to fall into the same traps.

I’ve sat with these parents. I’ve seen their anger and tears. I’ve even watched the debates on various bills being pushed through various state and federal legislatures. I’ve heard about the 13-year-old who sent photos to someone they thought was a peer, only to face extortion. The 15-year-old who found communities that encouraged self-harm. The 11-year-old who stumbled onto content that no child should ever see. These aren’t statistics – they’re real kids with real parents who are desperately trying to protect others from the same nightmare.

These parents aren’t our enemies. They’re not trying to build a surveillance state. They’re trying to save kids. And that’s exactly why they’re being used.

The most effective lies are wrapped in truth. The most dangerous policies are sold with genuine tears.

The architects of digital surveillance didn’t create the problem of online predators and harmful content – but they sure as hell are exploiting it. They’re taking the real pain of real families and weaponizing it to build something these grieving parents would never support if they understood where it leads.

Think about it: If I wanted to convince you to hand over your family’s privacy forever, would I lead with “we want to track everything you do online?” Of course not. I’d find parents whose children have been genuinely hurt. I’d put them in front of cameras. I’d let their authentic pain do the convincing. I’d promise them that Digital ID would have prevented their tragedy, knowing full well it wouldn’t have – predators use fake IDs too, harmful content exists in “verified” spaces, and kids share passwords like candy.

But grieving parents don’t think about technical workarounds. They think about their babies. And who could blame them?

The Game They’re Playing

This is where my father’s lessons from the Chicago trading floors come in. He taught me to follow the money. “Learn who the majority shareholders and creditors are,” he’d yell over the chaos, “learn their ethos and what circles these individuals run in. Once this is known you can accurately predict how almost any individual, company, organization, or even nation state, will act.”

So let’s follow the money on Digital ID. Who’s funding the push? Who’s writing the legislation? Who’s building the infrastructure? It’s not the grieving parents – they’re just the spokespeople. Behind them stand the same power brokers who’ve been trying to eliminate online anonymity for decades. They tried with terrorism. They tried with COVID. Now they’ve found their perfect cover: “Children’s Safety”.

Who’s pushing hardest for these systems? The same cast of characters we saw during COVID: The World Economic Forum. Big Tech oligarchs. Central banks. Government agencies that gained massive power during the “emergency” and have no intention of giving it back. Every single one of them speaks in unison about the “urgent need” to verify identity online to “protect children.”

Ask yourself this: When has the government ever given back surveillance powers once granted? When has Big Tech ever said “you know what, we have enough data on you?” When have central banks ever said “we have enough control over your money?”

Never. Not once. Because that’s not how power works.

What Digital ID Actually Is

Let me paint you a picture of what they’re really building. This isn’t your driver’s license in digital form. This is something far more sinister.

Imagine every single thing you do online – every comment, every purchase, every article you read, every video you watch – permanently linked to your legal identity. No more usernames. No more privacy. No more ability to explore ideas or express opinions without it being forever tied to your name, address, and social security number.

Now imagine that system talks to your bank. To your employer. To your health insurance. To your kid’s school. One integrated system where wrong-think in one area means consequences in all areas. Sound far-fetched? It’s literally happening right now in China. Their Social Credit System started as “convenience” and “safety” too and this very system has been, and continues to be, rolled out across Europe, Australia and Canada as I type.

The Playbook Is Always the Same

I’ve watched this pattern since 9/11. Hell, I printed out and read all 500+ pages of the Patriot Act when everyone else was watching fear porn on FOX and CNN. The formula never changes:

Create the solution first. Build the surveillance infrastructure, get the corporate partners on board, prepare the technology. Then create the problem that demands your pre-built solution. Finally, sell that solution as the only way to address the manufactured crisis.

With 9/11, it was terrorism. With COVID, it was public health. Now? It’s our children.

They know you’ll do anything to protect your kids. They’re counting on it. They’re betting that your parental instincts will override your understanding of history, your commitment to freedom, and your ability to see through their manipulation.

Europe and Australia: Your Future If You Don’t Act

Want to see where this leads? Look at Australia. Their Digital ID Act went into effect December 1, 2024. What started as “voluntary” became mandatory for government services within months. Private sector integration is next. They also banned kids under 16 from social media entirely – not to protect them, but to normalize the idea that internet access requires government permission.

The EU is even further along. By 2026, every EU citizen will be required to have a digital wallet linking their national ID with all their documents. Over 500 privacy experts warned it “fails to properly respect the right to privacy.” The EU ignored them. Why? Because privacy was never the point. Control is the point.

China shows us the end game. Facial recognition everywhere. Social credit scores determining whether you can travel, get a job, or send your kids to certain schools. Say something the state doesn’t like online? Good luck buying a train ticket. This isn’t science fiction. It’s Tuesday in Shanghai.

Your Kids Are Smarter Than Their Systems

Here’s what really gets me about the “protect the children” argument: Have these people ever met actual teenagers?

My oldest son figured out how to bypass all restriction I put on our home router within hours when he was younger and I was fighting him about accessing unsavory content online.

Like the moment I saw all 3 of my kids as toddlers at various ages standing on the dinning room table, I was both astonished that they had the ingenuity to figure out how to get up there and terrified they will fall and break their neck at the same time.

In college I went to buy a pitcher of beer from a local watering hole we frequented and was asked for an ID. I was under age, and had never been asked for one before as I usually hung with an older crowd that had IDs. You know what I did? Turn around and say “oh well!”?? NOPE! I said, “crap, I left it back at my house…” and I walked across the street with a friend to his dorm room and created a near perfect ID that I then ended up using for 3 years without flinching until I was actually 21.

My kids friends share VPN recommendations and hacks to find bootlegged movies and other content online like trading cards. “Life hacks”. One kid figures out a workaround, and within a day, the entire school and group of friends know it.

You know what actually protects kids online? Parents who give a damn. Conversations at the dinner table. Teaching them discernment. Being involved in their digital lives without handing that responsibility to the government.

But they don’t want you parenting your children. They want the surveillance state and BigTech doing it. Because state-raised children become state-obedient adults.

The Well-Meaning Advocates Who Don’t See the Trap

I need to be crystal clear about something: Many of the loudest voices supporting Digital ID laws are good people who genuinely believe they’re saving children. They’re teachers who’ve seen students destroyed by cyberbullying. They’re counselors who’ve talked kids off ledges after online exploitation. They’re legislators who’ve met with constituent families torn apart by digital-age tragedies.

These advocates look at Digital ID and see a solution. They see age gates keeping kids from harmful content. They see verification systems that could prevent anonymous harassment. They see accountability for platforms that profit from addiction and pain. And in their desperate desire to prevent more tragedies, they can’t see – or won’t see – the surveillance infrastructure they’re helping to build.

I’ve tried talking to some of them. Shown them how these same tools are used in China to silence dissent. Explained how “voluntary” systems become mandatory. Demonstrated how every surveillance power granted for “safety” gets repurposed for control. Their response? “That won’t happen here. We have safeguards. This is different.”

But it’s not different. It never is. The same technology that verifies a 12-year-old can’t access adult content also verifies which adults are accessing “misinformation.” The same database that protects children from predators also tracks which parents attend school board meetings. The same algorithms that flag “harmful” content for kids will flag “harmful” political speech for adults.

These well-meaning advocates are like the parents who supported cameras in schools after Columbine, never imagining those same cameras would be used to arrest parents for questioning curriculum. They’re like the citizens who supported the Patriot Act after 9/11, never imagining it would be used to spy on journalists and political opponents.

GOOD INTENTIONS DON’T PREVENT BAD OUTCOMES WHEN YOU’RE PARTICIPATING IN AND HELPING TO BUILD THE TOOLS OF TYRANNY.

The Frog Is Already Boiling

As of May 2025, at least 24 states have passed age verification laws – Louisiana, Arkansas, Virginia, Utah, Montana, Texas, North Carolina, Nebraska, Georgia, Alabama, Kansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, South Dakota, Wyoming, North Dakota, Missouri, Arizona, and more in the pipeline. Every single one following the same template. Every single one pushed by the same coalition of “child safety” advocates who somehow never mention and don’t even remotely understand the surveillance infrastructure they’re building.

The Kids Online Safety Act? It passed the Senate last year but stalled in the House. Now they’ve reintroduced it in 2025, and this time they have Trump Jr. tweeting support: “We can protect free speech and our kids at the same time from Big Tech.” Really? Since when has any surveillance law protected free speech? But they know conservatives will eat it up when it comes from the right messenger.

The “Improving Digital Identity Act” passed the Senate Homeland Security Committee back in 2023 with an 11-1 vote. Rep. Bill Foster keeps reintroducing it, hoping to sneak it into AI Task Force recommendations. Meanwhile, 13 states already have mobile driver’s licenses. They’re not waiting for federal permission – they’re building the infrastructure state by state.

Federal courts keep striking these laws down as unconstitutional. Courts in Ohio, Indiana, Utah, and Mississippi have all said the same thing: these violate the First Amendment. The response from legislators? Pass more of them. Flood the zone. Overwhelm the courts. Normalize the infrastructure until resistance becomes impossible.

Remember when vaccine passports were a “conspiracy theory?” Remember when digital currencies were “paranoid fantasies?” Remember when social credit systems were “something that could never happen here?”

I’m tired of being right about these things. But I’ll keep warning you anyway. Because once this infrastructure exists, your children won’t even remember what privacy felt like. In fact, most helicopter parents who track where their kids are all the time have already played right into this game plan, which I speak about in a post I wrote not long ago, “Tracking Apps & Privacy Phones: Addressing the Contradiction”.

What You Can Do RIGHT NOW

I spent years depressed about the state of the world, overwhelmed by the scale of evil we face. I learned, however, that evil only wins when good people feed it their energy through compliance and apathy.

So what do you do?

First, stop feeding the beast. Every time you upload your ID to access a website, you’re building their prison. Every time you support a company pushing digital ID, you’re funding your own enslavement. Every time you stay silent because speaking up is uncomfortable, you’re teaching your children that freedom isn’t worth fighting for.

Second, build alternatives. Support platforms that respect privacy. Use cash whenever possible. Use silver an even start to barter for goods and services. Teach yourself and your kids about VPNs, encryption, and digital privacy. Not to do anything illegal, but because privacy is not a crime – yet.

Third, get loud. Very loud. Contact your representatives. Show up at school board meetings. Share this information with other parents. The only reason they’re moving fast is because they know awakened parents are their biggest threat.

Fourth, prepare for the parallel economy.

We need to continue building and supporting systems outside their control. This isn’t retreating – it’s strategic positioning for the fight ahead.

The Mission Hasn’t Changed

My grandfather used to tell me, “No matter what happens in your life, you will be totally protected if you simply obey the 10 Commandments and pray to the Holy Spirit.” He saw this coming 30 years ago. He knew godless systems always evolve toward total control because they can’t tolerate any authority higher than the state.

This is spiritual warfare playing out through technology. They want to be God, determining who can buy, sell, speak, or exist in society. But they’re not God. They’re predictable and not even as smart as they think they are.

Every empire built on lies eventually falls. Every surveillance state eventually collapses under its own weight. Every tyrant eventually faces judgment. Our job is to resist, build alternatives, and raise children who know freedom is worth any price.

The Choice Is Now

We’re at the same crossroads our founders faced. Do we accept “peaceful slavery” – going along to get along, uploading our papers like good little subjects, teaching our children compliance is virtue? Or do we choose “dangerous freedom” – refusing to build our own digital prison, accepting the inconvenience and risk that comes with resistance?

I know my choice. I made it long ago. The question is: What’s yours?

If you’re still working for companies pushing this agenda, shopping at stores supporting digital ID, or staying silent to avoid confrontation, you’re not neutral. You’re complicit. You’re building the prison your children will inhabit.

The good news? You can change that today. Right now. This minute.

Start by sharing this article. Then pick one thing – just one – you’ll change today to stop feeding their system.

Maybe it’s finally leaving that Big Tech job… or at very least starting to search for something that might not make your soul hurt to get up in the morning and work another day for a company whose ethos you know is completely contrary to your own.

Maybe it’s closing that account with a bank pushing digital ID. Maybe it’s having an honest conversation with your kids about what’s really happening.

Whatever it is, do it now. Because tomorrow, it might require government permission.

The window is closing. Your children are watching. History is recording.

What will you do?