The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP)

The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP) was born of the struggles of one tenacious survivor of domestic violence and stalking. The NCIDP continues her work with the help of many. Read more about the NCIDP...

If existing criminal laws against stalking and domestic violence had been strongly pursued, 9/11 might never have happened.

Most individuals with the Abusive Personality Disorder (APD) that it takes to organize acts of terrorism, or spend a lifetime committing any forms of organized violent crime, will terrorize those closest to them first and worst.

Several domestic violence and stalking case files show that participants in the planning and logistics of the 9/11 attacks would have been unable to participate in that planning and support, would have been in prison and "out of circulation", if their reported domestic violence and stalking activities had been properly pursued and prosecuted.

Boasting, weeks in advance of 9/11 to their domestic partner/domestic violence victims, "we're gonna make thermate a household word" with the impending attacks that would become known as "9/11", the FBI was thoroughly asleep at the switch when it came to the domestic perpetrations and confessions terrorists were telling their domestic violence targets – who were passing it on to the FBI whenever they thought that they were safe enough to do so.

As one victim reported:

"I didn't know who he was, but I knew he, the principle, was important enough to have a very large security contingent surrounding him, and stretching several of San Francisco's city blocks. Up to the point I found out [who he was], I was thinking 'mafioso, Italian mafia, highly wanted,' and dismissing my instinctive recognition of the suicide bombers as such in his security contingent. That was the error, perhaps subconsciously willed, of racial profiling, or, in this case perhaps, reverse racial profiling. That is, the security cluster immediately in front of the principle was so thoroughly light-skinned, caucasian-looking with only some vaguely Mediterranean features among them, that they stood out like a sore thumb in the racially diverse streets of San Francisco. The few vaguely and generically Mediterranean features among them led me to believe, or allowed me to convince myself, to think of the Italian mafia instead of al Qaeda, even though I knew my partner had predicted 9/11. So, as I brushed past security I knew were armed, I repeatedly dismissed my recognition of the suicide bombers among them that I was brushing past. I was fully expecting to go home, go to the website of 'America's Most Wanted' [TV show], and find the principle was a wanted mobster."

The "principle" walking the streets of San Francisco in late 2002, protected by that security contingent and multiple suicide bombers, was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He had but a few short days after that sighting before the victim learned his identity and reported his presence, down to specific location, time of day, attire and state of grooming. This victim-witness noted nearby locations of interest, where video footage might be readily available, might have captured the image of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed passing by, and thereby provide further confirmation.

The victim-witness continued, "The FBI never bothered to contact me for any more details, never followed up with me. After about seventy-two hours without any contact from the FBI for follow up and further details, I concluded they really weren't so interested in capturing him after all. Certainly they'd missed any opportunity that might have remained to capture him, or his local security contingent, while he was still on American soil, in the unlikely event he hadn't already gone before I identified and reported him. But I was also sure that identifying his security contingent, stretching the length of several city blocks on both sides of the street, would require more information than what a few random cameras along the route were likely to provide by themselves."

Sarcastically, the victim added, "At least my partner and [my partner's] cronies got a chance to get congratulated and thanked for their part in 9/11, apparently for helping organize the thermate. [Thermate is an incendiary explosive. Thermate residues were found in all tested samples of the dust thrown out by the collapsing World Trade Center buildings on 9/11]. My partner was glowing for days afterward. In fact, now that I think about it, that glow appeared to end, abruptly get replaced with an unusual intensity of abusive rage, right after I tipped the FBI."

The victim added, "Although the visit of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed seemed to have made my partner very happy, it was nothing compared to the joy with which my partner had described the impending plans for 9/11 many weeks in advance. Predicting that they would make thermate a household word with that event, I'll never forget watching my partner's face grow into this whole head grin that literally, even as it unfolded, brought to my mind the image of the Grinch, in the original cartoon, unfolding his whole-head smile as he had his 'wonderful, terrible, awful, wicked idea'. I didn't know it was even physically possible for my partner to form a smile even half that big. It was surreal. In my several years with that partner, never had my partner been so throughly, deeply, profoundly, overwhelmingly joyful as when discussing those plans for mass murder, a longtime career for my partner, in the event that, weeks later, would come to be known as 9/11."

"As you might imagine," continued this victim, "when I began these preparations to leave this abusive partner, I did so with great caution and apprehension, knowing well by then just how deadly dangerous my partner, and my partner's group, really was."

This victim's escape planning was discovered, and the abusive partner raped and then homicidally assaulted the victim. That homicidal attack occurred a very few short weeks after Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was reported finally captured.

"The reward for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was information for capture only, no conviction required," states one NCIDP Legal Analyst. "If this victim's tip had been used to actually track down and capture Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the victim would have been entitled to the reward a few weeks before the homicidal assault - the victim might have had a chance."

It is fairly common practice for domestic abusers who are also involved in organized crime to have their associates in crime follow and watch the victim partners. The aforementioned victim's computer was also tampered with and spyware installed, an increasingly common tactic across all perpetrators. But that seems to have occurred after the original tip was submitted, and the abusive partner's cell then appears to have learned of the tip more immediately through a leak from the FBI itself.

Many victim partners have no idea that their abusers are also involved in organized crime, at least not early in the relationship, and even if they recognize or are made clearly aware that they are being stalked, may not initially know that the stalkers are connected to their abusive partners.

A generally estimated minimum of 85% of all violent criminals involved in organized violent crime, including terrorism, are domestic violence perpetrators. The number may be statistically nearer 100%.

International terrorism and 9/11 are not, in themselves, an issue that The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP) concerns itself with, although the NCIDP does abhor any form of violence toward innocent women, children, civilians, bystanders. But when the perpetrators of organized crime, terrorism, and of 9/11 itself bring that violence home to their innocent, unknowing partners and perpetrate that same terrorism inside the home, commit domestic violence – then those perpetrators do concern the NCIDP.

Important new medical statistics from the CDC (01/2012) on domestic, intimate violence are telling, although they significantly understate the incidence of these forms of violence by ignoring those who have already died at the hands of their perpetrators (these statistics only survey living women, i.e. survivors, omitting the dead). Moreover, shame and culturally prevalent victim blaming, broadly intractable in a rape culture, continue to reduce rates of self-reporting of these crimes. WORSE, tragically, see what happens to some victims of rape when they seek medical treatment and reporting (http://cases.NCIDPolicy.org/fwcs_rapist_protection_at_lyon_martin.html), to cause even more underreporting.

NEVERTHELESS, this study offers one of the most probative and informative large-scale investigations of this epidemic in recent history.

1 in 2 women & men (48%-49%) experience psychological violence committed by an intimate partner.
1 in 2 women (45%) are victims of SEXUAL violence OTHER THAN RAPE. 1 in 5 (22%) men likewise experience sexual violence other than rape.
1 in 3 women (36%) are victims of rape, stalking, and/or physical abuse BY AN INTIMATE PARTNER. Meanwhile, MEN ARE LIKEWISE VICTIMIZED WITH ONLY SLIGHLY LESS FREQUENCY (29%), but ARE FAR LESS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE MULTIPLE TYPES OF THESE FORMS OF VIOLENCE, most often experiencing strictly physical abuse, less severe abuse, and suffer much less negative and long-term impacts.
1 in 4 women (24%) are victims of physical abuse BY AN INTIMATE PARTNER. 1 in 7 men (14%) experience similar violence
1 in 5 women (18%) are victims of rape, more than half of which (51%) are committed by an intimate partner, and another 41% of which are committed by an acquaintance. In other words, 92% of all rapes of women are committed by someone known to the victim, and only 8% are stranger rapes. [NOTE that victims "made to penetrate" their perpetrators sexually are excluded from this rape statistic which particularly causes the incidence of the rape of men to be grossly underreported at 1 in 71 (1%).]
1 in 6 women (16%) are victims of stalking, two-thirds (66%) of which were committed by a current or former intimate partner.

The pages of The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP) are dedicated to the victims of these crimes and the cause for justice and personal safety and freedom for those victims. Here can be found information about the violent culture of perpetration and rape culture, that engenders such terrible statistics; information about the rights of victims (and everyone else) to protect themselves (and yourself), particularly the rights to protect and control identity information and remain anonymous; as well as myriad other facts of law and history relating to those rights. For context and emphasis, a number of Case Studies highlight real-life perpetration cases and expose numerous, often horrific, perpetrations that rarely make the front pages in a rape culture society – and demonstrate that you don't fight the violence epidemic in a rape culture society with more rape culture tactics.

The power to dictate another's identity, examine the acceptability and validity of another's identity, to adjudge another's identity in any way – that is the power of ownership, and the ultimate symbol of enslavement, regardless of whether you agree with the adjudgment or not. The person that owns another's identity owns that other person.

If we had instead asked on our entrance page, "Who owns you?", would there be a breath's hesitation? [Entrance Page].

Both questions are the same question, and understanding that is the key to understanding the critical importance of retaining personal power, autonomy and control over one's own identity. "You are a slave when you no longer are who you say you are, who you believe yourself to be; when how you choose to represent that self to the world is no longer dictated exclusively by you, but by any other instead." [JaneDoe].

FOR survivors of violence, it's a lethal issue.

The National Council on Identity Policy is devoted to the subject of personal identity information and the fight against violence; the laws of the land that empower individuals in their own identities and over their own, owned, identity information; the exercise by individuals of their ownership of their identity information, "the most valuable, most intimate possession that can ever be owned." [Identity & Law].

We are here to make sure you know that you do still own yourself, your name, your person, your being, and all that describes you. It is you, and it is yours – you are yours. [Identity & Law].

We are also here to let you know how essential that is - how essential that is not only to your personal right over your identity, but also to personal safety, and to the very existence and meaning of freedom and liberty itself. [Case Studies]. Indeed, what may be little more than inconvenience to you, or no matter at all if you happened to agree with any adjudgments made of your identity; what may be so little or nothing to you is killing many innocent victims every day.

We at the NCIDP are an organization of, about, by, and for survivors of violence. We have developed expertise on the subject of the care and control of personal identity information to the end that it empowers us to survive our perpetrators.

What we have learned is important for everyone. [History of Identity & Documents].

We have been at this work for more than 15 years, since before much public awareness or concern about "identity theft" arose. We guarantee that the subsequent epidemic of identity theft would not have happened and unfolded as it did if existing laws and identity property protections were enforced consistently and appropriately. We believe that it is long overdue for U.S. Attorneys nationwide to protect lives and enforce the laws in these matters and manners that we discuss here – that we have discussed for more than a decade. Federal prosecutors could have prevented the identity theft epidemic from ever happening simply by prosecuting these existing laws consistently, as we discuss.

The usual cautionary note: we are only disclosing facts of law and propriety here, not providing legal advice to you in your particular circumstances. The information on this website obviously cannot serve as legal advice to you in your particular situation.

An additional cautionary note for other survivors of violence: read the NCIDP case studies, become informed of the reperpetrations that you may expect while enforcing your basic rights to survive with those who purport to offer you aid and assistance – too many of them are dangerous, homicidal perpetrators in their own right. [http://cases.NCIDPolicy.org/fwcs_terrorists_own_san_francisco.html, Case Studies].