The Transmitting Utility known as the Birth Certificate
Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Red: I know. I know you’re good, Andy, but all that paper leaves a trail. Now, anybody gets curious, the FBI, IRS, whatever, it’s gonna lead to somebody.
Andy Dufresne: Well sure it is, but not to me. And certainly not to the Warden.
Red: Alright, who?
Andy Dufresne: Randall Stevens.
Red: Who?
Andy Dufresne: The silent silent partner. He’s the guilty one, Your Honor. The man with the bank accounts. It’s where the filtering process starts. If they trace anything, it’s just gonna lead to him.
Red: But who is he?
Andy Dufresne: He’s a phantom, an apparition. Second cousin to Harvey the Rabbit. I conjured him out of thin air. He doesn’t exist, except on paper.
Red: Andy, you can’t just make a person up.
Andy Dufresne: Well sure you can, if you know how the system works, where the cracks are. It’s amazing what you can accomplish by mail. Mr. Stevens has a birth certificate, a driver’s license, social security number.
Red: You’re shitting me?
Andy Dufresne: If they ever trace any of those accounts, they’re gonna wind up chasing a figment of my imagination.
NO CLAIM,NO PAIN!!!
You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name, It felt good to be out of the rain. In the desert you cant remember your name, 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain.
Jackie Draper, Meet Jackie Paper!
Michele Bachman on Birth Certificate
"All I'm saying is there is only one person who can attest to the authenticity and that is the clerk of court in the county where he was born"