The cost of getting your life back
Being an American, as I am, entails a truly awesome level of responsibility, not even counting any global-policeman, Pax Americana nonsense, which nobody here takes seriously anyway, except for select government officials and people who make a point of working the American flag into their daily wardrobes.
No, I'm talking about something more fundamental: as an American citizen, I'm responsible for protecting the assets of every lending institution licensed to do business in my vicinity. Granted, you won't find this explicitly stated in our legal code, but that's the unspoken assumption behind our identity theft laws.
