[macerico]

Ah. Now it makes sense.

I saw no problem with the "allegiance" part because, for what it's worth, I do "love" America and I would not betray it, but if it's all a word game (I owe no allegiance to the corporate fiction called the "United States" or any of its registered aliases), then indeed a passport is undoing what I've been trying to break away from.

Still, what does one do to travel abroad, or do you just accept that you can't?

This might be a loaded question since until recently, you didn't need a passport to travel in continental North America. Soon, they want to make it mandatory, but there are still wrenches in the works on that one.