Lynda

Well, let's see, Bush has given your medical records to the feds, the angel
chip is a reality and now this. 1984 anyone???

Lynda
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> http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23282
>
> Big Brother is here
> © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
>
> The Oregon Senate has approved a plan to screen first-born children
> for medical and social problems, and the House is expected to follow
> suit.
> What exactly does this mean? I'm not 100 percent sure. But I know
> enough to tell it is an incredibly bad, hopelessly intrusive idea that
> makes George Orwell seem like a prophet.
> Backers of the plan, notably one Gov. John Kitzhaber, say that with so
> many broken, dysfunctional families, the state needs to do more to
> identify and help at-risk children.
> The plan calls for screening all first-born infants about 18,000 a
> year in the state for medical problems and risk factors that could
> lead to abuse or neglect, or cause children to fail in school. Nurses
> and other professional busybodies would have license to visit homes of
> new parents to check them out for drug use and alcohol problems among
> other things.
> Like what other things? Well, already hospitals and doctors in Oregon
> and elsewhere survey new parents on subjects such as whether they keep
> guns in the home. Children, too, are sometimes asked these questions
> in visits with pediatricians.
> In other words, this is about social engineering by the state not
> diagnosing medical problems. This is just another power play by
> government to see how far people will allow Big Brother to go in
> insinuating itself into the most intimate details of your private
> family life.
> And the sad part is there doesn't seem to be any understanding growing
> within our country that government is far exceeding its constitutional
> and proper authority. No one really seems to be all that concerned
> about invasions of privacy.
> The costs of such power plays are stunning.
> In Oregon, this program is expected to cost $66 million a year. That's
> a lot of money in a small state. In fact, if you took that money and
> merely redistributed it to the 18,000 families under scrutiny every
> year, you could gift them each $3,667.
> Now, I'm not into redistribution of wealth. But, if the goal were
> really to help these folks, which, of course, it isn't, don't you
> think the cash in the pocket would do more than the snooping?
> I'm amazed. I sit here continually astonished at the way Americans
> from coast to coast watch their freedoms disappear without a concern
> in the world. Think of the sacrifices that were made so that our
> country would not end up as another totalitarian gulag state. But we
> see ourselves plummeting down the slippery slope toward tyranny, and
> many of us embrace it because we feel more secure and safer under the
> watchful eyes of the nanny-state. It makes me sick.
> What can we do about it? That's the key question. Every day, people
> hopefully ask me how to stop these disturbing trends, reverse them,
> get our country back.
> The first step is always being informed understanding the threats and
> fighting them.
> A great resource for understanding the encroaching power of the state
> and other forces attacking our privacy rights is a new book by Michael
> Hyatt. It's a great primer, and it offers a blueprint for protecting
> yourself and fighting back.
> It's called "Invasion of Privacy: How to Protect Yourself in the
> Digital Age," and it is available in the WorldNetDaily online store.
> If you think I'm just simply hyping another product that happens to be
> in the WorldNetDaily store, sample it free for yourself.
> Last week, WorldNetDaily offered a serialization of the first chapter.
> The hotlinks to that series are offered below. Hyatt explains that
> privacy in our digital age is often literally a matter of life and
> death. Whether the invasions come from private companies or government
> agencies, there are always unintended consequences and hidden agendas
> behind the intrusions.
> It's time to say, "Enough is enough. I'm not going to take it
> anymore." It's time to just say no to the professional snoops
> especially those we pay with our hard-earned tax dollars.
> Related articles:
> Part 1: Why personal secrets are no more
> Part 2: Who's tracking you?
> Part 3: Is technology the problem?
> Joseph Farah is editor and chief executive officer of
> WorldNetDaily.com and writes a daily column.

Lynda

Actually, that has been discussed as I understand it. They are going to put
together one of those "nice" profiles so they will know "in advance" how
many children "may be in jeopardy."

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: <SandraDodd@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Fw: Big Brother is here. [This is scary]


> Well...
>
> It will create jobs!
>
> I wonder if a family's refusal to cooperate would be #1 on the risk-list
and
> result in their having their own social worker assigned to follow up to
see
> what they're hiding...
>
> Very scary.
>
> Sandra
>
> "Everything counts."
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