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Privacy in Peril by James B Rule
Privacy in Peril

uncleknubs, December 29, 2007

As our country has progressed it has become increasingly despised by foreign entities.
Our Government has created an imperial presence
in the eyes of the rest of the world.
Because of this hatred from outside entities,
in order to survive, we need to
clamp down on a great amount of our freedoms or
close our borders and pull our noses out of the
rest of the worlds business.
Which one do you believe will happen?
Our Government has systematically been leading us down a path to our own
"Big Brother" scenario, slowly allowing more violations on the bill of rights to happen without regard to privacy laws.
The main goal of our Government IMO is to create a country that has a paperless monetary system 'No paper or coin money' and one that is all inclusive.
We have slowly went to credit cards and debit cards for a large percentage of our purchasing.
We have a medical card and a social security card and so on. It will not be a large move to combine all this information into one ‘National ID’ card that acts as a medical card, social security card, debit card and so on; one card for all our information, medically, financially, criminally, or otherwise
"And no one shall buy or sell without the number of the beast"
No I'm not getting into all of that, but you get my idea.
It will not be long before we are under a scrutiny and power that will not allow for any real privacy or much individuality.
One world order can't be far behind that.
The problem is who controls the monster?
How can we keep our bill of rights intact?
I say we can’t stop it because the average person just wants to get on with life and does not want to put their necks on the line or be bothered as long as they are comfortable.
By the time everyone realizes what has happened from this type of complacency it will be too late and we will be living with no limits to Government intrusion into all things personal and private. Didn’t we break from a very similar way of life back in the 1700’s?
How was that accomplished? I think what is coming in the near future will be far worse than that because it will be technologically controlled and it will have farther reaching tentacles that will make it near impossible to live outside it.
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