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Haven't you watched enough Science Fiction movies to know that as soon as a national ID card, token, or implant is required in order to purchase anything (including food), travel anywhere, or engage in any form of trade, that your chip will be deactivated by some faceless evil bureaucratic villain and you will be placed on the "Terrorist" watchlist? How many hundreds of thousands of people are already on the "No Fly" list, eh?

Furthermore, if you were American you would know that the United States Constitution does not constrain or apply to individual people (citizens) at all; it pertains to and constrains only the United States Government - or used to at least. Read it sometime, you might enjoy it.

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Wow, I thought my Karma would get mutilated, but right now my original message is at +4!

Please watch the video before you comment. It addresses each and every point you have all brought up. Most of all though, actually read the Constitution sometime. It's written for the common man and is easily understandable by anyone who will take the time to read it with care. Pay particular attention to the two different types of taxes that are authorized by the Constitution (hint: the 16th Amendment has nothing to do with it according to the Supreme Court).

Well said. Not to mention the fact that in addition to all the other BS, churches expect people to tithe 10% of their incomes. Except for a couple of times when I was a kid and watched some of the local holy rollers just for laughs (yes, I have witnessed people writhing around on the floor and "speaking in tongues" as it's called), the only time I went to the a church more than once was at a Unitarian church and I was curious to find out exactly what it is that the Unitarians believe and don't believe, but on my third visit the pastor/preacher/whatever hit me up for 10% of my income. I never did figure out what the Unitarians do/don't believe. ;-)

My Religion Webpage

False. Guns banned in California are readily available in Russia:
http://ron.dotson.net/guns/sb23-russia.htm

I wish I had some mod points to give you.
See also:
http://ron.dotson.net/diary/ussa.htm

Yes we are presently living in a police state, and you'd better fasten your seat belts and hunker down because it's going to get worse before it gets better. The only thing we can do in the present environment is to keep a low profile until more people realize the danger and a resistance movement large enough to effect change can be organized - just as our founding fathers did against the dictator King George in 1776.

See also:
http://ron.dotson.net/gov/govkills.htm

Beware the Wrath of God!

Hosea 13:16: Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

I for one have never quite understood your paranoia about the government.

For starters how about my own "Government Murders" webpage?

What the hell is that supposed to mean? May I remind you that the original purpose of the federal government was primarily to resolve disputes among the states? There was no individual income tax, and the federal budget primarily consisted only of the money required to pay Congressmen's salaries. These days the federal government consumes about 40% of the GNP and is tantamount to an oligarchy. Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution grants Congress only 19 specific powers, and none of them (except for counterfeiting) permits the federal government to pass laws regulating the conduct of individual citizens. Such laws were only within the purview of the individual states.

Inasmuch as one of the primary purposes of the government is the defense of the country, the present 18% budget expenditure on defense is probably justified, but other than that all the myriad entitlement programs, federal government agencies, etc., could and should be eliminated, resulting in a federal government that is minuscule compared to it's present ponderous and burdensome size.

We compound our worries beyond all reason. Life expectancy in the United States has doubled during the twentieth century. We are better able to cure and control diseases than any other civilization in history. Yet we hear that phenomenal numbers of us are dreadfully ill. In 1996 Bob Garfield, a magazine writer, reviewed articles about serious diseases published over the course of a year in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and USA Today. He learned that, in addition to 59 million Americans with heart disease, 53 million with migraines, 25 million with osteoporosis, 16 million with obesity, and 3 million with cancer, many Americans suffer from more obscure ailments such as temporomandibular joint disorders (10 million) and brain injuries (2 million). Adding up the estimates, Garfield determined that 543 million Americans are seriously sick-a shocking number in a nation of 266 million inhabitants. "Either as a society we are doomed, or someone is seriously double-dipping," he suggested.

More Guns, Less Crime : Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Studies in Law and Economics) by John R. Lott, Jr.

Unintended Consequences (A classic)

http://ron.dotson.net/guns.htm (Shameless plug for my own Gun page)