PURPOSE

The following post, with supporting documentation and data, outlines why individuals must REFUSE the microchip and must be aware of RFID tags that have been placed in a vast number of clothing, boot and shoe products that are purchased today from any retail establishment.

Recent (9-21-09) patents by VeriChip to develop implantable virus detection microchips, cell phones with GPS and RFID capability, recent recommendations from the Secretary of Health and Human Services to add influenza viruses to the list of communicable diseases covered by the Center for Disease Control & Prevention, are key indicators why a Universal Health Care System would lead to humans being TOTALLY CONTROLLED BY THE US GOVERNMENT and soon there after,  A  ONE  WORLD  GOVERNMENT.

It is interesting that Daniel The Prophet in Chapter 7:25 (NIV) stated: … He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time.

The BIG BROTHER System much ALREADY ON-LINE The Liberty Tree Lantern is going to try to inform you about – A combination of computer hardware, software, people, processes and procedures to achieve an end result.

You also have to understand, the U.S. Government has no choice but to somehow find a way to control and track each of us because “The MATRIX” our economy based on Monopoly money printed out of thin air, is not sustainable.  After a boom that this writer calls the “Supernova Effect”, just like what happened before Black Friday of 1929, that will last 6 months to a year and a half or so, the whole American economy will collapse as a result of “hyper-inflation” almost overnight.  The collapse of “The Matrix” named after the movie in that nothing that we can see, touch or smell has been actually purchased or paid for and so in a “financial sense” it doesn’t exist but in our minds that ‘think’ all the things that surround us have been paid for or are being paid (but how can they really be paid for with dollars simply printed out of thin air which are worth 4 cents or less of actual supporting value?).  So you see, if the Government is to survive in it’s current unconstitutional form, they have to do what The Liberty Tree Lantern is going to expose to you below.  The US Government could survive if they would follow the law of the Constitution as per Article 1 Section 8 as further supported by the 9th and 10th Amendments in The Bill of Rights; but, obviously that means that the Government would collapse down to the size, scope and spending authorized in The Constitution, which the occupants of the Government consider impossible and will call it death of the Government.  We would call it FREEDOM, Liberty and wealth for individual common working Americans because we and our economy would get to keep almost everything we earn as individuals.

Connect the following sub-systems:

World Health Organization (WHO) H1N1 Pandemic

24 September 2009 | GENEVA

Regulatory authorities have licensed pandemic vaccines in Australia, China and the United States of America, soon to be followed by Japan and several countries in Europe.  The length of the approval process depends on factors such as each country’s regulatory pathway, the type of vaccine being licensed, and the stage of manufacturers’ readiness to submit appropriate information to regulatory authorities.

THE NEED

The WHO currently estimates worldwide production capacity for pandemic vaccines at approximately 3 billion doses per year.  While this figure is lower than previously projected, early data from clinical trials suggest that a single dose of vaccine will be sufficient to confer protective immunity in healthy adults and older children, effectively doubling the number of people who can be protected with current supplies.

These supplies will still be inadequate to cover a world population of 6.8 billion people in which virtually everyone is susceptible to infection by a new and readily contagious virus. Global manufacturing capacity for influenza vaccines is limited, inadequate and not readily augmented.

Centers for Disease Control And Prevention

Title 42 United States Code Section 264 (Section 361 of the Public Health Service [PHS] Act) gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) responsibility for preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States and within the United States and its territories/possessions. This statute is implemented through regulations found at 42 CFR Parts 70 and 71. Under its delegated authority, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is empowered to detain, medically examine, or conditionally release individuals reasonably believed to be carrying a communicable disease.

Under the procedures required under the PHS Act, the list of diseases for which quarantine is authorized must first be specified in an Executive Order of the President, on recommendation of the HHS Secretary. By amending the list to include types of influenza that either cause or have the potential to cause a pandemic, HHS is simply taking the pragmatic step of readying all options as it monitors the emergence of these viruses and makes plans to prevent their spread.

In the event a passenger infected with a novel influenza strain were to arrive in the United States on board an international conveyance (e.g., boat, airplane), the Executive Order provides HHS with clear legal authority to isolate an ill passenger to prevent the passenger from infecting others. This authority would be used only if someone posed a threat to public health and refused to cooperate with a voluntary request.

In general, CDC defers to the state and local health authorities in their primary use of their own separate quarantine powers. Based upon long experience and collaborative working relationships with our state and local partners,  CDC continues to anticipate the need to use this federal authority to quarantine an exposed person only in rare situations, such as events at ports of entry or in similar time-sensitive settings.

… HHS has recommended that influenza caused by new or re-emerging influenza viruses that are either 1.) causing a pandemic or 2.) are not in global circulation among humans and have the potential to cause pandemics should be added to the list of communicable diseases for which apprehension, isolation, detention, or conditional release are authorized.  This recommendation is based not on intent to impose any quarantine restrictions right now, but rather so that the United States is prepared to respond efficiently and effectively in case of an emergency outbreak situation caused by these influenza viruses, which pose a real threat of global pandemic.

VeriChip Corporation Sub-System

http://www.verichipcorp.com/ 

Monday Sept. 21, 2009 3:21 pm EDT

VeriChip shares Jump after H1N1 patent license win.

(Reuters) – Shares of VeriChip Corp (CHIP.O) tripled after the company said it had been granted an exclusive license to two patents, which will help to develop implantable virus detection systems in humans.

The technology will combine with VeriChip’s implantable Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) to develop virus triage detection systems.

The triage system will provide multiple levels of identification – the first will identify the agent as virus or non-virus, the second level will classify the virus and alert the user to the presence of pandemic threat viruses and the third level will identify the precise pathogen, VeriChip said in a white paper published May 7, 2009.

AN INTEGRATED SENSOR SYSTEM FOR THE DETECTION OF BIO-THREATS

FROM PANDEMICS TO EMERGING DISEASES TO BIOTERRORISM

WHITE PAPER

07 MAY 2009

Bio-Sensing Chip

The product and market prototype system will focus on the development of a pandemic virus triage system based on critical virus sensors, especially pandemic agents like H1N1 (SWINE FLU), H5N1 (BIRD FLU) and SARS.

The product will be implanted in YOU to be effective.

Required to achieve the end result!

Critical Virus Sensors

The triage system will provide multiple levels of identification;

The first will identify the agent as virus or non-virus,

The second level will classify the virus and alert the user to the presence of pandemic threat viruses,

The third level will identify the precise pathogen. Specific commercialization goals will include Point-of-Intercept to Point-of-Care, that is, from field to healthcare, sensors.

VeriChip Implant

Current Example to Follow

Illustration of an implantable glucose sensor which houses an integrated sensing system with signal transduction and RFID communication capability.

VeriChip Corporation, headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida, has developed the VeriMed Health Link System for rapidly and accurately identifying people who arrive in an emergency room and are unable to communicate. This system uses the first human-implantable passive RFID microchip and corresponding personal health record, cleared for medical use in October 2004 by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

VeriChip

On September 8, 2009, Steel Vault announced it agreed to be acquired by VeriChip Corporation to form PositiveID Corporation.

PositiveID will provide identification technologies and tools to protect consumers and businesses. The companies expect the merger to close in the fourth quarter of 2009.

VeriChip Sub-System

About the size of a grain of rice, the microchip is inserted just under the skin and contains only a unique, 16-digit identifier. The microchip itself does not contain any other data other than this unique electronic ID, nor does it contain any Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking capabilities. And unlike conventional forms of identification, the Health Link cannot be lost, stolen, misplaced, or counterfeited. It is safe, secure, reversible, and always with you.

VeriChip Radio Frequency Identification

Here we have a company that produces the human implanted microchip that contains a unique, 16 digit identifier. This 16 digit number is adequate to cover all the people on planet earth. VeriChip states that the chip does not contain any GPS tracking capabilities; however what it does contain is critical:

RFID FUNCTIONALITY

Gentag Sub-System

Gentag Announces New RFID Cell Phone Patent

Posted on February 18, 2009 @ 03:27 pm

Gentag Inc. announced that Patent 7,492,254 “Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Based Sensor Networks”, covering the uses of cell phones to read remote disposable RFID wireless sensors for homeland security applications.

Patent 7,492,254 covers a number of transportation and homeland security markets for reading disposable wireless RFID sensors with cell phones, to allow government officials, DoD, police, the shipping industry, and consumers to immediately identify threats with their cell phones.  The patent specifically covers the screening of shipping boxes, containers, trains or aircraft with RFID cell phones.

“The issuance of this new patent is an important step toward our vision to create low ubiquitous cell phone-sensor networks”, announced Dr. John P. Peters, the founder of Gentag.  “Our cell phone-sensor patents now cover both sensors on the cell phones or the ability to use cell phones to read remote RFID sensors for chemical, biological or radiological threats.”

Two Minute Warning Definition

Ubiquitous

Existing or being everywhere at the same time.

Constantly encountered

(Isn’t that Special?)

TIME, PERHAPS, for a little reading from Revelation 12:11 & 12

They overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony, they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.  (If this is going down will you shrink from your duty to God and your country?)

Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.

Who is really behind all of this…..

Gentag Sub-System

Gentag’s issued patents cover the uses of cell phones as RFID sensor readers. The technology empowers consumers to detect virtually anything, anywhere, and for almost any application.  Korean companies were the first to start embedding RFID readers in their cell phones (see “Honing Its Digital Game”). More recently, major technology leaders, including Sony and Qualcomm have also announced integration of the technology into their cell phones.

Cell phones are perfect for consumer-based sensor networks because:

• Cell phones feature powerful processors for analyzing sensor data.
• Cell phones are ubiquitous.
• Cell phones are networked.
• Cell phones can be geolocated, in real time, for emergency needs.

Gentag’s goal is to redefine consumer-based diagnostic capabilities by enabling consumers’ cell phones to access and read any RFID tag or sensor tag, ANYWHERE!

Craftiness of Gentag Sub-System

The craftiness of using cell phones, makes it capable of “passively” reading RFID tags from inches to 10 feet away.  Cell phones with GPS and RFID capability will be able to communicate to a centralized database. Your unique data can be read when you get in close proximity to someone with an enabled phone. (Yours or someone else.) Other RFID readers or sensors will be placed at key commercial locations: banks, hospitals, police stations/vehicles, airports and other retail establishments.

Cell Phone Data Stream Sub-System

• Date / Time Stamp
• ID of transmitting device
• Unique identifier of the RFID read. (Either an active or passive read.)
• Conditional data from biosensing elements determined by manufacturer of implanted device.
• GPS position. Latitude and Longitude.
• Altitude
• Other data in stream as required.
• Destination of Data Stream

Universal Health Care – Where Does the Data Stream Go?

Chairman’s Mark – America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009

Scheduled for Markup, By the Senate Committee on Finance on September 22, 2009  PG. 186

“One PI” Integrated Data Repository (IDR).

Universal Health Care Sub-System

The Chairman’s Mark would require CMS to complete development of the comprehensive “One PI” Integrated Data Repository (IDR). The “One PI” IDR would expand existing program integrity data sources and expand data sharing and data matching across Federal health care claims and payment data (including HHS, SSA, the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA), Defense (DoD), and Justice (DoJ)).

The “One PI” IDR would enable existing and new data sources to be integrated, such as:

1. Quality-of-care under fee for service, managed care, and waivers.
2. Medicaid encounters data.
3. Health plan performance.
4. Ownership, control and business relationships.
5. Survey and certification
6. Resident / patient neglect or abuse.
7. Adverse action (Isn’t that Special?  They mean adverse to Government “orders”.)
8. Site visits.
9. Penalties and settlements.
10. Data on results from other program monitoring.  (You can just about imagine the menagerie of “programs” the Government would monitor for compliance. )

The creation of ONE centralized database where vast amounts of data on US citizens will be located and maintained. This “information” will come, or get populated from all key federal, state and newly created databases. The one critical element to manage the database is a “unique number” for each person in the database. (You want healthcare for “everyone” correct.) The nation will not have 100% physical coverage to answer issues that relate to a Pandemic, national disaster, civil disorder or other significant events unless all persons on US soil are implanted and TRACKED. Health care must cover illegal aliens as well as all US citizens.

This “unique number” comes from the CHIP!

Geodan Sub-System

http://www.geodan.com/organisation/about-geodan/

Geodan sells the computer software named Movida. It is one of Geodan’s solutions that offers a host of versatile wireless solutions based on various technologies, such as GSM, SMS, GPRS, UMTS, Wi-Fi, GPS, RFID, and ultra bandwidth location. All solutions are basically location and identification services that can be implemented into existing systems via the standardized location protocol OpenLS.Sevices built on both passive and active technologies that are capable of retrieving and sending location specific information according to specifications.

Geodan Movida: award-winning platform for enterprise location and RFID solutions.

Geodan Movida is the most sophisticated platform available on the market to create real-time location awareness applications for business and enterprise customers.

With Geodan Movida, organizations can:

• Identify and locate in real-time people or assets, seamlessly, wherever they are: on the road, in buildings or warehouses. 
• Generate information and alert-based intelligence to support the most demanding mission-critical applications. 
• Provide rich visualization capabilities, including 3D, for coordination and supervision.

The architecture is such that any new location method can be added very quickly making it possible to maintain the core of the software unchanged while providing the ability to expand the system to any current and future location technology. The list of supported technologies increases continuously.

All location methods can be used simultaneously by the same application and for the same user. For instance, a user may be located with GPS outdoors and RFID indoors simultaneously, while another is located with telecom-based Cell-ID, both within the same application.

Conclusion – It’s All About Control

A System – A combination of computer hardware, software, people, processes and procedures to achieve an end result.

• Sub-Systems:
  • Nation’s 3G, 4G Networks
  • Internet Service Providers (ISP)
  • Telecom Providers & Cell Providers
  • VeriChip, or like companies
  • Gentag, or like companies
  • Geodan, or like companies
  • US Government – Universal Health Care.  There’s nothing like it.
  • Media
  • General Motors (Government Motors) (OnStar)
  • YOU

Once position tracking begins, an individuals current location is maintained real-time in an active Integrated Data Repository (IDR). This will also generate a history of where the person has been, from which data analysis is available.

An outbreak in one area of the country will allow authorities to track a person’s travels and who they had contact with. (Don’t worry about how, the software will just do it.)

Create a 3 Dimensional (3D) view. To include not only ground level (Two Dimensional 2D), but 3D allows for a vertical placement which will include high-rise buildings, multi-floor structures, and aircraft.

Build a virtual picture of any place on Earth and in the sky; also known in some circles as the 1^st and 2^nd heavens.

Now determine hotspots and require response:

• Combined Federal Agencies
• Social Security -  Retirement
• Medicare  -  Medicaid
• Veterans Affairs – Veterans Retirements
• Federal Employees – Current and Retired
• US Military – All current active duty
• Banks controlled by the Government
• Automakers controlled by the government
• IRS
• State Unemployment Benefits

Anyone who refuses to get the implant voluntarily is in jeopardy of having all financial assets frozen, payments or wages cut off, and/or confined.

• No Social Security Check
• No Healthcare
• No Retirement Check
• No Paycheck
• No Business Transactions
• No Unemployment Checks
• No Travel
• No Money Coming In
• No unique ID to perform financial transactions.

So What Does This Really Mean?

There’s More, “The Devil Is In The Details”

NO   UNIVERSAL   HEALTHCARE!

If approved…….

Revelations 13:16-17 (NIV)

He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

….  The undeniable fact is that this county, our Constitutional principles, our freedom, and our greatness were clearly predicated on Christian values.  See: The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States by Benjamin F. Morris which was originally published in 1864 with hardcore facts and historical accounts.   This time period of drafting and publication protected the information from any form of politically correct spin or legalize which allows for its historically accurate purity.  So with that in mind, old Capt. Karl would like to submit the following to sooth our souls:

The Voice of Authority

… The Lord will carry out his sentence on Earth with speed and finality. Romans 9:28  (NIV)

Isaiah 45:22, (NIV)

“Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.”

Revelation 22:12-13 (NIV)

“Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.

Revelation 3:3 (NIV)

Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you 2will not know at what time I will come to you.

YOUR TWO MINUTES ARE UP!

*DECISION TIME *

“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.” -  Thomas Jefferson

• World Health Organization www.who.int/en/
• VeriChip Corp: www.verichipcorp.com
• Gentag Corp: www.gentag.com
• US Centers For Disease Control and Prevention:  www.cdc.gov
• US Gov’t, Senate Committee On Finance
• (B)asic  (I)nstructions  (B)efore   (L)eaving   (E)arth.   (BIBLE),  NIV Version

Now you know what IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.  What are YOU going to do about it?

I am Capt. Karl!  And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of tyranny. You’ve come to fight as free men…          and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom?   Will you fight?

Fight? Against that? No! We will run. And we will live.

Aye, fight and you may die.   Run, and you’ll live… at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!

Additional and Valuable Information You Need to Know on RFID Tags, Sensors and Transmission of Data Streams:

How RFID works:

 Neither powerful electromagnet nor even MRI will destroy implanted VeriChip:

 Numerous very powerful huge Corporations stop Mythbusters from researching VeriChip capabilities via corporate pressure:

 JUDGE NAPOLITANO – THE PEOPLE WILL REVOLT AGAINST FORCED SWINE FLU VACCINATIONS

Possible answer to jamb cell phone RFID scanners from forwarding ID information to U.S. Government central database:

The Ultimate Goal, by the Owners of THE FEDERAL RESERVE “SYSTEM” – One World Government:

Cell phone Jammer sales (Patriots…  When the U.S. Government declares martial law, for example using the “serious crisis” of Swine flu excuse or economic/systemic banking failure you better have a cell phone jammer or three at your disposal because the passive RFID chip in your clothing or shoes may be providing ID and tracking, in real time, your I.D., exact location and be able to bring up, via I.D. number encoded in the RFID, every single bit of your private information and exact location.  From that point the U.S. Government can remotely turn on a cell phone microphone anywhere in your vicinity and listen to your entire conversation, even if the cell phone is turned off.  What good will be our Second Amendment tyranny termination devises if the despots know our every step and hear every word in our meetings? The following link is one place to procure these BIG BROTHER prevention devises.  The Liberty Tree Lantern would advise that groups out there procure one or two of these for testing and then, upon successful results, start warehousing them for mass distribution to Patriot teams / I guess you could say Militia being necessary to a free State.  Remember time is getting very short.  Once the U.S. Government makes their move, all of these sources to purchase gear and equipment capable of protection from detection, spying, oppression and tyranny will be “obviously” completely shut down as surely as our Second Amendment rights: http://www.signalbuster.com/Scripts/default.asp

“If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.” –Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

This is why it is up to WE THE PEOPLE to ENFORCE our LAWs, NOT THE U.S. Government,  that WE THE PEOPLE wrote, established and ordained on the U.S. Government to stop the truth of the matter described in Thomas Paine’s paragraph above.  Soon we will all wake up homeless and destitute on the Continent our fathers conquered kneeling before the Socialist hands that feed us, unless we RISE UP and take care of our INDIVIDUAL and PERSONAL responsibilities as FREE MEN AND WOMEN.

If we don’t wake up and realize what our U.S. Goverment, both parties, has been doing TO US for decades, starting with The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and the sham of the ratification of The 16th Amendment and multitudes of Constitutional contempt ever since, we may very well lose literally everything we have including not only our earnings but property, rights, freedom and liberty to ever regain it back from the usurping tyrannical despots in all three branches of the U.S. Government.

© 2009 WorldNetDaily

The organization incorporated in 2004 as a not-for-profit under Iowa law and has been operating strictly within the guidelines for groups set up for religious, educational and charitable purposes, a letter sent to the IRS last week said.

“As detailed in its … narrative, the Coalition for Life carries out its tax-exempt work by sponsoring educational forums and coordinating with other like-minded groups to educate the public and otherwise promote sanctity of life principles,” the letter continues.

“The Coalition is aware that from time to time, individuals who may or may not be involved with the Coalition gather for prayer outside of a Planned Parenthood facility. These gatherings are consistently small (ten or fewer people), peaceful, not in any way disrupting, and consist solely of silent and spoken prayers,” the lawyer wrote.

 However, an IRS agent then contacted the Coalition, through its president Susan Martinek, demanding to know whether the group “engaged in any ‘picketing’ or ‘protest’ activities at Planned Parenthood. … You then asked Ms. Martinek to have all Coalition Board members sign a statement that the Coalition will not ‘picket’ or ‘protest’ outside of Planned Parenthood or similar organizations and will not ‘organize’ others to do so,” the law firm’s letter said.

Concerned over the sudden restrictions on free speech, freedom of association and freedom of religion rights, the Coalition contact legal counsel, and attorney Sally Wagenmaker said she contacted the IRS about the issue.

“You expressed the legally erroneous view that the Coalition is not allowed per se to engage in ‘advocacy’ as a section 501(c)(3) organization,” the attorney said.

“The IRS’ requests come perilously close to violating the First Amendment constitutional rights of the Coalition’s supporters, and they are not otherwise germane to the Coalition for Life’s pending … application . As you acknowledged verbally to me over the telephone, the Coalition’s application is now ripe for approval. The IRS’s delay and questioning … constitutes unnecessary and prejudicial interference with the Coalition’s legal right to a tax-exempt determination.”

“This is the way government oppression creeps into a society,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. “It starts when the government targets, and attempts to intimidate and silence the grassroots dissenters who will not dance to the tune of the Obama administration’s radically pro-abortion policies.”

“This is not only political intimidation by the Internal Revenue Service but it is a blatant violation of First Amendment rights,” Brown said. “Neither the Coalition for Life of Iowa nor any other educational and advocacy organization should be subjected to such discriminatory scrutiny. This is a clear case of government repression.”

Request to TV program Freedom Watch and the Honorable Judge Napolitano, the host:

Please feature Bob Schulz of the We the People Foundation & Congress [www.GiveMeLiberty.org] on Freedom Watch to present to the American people the history and status of the recent Redress of Grievances Lawsuit & Continental Congress 2009.

The Unalienable Right to Petition for Redress of Grievances, precedented even in England’s Magna Carta, is the background and very foundation upon which the Declaration of Independence was written and America was founded.

The founding fathers understood that the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches of government might someday fail in their duty to protect the people from tyranny.

Fortunately, the founders provisioned for two forms of legal means through which We the People can peacefully mandate limited government: 1. the ballot box; 2. the First Amendment Accountability Clause.

Unfortunately, the latter is also known as the “forgotten clause”, as barely any Americans are aware of it and even less are aware of its meaning. Further, the US Supreme Court has thus far refused to perform its duty in defining the meaning of these last 10 words of the First Amendment: “… and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The founding fathers also knew that unless the Right to Petition included the right to withhold money from the Federal government UNTIL the People’s grievances were remedied, their grievances might fall on deaf ears and liberty would give way to tyranny and involuntary servitude.

Therefore, within an act of the 1774 Continental Congress regarding Petitioning for Redress of Grievances, the founding fathers said:

“If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any manner oppressed the People, [the People] may retain [their money] until their grievances are redressed, and thus peaceably procure relief, without trusting to despised petitions or disturbing the public tranquility.”

Founders’ Advice: No Redress, NO TAXES!

Regardless of administration, the American Federal Government has continued to transgress its limitations of power and jurisdiction as granted to it by We the People through the US Constitution in various ways, most recently by the continuation of giving public money to corporations and private interests.

Over recent years, the We the People Foundation & Congress has initiated steps toward legally addressing the matter of mandating government accountability to the rule of law. However, thus far all three branches of government have ignored and/or stonewalled the lawsuit.

For a brief overview of and introduction to these efforts, visit this website to watch the 2-part 15 minute video: http://www.GiveMeLiberty.org/revolution.

Recorded in 2008, this gives a brief overview of the Petitions for Redress lawsuits presented to Congress and the Supreme Court, and the founders’ intent behind the last 10 words of the First Amendment: “… and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

If you find this interesting and would like to learn more, visit the following link to hear a more recent and detailed presentation by Bob Schulz regarding the State of America and the decision to hold a Continental Congress 2009: http://sites.google.com/site/wethepeoplenc/files.

This 80 minute audio file (CC2009_Asheville_1.29.09.16.mp3) is part of the Continental Congress 2009 Promotional Tour with Bob Schulz of We the People, recorded in Asheville, NC on Thursday, Jan 29. It covers in detail the history of our unalienable Right to Petition for Redress of Grievances as guaranteed by the Accountability Clause of the First Amendment, the recent lawsuits including the failure of Federal Government response in all three branches, and the apparent need for a CC2009 to determine a strategy in order to mandate a Constitutionally limited government accountable to the rule of law.

You can also visit the following site link to read and sign the Petitions for Redress: http://www.GiveMeLiberty.org/RTPLawsuit/SignPetitions.htm.

We the People have a lot of work to do in reforming the current runaway government, but it all starts with spreading libertarian education to our fellow Americans. GiveMeLiberty.org will be continually updated to help in this process, including making important announcements regarding the Continental Congress 2009.

PLEASE help spread this information to everyone!

You wonder why we have a financial crisis.  You wonder why we have an economic crisis.  You wonder where all the money for the economy, that sustains it, runs it, that creates jobs, wages and salaries – you wonder where’s the money.   THE ANSWER FOLKS, the money is in NON-PRODUCTIVE GOVERNMENT.  You see, Governments DO NOT PRODUCE ANYTHING to put back into the economy.  They do not manufacture anything.  They do not contribute.  Government only sucks money out of the economy.  Just like the teachers written about in the following article.  All these “UNION” teachers do is suck MILLIONS of dollars right out of our pockets, all without doing ANYTHING productive to place any value back into the economy from where they suck hind tit.

The following is just one of thousands and thousands of examples of Government insanity in the form of wasting our money and the money from our economy.  This is just one of mountainous piles from where the money the drives our economy is disappearing into thin air.

You see folks; Government is not the solution to our current problem, Government IS THE PROBLEM.  If we ENFORCE Constitutional Law on our Government, where they are only “ALLOWED” by existing laws to perform “ENUMERATED” powers “listed” in The Constitution and nearly all of these sorts of things will disappear and Government will only be 1/5th its current size at best (or worst).

How long is it going to take before you’re not going to take it anymore?  We all can rise-up and force our Government, via our Constitutional Laws, to stop this nonsense.  We have the power, but we need the conviction.

NEW YORK —  Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that’s what they want to do.

“You just basically sit there for eight hours,” said Orlando Ramos, who spent seven months in a rubber room, officially known as a temporary reassignment center, in 2004-05. “I saw several near-fights. `This is my seat.’ `I’ve been sitting here for six months.’ That sort of thing.”

Ramos was an assistant principal in East Harlem when he was accused of lying at a hearing on whether to suspend a student. Ramos denied the allegation but quit before his case was resolved and took a job in California.

“It is extremely difficult to fire a tenured teacher because of the protections afforded to them in their contract,” spokeswoman Ann Forte said.

City officials said that they make teachers report to a rubber room instead of sending they home because the union contract requires that they be allowed to continue in their jobs in some fashion while their cases are being heard. The contract does not permit them to be given other work.

Ron Davis, a spokesman for the United Federation of Teachers, said the union and the Department of Education reached an agreement last year to try to reduce the amount of time educators spend in reassignment centers, but progress has been slow.

“No one wants teachers who don’t belong in the classroom. However, we cannot neglect the teachers’ rights to due process,” Davis said. The union represents more than 228,000 employees, including nearly 90,000 teachers.

Many teachers say they are being punished because they ran afoul of a vindictive boss or because they blew the whistle when somebody fudged test scores.

“The principal wants you out, you’re gone,” said Michael Thomas, a high school math teacher who has been in a reassignment center for 14 months after accusing an assistant principal of tinkering with test results.

City education officials deny teachers are unfairly targeted but say there has been an effort under Mayor Michael Bloomberg to get incompetents out of the classroom. “There’s been a push to report anything that you see wrong,” Forte said.

Some other school systems likewise pay teachers to do nothing.

The Los Angeles district, the nation’s second-largest school system with 620,000 students, behind New York’s 1.1 million, said it has 178 teachers and other staff members who are being “housed” while they wait for misconduct charges to be resolved.

Similarly, Mimi Shapiro, who is now retired, said she was assigned to sit in what Philadelphia calls a “cluster office.” “They just sit you in a room in a hard chair,” she said, “and you just sit.”

Teacher advocates say New York’s rubber rooms are more extensive than anything that exists elsewhere.

Teachers awaiting disciplinary hearings around the nation typically are sent home, with or without pay, Karen Horwitz, a former Chicago-area teacher who founded the National Association for the Prevention of Teacher Abuse. Some districts find non-classroom work — office duties, for example — for teachers accused of misconduct.

New York City’s reassignment centers have existed since the late 1990s, Forte said. But the number of employees assigned to them has ballooned since Bloomberg won more control over the schools in 2002. Most of those sent to rubber rooms are teachers; others are assistant principals, social workers, psychologists and secretaries.

Once their hearings are over, they are either sent back to the classroom or fired. But because their cases are heard by 23 arbitrators who work only five days a month, stints of two or three years in a rubber room are common, and some teachers have been there for five or six.

The nickname refers to the padded cells of old insane asylums. Some teachers say that is fitting, since some of the inhabitants are unstable and don’t belong in the classroom. They add that being in a rubber room itself is bad for your mental health.

“Most people in that room are depressed,” said Jennifer Saunders, a high school teacher who was in a reassignment center from 2005 to 2008. Saunders said she was charged with petty infractions in an effort to get rid of her: “I was charged with having a student sit in my class with a hat on, singing.”

The rubber rooms are monitored, some more strictly than others, teachers said.

“There was a bar across the street,” Saunders said. “Teachers would sneak out and hang out there for hours.”

Judith Cohen, an art teacher who has been in a rubber room near Madison Square Garden for three years, said she passes the time by painting watercolors of her fellow detainees.

“The day just seemed to crawl by until I started painting,” Cohen said, adding that others read, play dominoes or sleep. Cohen said she was charged with using abusive language when a girl cut her with scissors.

Some sell real estate, earn graduate degrees or teach each other yoga and tai chi.

David Suker, who has been in a Brooklyn reassignment center for three months, said he has used the time to plan summer trips to Alaska, Cape Cod and Costa Rica. Suker said he was falsely accused of throwing a girl’s test sign-up form in the garbage during an argument.

“It’s sort of peaceful knowing that you’re going to work to do nothing,” he said.

Philip Nobile is a journalist who has written for New York Magazine and the Village Voice and is known for his scathing criticism of public figures. A teacher at Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill School of American Studies, Nobile was assigned to a rubber room in 2007, “supposedly for pushing a boy while I was breaking up a fight.” He contends the school system is retaliating against him for exposing wrongdoing.

He is spending his time working on his case and writing magazine articles and a novel.

“This is what happens to political prisoners throughout history,” he said, alluding to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “They put us in prison and we write our `Letter From the Birmingham Jail.’”

New Brit report: Authorities have ‘right to access of the home’

Posted: June 16, 2009
9:16 pm Eastern

© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Editor’s note: This is the second of a series of monthly “Freedom Index” polls conducted exclusively for WND by the public opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies.

WASHINGTON – It may be the issue few in the media dare address, but a new scientific public opinion survey of a cross-section of Americans shows they are not only aware of questions about Barack Obama’s constitutional eligibility for office, but almost half are either “troubled” by the questions or believe he should release all relevant documents including his long-form birth certificate.  

Asked if they are aware of the questions raised about Obama’s constitutional eligibility for office, 51.3 percent answered affirmatively, while only 18.7 percent said no. Another 30 percent said they were unsure.

“Our polling shows that the questions surrounding Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve as president clearly strike a nerve across America, probably because it is a problem that everybody understands,” said pollster Fritz Wenzel. “Every American citizen has a birth certificate, and once in a while we all have to produce them to get a drivers license or gain entrance to school. Everyone understands the simple rules – if you don’t produce it, you don’t get in. And while Obama did get in to the White House, nearly half the country’s adults – 49 percent – are troubled by this issue and still want him to produce his official long-form birth certificate.”

Among Republicans, 58.2 percent said they were aware, while 49 percent of Democrats acknowledged knowing about the questions. The higher the income of those questioned, the more likely they were to answer yes.

“There’s not much variance across demographic groups on the question, with the exception of race, where whites were far more likely than blacks to be troubled by Obama’s refusal to produce the original birth certificate,” said Wenzel. “It is interesting to note that Obama’s own age cohort – those in their 40s and 50s – were more likely than any other age groups to want the new president to prove he is eligible for the job.”

When asked what their view of the questions was, 41.5 percent of respondents answered that Obama should release all relevant documents, including the long-form birth certificate. Another 7.8 percent said they were “troubled” by the questions.

Others (12.3 percent) said they were “not concerned,” while 9.2 percent said the questions were not valid and 14.3 percent said Obama had met the requirements as a “natural born citizen.” Another 8.5 percent said Obama had answered the questions to their satisfaction, while 6.3 percent said the requirements of the Constitution were simply outdated.

The WND/Wenzel survey was conducted June 6–10 using an automated telephone technology calling a random sampling of listed telephone numbers nationwide. The survey included 22 questions and carries a 95 percent confidence interval. It included 790 adult respondents. It carries a margin of error of +/– 3.5 percentage points.

Data from this survey also showed that a substantial majority – 56 percent – also wants Obama to release his educational records, which would yield more clues to his early life and citizenship. Among men, 62 percent said those school records should be released.

“These are questions that are not on the front pages right now, but they are far from going away – and people clearly want answers,” said Wenzel. “As long as they go unanswered, they act like a low-grade fever that hampers everything Obama is attempting to do in office. And they could flare up at any time.”

The questions were asked along with a series about personal freedoms.

“There’s another interesting twist here – in that this survey showed that nearly half of American adults nationwide think personal freedoms have decreased under Obama,” said Wenzel. “At a time when there is substantial unease over Obama’s dramatic intervention in the U.S. auto industry and his promise of swift action to overhaul the national health care system, many want this man who is exercising such power to remake our country to prove once and for all that he is qualified to wield such power.”

Fritz Wenzel is president of Wenzel Strategies a public opinion research and media consulting company. Formerly associated with Zogby International, he spent 25 years as a news and political reporter for major metro dailies.

David Gratzer

Mountain-bike enthusiast Suzanne Aucoin had to fight more than her Stage IV colon cancer. Her doctor suggested Erbitux—a proven cancer drug that targets cancer cells exclusively, unlike conventional chemotherapies that more crudely kill all fast-growing cells in the body—and Aucoin went to a clinic to begin treatment. But if Erbitux offered hope, Aucoin’s insurance didn’t: she received one inscrutable form letter after another, rejecting her claim for reimbursement. Yet another example of the callous hand of managed care, depriving someone of needed medical help, right? Guess again. Erbitux is standard treatment, covered by insurance companies—in the United States. Aucoin lives in Ontario, Canada.

When Aucoin appealed to an official ombudsman, the Ontario government claimed that her treatment was unproven and that she had gone to an unaccredited clinic. But the FDA in the U.S. had approved Erbitux, and her clinic was a cancer center affiliated with a prominent Catholic hospital in Buffalo. This January, the ombudsman ruled in Aucoin’s favor, awarding her the cost of treatment. She represents a dramatic new trend in Canadian health-care advocacy: finding the treatment you need in another country, and then fighting Canadian bureaucrats (and often suing) to get them to pick up the tab.

But if Canadians are looking to the United States for the care they need, Americans, ironically, are increasingly looking north for a viable health-care model. There’s no question that American health care, a mixture of private insurance and public programs, is a mess. Over the last five years, health-insurance premiums have more than doubled, leaving firms like General Motors on the brink of bankruptcy. Expensive health care has also hit workers in the pocketbook: it’s one of the reasons that median family income fell between 2000 and 2005 (despite a rise in overall labor costs). Health spending has surged past 16 percent of GDP. The number of uninsured Americans has risen, and even the insured seem dissatisfied. So it’s not surprising that some Americans think that solving the nation’s health-care woes may require adopting a Canadian-style single-payer system, in which the government finances and provides the care. Canadians, the seductive single-payer tune goes, not only spend less on health care; their health outcomes are better, too—life expectancy is longer, infant mortality lower.

Thus, Paul Krugman in the New York Times: “Does this mean that the American way is wrong, and that we should switch to a Canadian-style single-payer system? Well, yes.” Politicians like Hillary Clinton are on board; Michael Moore’s new documentary Sicko celebrates the virtues of Canada’s socialized health care; the National Coalition on Health Care, which includes big businesses like AT&T, recently endorsed a scheme to centralize major health decisions to a government committee; and big unions are questioning the tenets of employer-sponsored health insurance. Some are tempted. Not me.

I was once a believer in socialized medicine. I don’t want to overstate my case: growing up in Canada, I didn’t spend much time contemplating the nuances of health economics. I wanted to get into medical school—my mind brimmed with statistics on MCAT scores and admissions rates, not health spending. But as a Canadian, I had soaked up three things from my environment: a love of ice hockey; an ability to convert Celsius into Fahrenheit in my head; and the belief that government-run health care was truly compassionate. What I knew about American health care was unappealing: high expenses and lots of uninsured people. When HillaryCare shook Washington, I remember thinking that the Clintonistas were right.

My health-care prejudices crumbled not in the classroom but on the way to one. On a subzero Winnipeg morning in 1997, I cut across the hospital emergency room to shave a few minutes off my frigid commute. Swinging open the door, I stepped into a nightmare: the ER overflowed with elderly people on stretchers, waiting for admission. Some, it turned out, had waited five days. The air stank with sweat and urine. Right then, I began to reconsider everything that I thought I knew about Canadian health care. I soon discovered that the problems went well beyond overcrowded ERs. Patients had to wait for practically any diagnostic test or procedure, such as the man with persistent pain from a hernia operation whom we referred to a pain clinic—with a three-year wait list; or the woman needing a sleep study to diagnose what seemed like sleep apnea, who faced a two-year delay; or the woman with breast cancer who needed to wait four months for radiation therapy, when the standard of care was four weeks.

I decided to write about what I saw. By day, I attended classes and visited patients; at night, I worked on a book. Unfortunately, statistics on Canadian health care’s weaknesses were hard to come by, and even finding people willing to criticize the system was difficult, such was the emotional support that it then enjoyed. One family friend, diagnosed with cancer, was told to wait for potentially lifesaving chemotherapy. I called to see if I could write about his plight. Worried about repercussions, he asked me to change his name. A bit later, he asked if I could change his sex in the story, and maybe his town. Finally, he asked if I could change the illness, too.

My book’s thesis was simple: to contain rising costs, government-run health-care systems invariably restrict the health-care supply. Thus, at a time when Canada’s population was aging and needed more care, not less, cost-crunching bureaucrats had reduced the size of medical school classes, shuttered hospitals, and capped physician fees, resulting in hundreds of thousands of patients waiting for needed treatment—patients who suffered and, in some cases, died from the delays. The only solution, I concluded, was to move away from government command-and-control structures and toward a more market-oriented system. To capture Canadian health care’s growing crisis, I called my book Code Blue, the term used when a patient’s heart stops and hospital staff must leap into action to save him. Though I had a hard time finding a Canadian publisher, the book eventually came out in 1999 from a small imprint; it struck a nerve, going through five printings.

Nor were the problems I identified unique to Canada—they characterized all government-run health-care systems. Consider the recent British controversy over a cancer patient who tried to get an appointment with a specialist, only to have it canceled—48 times. More than 1 million Britons must wait for some type of care, with 200,000 in line for longer than six months. A while back, I toured a public hospital in Washington, D.C., with Tim Evans, a senior fellow at the Centre for the New Europe. The hospital was dark and dingy, but Evans observed that it was cleaner than anything in his native England. In France, the supply of doctors is so limited that during an August 2003 heat wave—when many doctors were on vacation and hospitals were stretched beyond capacity—15,000 elderly citizens died. Across Europe, state-of-the-art drugs aren’t available. And so on.

But single-payer systems—confronting dirty hospitals, long waiting lists, and substandard treatment—are starting to crack. Today my book wouldn’t seem so provocative to Canadians, whose views on public health care are much less rosy than they were even a few years ago. Canadian newspapers are now filled with stories of people frustrated by long delays for care:

   vow broken on cancer wait times: most hospitals across canada fail to meet ottawa’s four-week guideline for radiation
   patients wait as p.e.t. scans used in animal experiments
   back patients waiting years for treatment: study
   the doctor is . . . out

As if a taboo had lifted, government statistics on the health-care system’s problems are suddenly available. In fact, government researchers have provided the best data on the doctor shortage, noting, for example, that more than 1.5 million Ontarians (or 12 percent of that province’s population) can’t find family physicians. Health officials in one Nova Scotia community actually resorted to a lottery to determine who’d get a doctor’s appointment.

Dr. Jacques Chaoulli is at the center of this changing health-care scene. Standing at about five and a half feet and soft-spoken, he doesn’t seem imposing. But this accidental revolutionary has turned Canadian health care on its head. In the 1990s, recognizing the growing crisis of socialized care, Chaoulli organized a private Quebec practice—patients called him, he made house calls, and then he directly billed his patients. The local health board cried foul and began fining him. The legal status of private practice in Canada remained murky, but billing patients, rather than the government, was certainly illegal, and so was private insurance.

Chaoulli gave up his private practice but not the fight for private medicine. Trying to draw attention to Canada’s need for an alternative to government care, he began a hunger strike but quit after a month, famished but not famous. He wrote a couple of books on the topic, which sold dismally. He then came up with the idea of challenging the government in court. Because the lawyers whom he consulted dismissed the idea, he decided to make the legal case himself and enrolled in law school. He flunked out after a term. Undeterred, he found a sponsor for his legal fight (his father-in-law, who lives in Japan) and a patient to represent. Chaoulli went to court and lost. He appealed and lost again. He appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. And there—amazingly—he won.

Chaoulli was representing George Zeliotis, an elderly Montrealer forced to wait almost a year for a hip replacement. Zeliotis was in agony and taking high doses of opiates. Chaoulli maintained that the patient should have the right to pay for private health insurance and get treatment sooner. He based his argument on the Canadian equivalent of the Bill of Rights, as well as on the equivalent Quebec charter. The court hedged on the national question, but a majority agreed that Quebec’s charter did implicitly recognize such a right.

It’s hard to overstate the shock of the ruling. It caught the government completely off guard—officials had considered Chaoulli’s case so weak that they hadn’t bothered to prepare briefing notes for the prime minister in the event of his victory. The ruling wasn’t just shocking, moreover; it was potentially monumental, opening the way to more private medicine in Quebec. Though the prohibition against private insurance holds in the rest of the country for now, at least two people outside Quebec, armed with Chaoulli’s case as precedent, are taking their demand for private insurance to court.

Rick Baker helps people, and sometimes even saves lives. He describes a man who had a seizure and received a diagnosis of epilepsy. Dissatisfied with the opinion—he had no family history of epilepsy, but he did have constant headaches and nausea, which aren’t usually seen in the disorder—the man requested an MRI. The government told him that the wait would be four and a half months. So he went to Baker, who arranged to have the MRI done within 24 hours—and who, after the test discovered a brain tumor, arranged surgery within a few weeks.

Baker isn’t a neurosurgeon or even a doctor. He’s a medical broker, one member of a private sector that is rushing in to address the inadequacies of Canada’s government care. Canadians pay him to set up surgical procedures, diagnostic tests, and specialist consultations, privately and quickly. “I don’t have a medical background. I just have some common sense,” he explains. “I don’t need to be a doctor for what I do. I’m just expediting care.”

He tells me stories of other people whom his British Columbia–based company, Timely Medical Alternatives, has helped—people like the elderly woman who needed vascular surgery for a major artery in her abdomen and was promised prompt care by one of the most senior bureaucrats in the government, who never called back. “Her doctor told her she’s going to die,” Baker remembers. So Timely got her surgery in a couple of days, in Washington State. Then there was the eight-year-old badly in need of a procedure to help correct her deafness. After watching her surgery get bumped three times, her parents called Timely. She’s now back at school, her hearing partly restored. “The father said, ‘Mr. Baker, my wife and I are in agreement that your star shines the brightest in our heaven,’ ” Baker recalls. “I told that story to a government official. He shrugged. He couldn’t fucking care less.”

Not everyone has kind words for Baker. A woman from a union-sponsored health coalition, writing in a local paper, denounced him for “profiting from people’s misery.” When I bring up the comment, he snaps: “I’m profiting from relieving misery.” Some of the services that Baker brokers almost certainly contravene Canadian law, but governments are loath to stop him. “What I am doing could be construed as civil disobedience,” he says. “There comes a time when people need to lead the government.”

Baker isn’t alone: other private-sector health options are blossoming across Canada, and the government is increasingly turning a blind eye to them, too, despite their often uncertain legal status. Private clinics are opening at a rate of about one a week. Companies like MedCan now offer “corporate medicals” that include an array of diagnostic tests and a referral to Johns Hopkins, if necessary. Insurance firms sell critical-illness insurance, giving policyholders a lump-sum payment in the event of a major diagnosis; since such policyholders could, in theory, spend the money on anything they wanted, medical or not, the system doesn’t count as health insurance and is therefore legal. Testifying to the changing nature of Canadian health care, Baker observes that securing prompt care used to mean a trip south. These days, he says, he’s able to get 80 percent of his clients care in Canada, via the private sector.

Another sign of transformation: Canadian doctors, long silent on the health-care system’s problems, are starting to speak up. Last August, they voted Brian Day president of their national association. A former socialist who counts Fidel Castro as a personal acquaintance, Day has nevertheless become perhaps the most vocal critic of Canadian public health care, having opened his own private surgery center as a remedy for long waiting lists and then challenged the government to shut him down. “This is a country in which dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week,” he fumed to the New York Times, “and in which humans can wait two to three years.”

And now even Canadian governments are looking to the private sector to shrink the waiting lists. Day’s clinic, for instance, handles workers’-compensation cases for employees of both public and private corporations. In British Columbia, private clinics perform roughly 80 percent of government-funded diagnostic testing. In Ontario, where fealty to socialized medicine has always been strong, the government recently hired a private firm to staff a rural hospital’s emergency room.

This privatizing trend is reaching Europe, too. Britain’s government-run health care dates back to the 1940s. Yet the Labour Party—which originally created the National Health Service and used to bristle at the suggestion of private medicine, dismissing it as “Americanization”—now openly favors privatization. Sir William Wells, a senior British health official, recently said: “The big trouble with a state monopoly is that it builds in massive inefficiencies and inward-looking culture.” Last year, the private sector provided about 5 percent of Britain’s nonemergency procedures; Labour aims to triple that percentage by 2008. The Labour government also works to voucherize certain surgeries, offering patients a choice of four providers, at least one private. And in a recent move, the government will contract out some primary care services, perhaps to American firms such as UnitedHealth Group and Kaiser Permanente.

Sweden’s government, after the completion of the latest round of privatizations, will be contracting out some 80 percent of Stockholm’s primary care and 40 percent of its total health services, including one of the city’s largest hospitals. Since the fall of Communism, Slovakia has looked to liberalize its state-run system, introducing co-payments and privatizations. And modest market reforms have begun in Germany: increasing co-pays, enhancing insurance competition, and turning state enterprises over to the private sector (within a decade, only a minority of German hospitals will remain under state control). It’s important to note that change in these countries is slow and gradual—market reforms remain controversial. But if the United States was once the exception for viewing a vibrant private sector in health care as essential, it is so no longer.

Yet even as Stockholm and Saskatoon are percolating with the ideas of Adam Smith, a growing number of prominent Americans are arguing that socialized health care still provides better results for less money. “Americans tend to believe that we have the best health care system in the world,” writes Krugman in the New York Times. “But it isn’t true. We spend far more per person on health care . . . yet rank near the bottom among industrial countries in indicators from life expectancy to infant mortality.”

One often hears variations on Krugman’s argument—that America lags behind other countries in crude health outcomes. But such outcomes reflect a mosaic of factors, such as diet, lifestyle, drug use, and cultural values. It pains me as a doctor to say this, but health care is just one factor in health. Americans live 75.3 years on average, fewer than Canadians (77.3) or the French (76.6) or the citizens of any Western European nation save Portugal. Health care influences life expectancy, of course. But a life can end because of a murder, a fall, or a car accident. Such factors aren’t academic—homicide rates in the United States are much higher than in other countries (eight times higher than in France, for instance). In The Business of Health, Robert Ohsfeldt and John Schneider factor out intentional and unintentional injuries from life-expectancy statistics and find that Americans who don’t die in car crashes or homicides outlive people in any other Western country.

And if we measure a health-care system by how well it serves its sick citizens, American medicine excels. Five-year cancer survival rates bear this out. For leukemia, the American survival rate is almost 50 percent; the European rate is just 35 percent. Esophageal carcinoma: 12 percent in the United States, 6 percent in Europe. The survival rate for prostate cancer is 81.2 percent here, yet 61.7 percent in France and down to 44.3 percent in England—a striking variation.

Like many critics of American health care, though, Krugman argues that the costs are just too high: “In 2002 . . . the United States spent $5,267 on health care for each man, woman, and child.” Health-care spending in Canada and Britain, he notes, is a small fraction of that. Again, the picture isn’t quite as clear as he suggests; because the U.S. is so much wealthier than other countries, it isn’t unreasonable for it to spend more on health care. Take America’s high spending on research and development. M. D. Anderson in Texas, a prominent cancer center, spends more on research than Canada does.

That said, American health care is expensive. And Americans aren’t always getting a good deal. In the coming years, with health expenses spiraling up, it will be easy for some—like the zealous legislators in California—to give in to the temptation of socialized medicine. In Washington, there are plenty of old pieces of legislation that like-minded politicians could take off the shelf, dust off, and promote: expanding Medicare to Americans 55 and older, say, or covering all children in Medicaid.

But such initiatives would push the United States further down the path to a government-run system and make things much, much worse. True, government bureaucrats would be able to cut costs—but only by shrinking access to health care, as in Canada, and engendering a Canadian-style nightmare of overflowing emergency rooms and yearlong waits for treatment. America is right to seek a model for delivering good health care at good prices, but we should be looking not to Canada, but close to home—in the other four-fifths or so of our economy. From telecommunications to retail, deregulation and market competition have driven prices down and quality and productivity up. Health care is long overdue for the same prescription.

Original article by American Thinker

By Harold Witkov

Many Americans today believe certain illegal vices in our society should be decriminalized, taxed, and regulated. The most popular of these vices include marijuana smoking, prostitution, and all forms of gambling. The proponents for decriminalization believe that the new tax revenues produced would help support schools, healthcare, and the impoverished, ease the pain of taxpayers, and reduce the deficit. They also believe that transgressions such as these will take place no matter, but, if properly regulated, would be safer for society in general. It would be a win, win situation.

Unfortunately, when it comes to lowering taxes and helping the downtrodden, the best-laid government plans seem to fall short of expectations. However, there is one vice, one small illegal indiscretion, that, if decriminalized would solve all our problems.  The United States needs to legalize the victimless crime known as counterfeiting.

Once legalized, counterfeiting would be for everyone. This could be accomplished by making Federal Reserve Note paper (complete with silk threads, watermarks, etc.) available to the public. With the correct paper, most computers with the right software would have no trouble replicating U.S. currency. If a household did not have a computer, special over- the-counter counterfeit kits could be made available, with instructions in both English and Spanish.

Once in place, universal counterfeiting would prove to be the ultimate stimulus package for the economy. Employees would always have enough money and never have to go on strike. Citizens would have no trouble paying their mortgages and never face foreclosure.  Everyone would gladly pay his or her taxes and there would be no need to have an IRS.

Free market consumerism would return with a flourish. People would purchase whatever they wanted and stores would only have to worry about having enough merchandise on hand. Stores could charge the consumer whatever they wanted and the consumer could still afford. Every shopping day would be like the day after Thanksgiving and the day before Christmas.

Once legalized, counterfeiting would still have to be regulated.  Parity and fairness would dictate that families earning over $250,000 would only be allowed to print $1, $2, $5 and $10 denominations. Families with combined incomes of less than $250,000 could print $20 and $50 bills. The unemployed could print $100 bills, and ACORN workers and UAW members would be entitled to counterfeit a new denomination, something even larger than the $100 bill (with President Obama on the front).

“There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong…. In fact it is only reestablishing under another name and a more specious form, force as the measure of right….”

–James Madison, letter to James Monroe, October 5, 1786

From The Constitution of The United States of America:

Article IV – The States

Section 4 – Republican government

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

See folks, we do not have a Democratic Government; rather we have a Republican form of Government.  This Republican is NOT the party affiliation.  It means we have a representative form of government so that 51% or more of our “Masses” do not manipulate, usurp, control, tyrannize the unalienable rights or “legally” steal through taxation from a minority or any individual. 

 The purpose of a “republican” form of government is to protect the rights of each and every INDIVIDUAL of our country regardless of race, color, creed, sex, age or level of wealth and prosperity.  All of us INDIVIDUALLY have equal rights even if we are in ANY form of minority.  That includes the “Rich” minority and the poor minority.  We all have the unalienable right of property.  With that fact none of us, singularly or as a large group or “mass”, has the right to rob other people’s property or earnings, through legalized non-apportioned taxation (an oxymoron BTW) of anybody else, even if they are in a minority; or in other words there are fewer of them than us.  Just because we would like more stuff or a better life, and our group has the larger “masses” to vote and/or support un-apportioned taxation that does not make it right or constitutionally or in view of “Natural Law”, legal to steal to take from one and give to another.  Having larger numbers of our group type does not make it right or Constitutionally legal to infringe on the unalienable rights of the minority, even considering how “caring and generous” our motives might be.

Even if our Federal or State Government/s call it “taxation” or “Income Taxes” it is not Constitutionally acceptable under the laws that state that we are all to have equal RIGHTS and the law that states that we are a republic.  This is a part of what is called “Natural Law” or the universal laws established in the universe by the creator.  These Natural Laws are the laws by which the laws in the Constitution were established, ultimately by God, to protect our individual unalienable rights equally, regardless of skin color, age, race, creed, sex or wealth as all men are created equal.

And that, folks, is what James Madison is talking about above.  Does force through shear numbers or “the masses”, make right?   – -  Capt. Karl