The following letter was sent to John
Gibson of Internight, MSNBC
Privacy and DNA
July 10, 1999
Dear Mr. Gibson,
I watched your program last week when you had the
“control freaks” on who desire to have the DNA of all
Americans. Of course, one was a former
attorney general. What got me was
how he said “the government DNA data base would be protected by
law.” I would have liked to
have told him that back during the 30s when congress passed social security,
they would only do so with a law attached (section 208 42 U.S.C.408) paragraph
8, which says,
Whoever discloses, uses, or compels the
disclosure of the Social Security number of a person in violation of the laws
of the United States shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned for not more
than five years or both.
The congressman of the 30s refused to pass this social
program for fear we would someday all become a number. Social Security cards, until sometime in
the 60s, were all stamped “Not For
Identification Purposes.”
As all Americans know, we are now a number. And we find history is again repeating
itself — they are telling us we will protect your DNA with
“laws.” No one had much
to say when they started taking DNA from “convicted” felons, so now
we move to the next step: anyone
arrested without any due process, which leaves them one step more to come for
the rest of us.
And I assure you, they will, and make babies give it up at
birth, just as they are now numbered at birth. The next generation will never know what
it was like to have freedom and not be tracked and put into data bases and have
your every move under government surveillance. What is coming is not just collection of
a paper record, but of blood, and sperm.
Right now in congress, we have the Kennedy - Kassebaum “Health insurance portability and
accountability act.” It finds
that the public’s (the government’s) “need” to medical
records outweighs the patient’s “right” to all
confidentiality, which is, therefore, not a right at all. In a dramatic extension of its powers,
the Medicare-governing health care financing administration, or HCFA, is requiring all home health-care recipients to
submit to collection of 19 pages of information on their personal lives,
including patient history, living arrangements, finances, psychological
profiles and everything from sexual behavior to use of profanity. This information would be made available
to any health or life insurer, “health oversight agency,” employee
welfare benefits plan, law enforcement agency, or health or life insurer. No one would be allowed to buy insurance
or obtain medical service without signing “consent” to the
disclosure of personal medical information.
As all of these intrusions of an “Orwellian”
government under this administration are taking place, we Americans hear very
little about our secrets going to China.
They can keep track of millions of Americans and the one place they
should be watching, they fail. I
find that strange as hell.
The President got caught with his DNA and now he thinks
it’s a good idea to have ours.
Don’t get me wrong, all convicted felons and sex offenders, such
as him, should have their DNA on file and be made to sign up at the local
police station, and he should set this example. All congressman and senators should also
be monitored and be the first to give up their DNA and banking habits, and
sexual habits, and use of tobacco, and alcohol. They should be made to fill out a 19
page form with all of this information for the public. After all, we pay their salary and trust
them with our money and very lives.
It is time for us to demand twice the control over them as they demand
we submit to. Let’s test all
of these intrusions on them first, to see how well they work. Funny how they are the first to scream
about their “private lives” when caught with their pants down, in
government offices, on government time, with other government employees. Adultery becomes consensual sex,
consensual sex becomes not sex at all, and then it becomes no one’s
business.
Well, that’s my point — our life is none of
their business. Law abiding
citizens should not be in government data banks, and should not be told how to
live by the government, or monitored by the government. And if they insist that banks report to
them on your banking, it may be time to take your money out of the bank. Only you can stop this. If a few million people do this, they
will stop this practice real fast.
And if the media would stop kissing up to these tyrants who
are using the same methods Hitler used to grab power in Germany, it may not be
too late to stop this onslaught of our rights.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
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