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We still have that right for now in most situations unless the mayor decides to declare a "national emergency" in which case peaceful demonstraters (and in many cases buisness owners and patrons, oh and old ladies) are gassed, pepper sprayed, beaten, arrested, held at FEMA camps and charged fines to peacefully assemble and protest. Under the USA patriot act if Martial law (a red alert, u know the terror alert scale on the news) is declared control of the country is turned over to FEMA (federal emergency managment agency) and NORTHCOM (the military), if u are outside your house after curfew u are considered an enemy combatant.
National emergencies, and martial law, arent declared just because some politician feels like opressing their people. Think about why these are declared, and why it makes sense to imprison people who are blocking the police and military (who beleive it or not, are there to help you) when theres a flood, hurricane, earthquake, volcanic eruption, terrorist attack, or any number of other disasters.
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And the defenition of an enemy combatant or "terrorist" is anyone endangering human life that is in violation of federal or state law. Thats right, americans are to be considered enemy combatants, targets.
Yes, God forbid we send the police out to catch people who are violating the law and endangering lives.
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The "human bar code". It wont just have you as a blip on the radar, it will have your medical information, your criminal history, your financial status and may eventually replace paper money. In some places you can already voluntarily get a microchip implanted in your hand that contains your credit information and pay for things by simply swiping your hand. In some HEB's around the country you can already pay for your groceries by scanning your thumb. In many products you buy in your local target and Wal Mart (at least here in Texas, soon to be in your respective states) there are RFID tracking devices. It's interesting, on my 18th birthday i received a razor in the mail from Gillette. I never purchased a gillette product before in my life, never gave them any personal information or anything. These companies admittedly make profiles on people and use them to spam you with junk mail. In the case of some products, its set up to where the store cameras take a picture of you when u pick the item up and then another when u check out, all to make sure u paid for it, to increase profits and to alter marketing strategy. But these stores dont even feel obligated to let their customers know that they are being tracked.
This sounds quite convenient to me. I'd rather just run my thumb over a reader than have to deal with piles of coins. If I had a medical condition, I'd like to know that a paramedic could just scan my thumb and know what was wrong. Junk mail doesnt bother me, since it can be ignored. If you dont want the razor, throw it away. It's also within a stores rights to take photos of people in the store, the "security cameras are in use here" signs are a courtesy and a theft deterrent. If you dont want your photo taken, close your windows and stay inside.
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The de-industrialization of this country is NOT a good thing. Aside from taking jobs away from americans, did you know that clinton signed and executive order to give our only (1 of only 3) deep sea ports on the Pacific side of the country directly to the Chinese so that they can directly ship slave made products into the country and sell them in the 1 million square feet of strip mall they built right next to the port, for even cheaper than u can buy them at wal-mart. they are effectivley cutting out the middle-man (retail stores). It's interesting to know that deep sea ports are of strategic military importance, and OUR PRESIDENT JUST HANDED IT OVER TO THE COMMUNIST CHINESE!!!??? ARE U READING THIS!? we start and fund covert wars all over the world, and have been for decades to fight and prevent the spread of communism. We have fought 2 public wars in which 81,020 americans died and 256,587 more were wounded to PREVENT the spread of communism! THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!!! These men must be rolling over in their graves! and while the chinese do pay their "workers" less than 50 cents (i think it's somehere around 20 cents actaully) an hour for their work, im am pretty dang sure that they are forced to work there, this is actually going to be my next area of research, i have heard that a chinese man has made a documentary on the slave labor used in china and intend to find it and watch it.
You have a lot to learn about international relations I think. Trade is very important, especially with a country like China. China, since around the late 1980s, has undergone almost constant economic growth, as their government moves towards a capitalist system. This means theres a billion Chinese consumers starting to come into the world market for consumer goods. Its as much a help for US businesses (eg. car manufacturers) being able to sell to China's elite as it is for Chinese businesses being able to sell their cheap goods in the US. You may also be interested to find that things are much cheaper in China than the US. I know from talking to my filthy red communist chinese friends, even in the big cities, you can get a good meal for less than a dollar. 20 cents an hour may not seem like much, but its much more than these people could make outside the factories.
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Wil5on, power corrupts. What is in the best interest of those in power is gaining more power, what is in yours and my best intersest is to limit their power, so we can be free.
What is in the best interest of those in power is gaining more power. How do they gain more power? For politicians, they do this by getting more votes. If they do something against the will of the majority of the people, they lose votes, and lose power. If the government passes a bill tomorrow turning the US into a Combine-like police state, that government would have no chance of remaining in power after the next election. Either by the democratic process, or an armed rebellion, that government would lose its power. Hence, the government would avoid such an extreme measure. The system, over a long timeframe, is self-stabilising.
And on what you added while I was typing all this, I think you should research the name John Maynard Keynes. He is largely responsible for current economic thinking. I'd explain but I'm tired, but heres an article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes