And, if you think that is worrisome, consider this. A "pandemic response bill" currently making its way through the Massachusetts state legislature would allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwellings and destruction of citizen property and impose fines on citizens for noncompliance. If citizens refuse to comply with isolation or quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.
RON ________________________________ From: Katy Roodenko <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 3:47:19 PM Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Big Brother Well, Brazil is the only country who fingerprints US citizens in response to US requirement to fingerprint everybody (just for you to know). I actually wished that all other countries will do the same... Just not fair. Europe will not take your fingerprints when you come in (not so far but just for a symmetry I hope that they will do that soon - only from Americans, EU persons cross their borders inside the EU numerous countries without even bothering to take their passports with them, and clearly without being fingerprinted ). I do not see how pedophilia is being prevented by fingerprinting the teachers. Most cases include kids who just disappear, so I am not sure where to look for the fingerprints. And frankly, I do not want to give my fingerprints to my bank. There are many online-banks only, so I guess at some point I will opt to those ones. No fingerprinting. Fingerprinting for the drivers license totally shocked us, too. Where are those proud Americans who once were proud of not having any personal ID? Now it is SSN, drivers license, what not - and all is fingerprinted! Frankly, this two-years visit to USA totally opened my eyes. I had really different view on this country before I came... And yeah, I saw the "Life of Others"- the fact that they collect tons of useless info is ridiculous, but the point is that all this useless info can be always turned against you. Then you loose your job, your friends and you kill yourself. Don't forget - I spent my childhood in USSR, and oftentimes I see amazing similarities between USA and USSR. Very sad, isn't it? The only thing is that everybody has a big nice shiny gun... Forgetting that the real weapon is information. Anyways, people, I think that we are giving way too much info to our governments (not only here in US, although here it is really frightening). I will start looking for a nice big cave to hide away from being scanned. Hopefully with a huge underground/under-oceanic tunnel to run away to Europe without being fingerprinted. Katy
