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Strategies & Market Trends : The Final Frontier - Online Remote Trading
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To: LPS5 who wrote (10725)3/13/2003 10:02:25 AM
From: eric012  Read Replies (1) of 12617
 
Aaargh. Talk about trading freedom for security, imagine the confluence of the following:

War that costs 120% of GNP
Printing Dollars (mortgaging future to facilitate)
Falling Dollar relative to other currencies
National Id Card

Man... We've just about go two feet on the Great Slippery Slope... Here's the scenario:
1) Raise taxes to pay for spent "money"
2) Currency Exchange Controls to prevent dollar flight
3) Travel, etc restricted by Nat Id Card (already approved!)
4) Integration of major gov databases (done deal as well)

Now imaginge if you've not paid enuf taxes. Or if you have an unpaid parking ticket from a vacation in Vegas last year...Can you imagine the forces that could be brought to bear? Taxes can be interpreted to deal with money laundering - which is a national security issue. And you can be held w/o habeus corpus for unlimited consecutive 6 month terms...

Think I'm paranoid? I guy just got arrested for wearing a "give peace a chance" T-shirt. A kid was just expelled from university for writing the Prez a letter criticizing war policy... I DARE you to try and buy a plane ticket with cash (you get a private exam in a windowless room) And a "pilot" program at Delta Airlines links the ticket counter girls with a database that shows where you live, where you bank, any offenses, etc... This is real, current events...You do the math... Privacy? Does anyone wonder about the net effect?

But I digress. Back to my padded room now...
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