From: rats@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Morris the Cat)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: KIDSCAN - Electronic Big Brother.
Date: 2 Apr 92 16:06:35 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T


In <1992Apr1.222950.973@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu> Jim Mason states:

|The angle is perfect. It is easy to drive parents to paranoia about their
|kids safety. The kids are very much the property of their parents and
|suffer diminished rights when it comes to this style of intrusion. Any
|half-ass advertizer could concoct some horrific TV commercials demonstrating
|how this product can 'save' your child from something. If the price is
|right - and technology just gets better and cheaper - they could sell 
|millions of these things. 

|Another obvious use is for felons - especially those on parole or out on
|bail pending an appeal. Their location, and perhaps their activities, 
|could be easily monitored. After felons comes the mentally retarded, 
|altzheimers patients, petty criminals, 'suspicious persons' ... right
|down to every single human being. 

|Masons rule - If it CAN be detected, someone will discover a pressing
|reason TO detect it. 

|Many discount the ability of interested parties to institute anything
|resembling a totalitarian system upon the USA. They point to such
|failed attempts as the 'War on Drugs', the McCarthy ant-pinko purge etc..
|The usual reasoning goes that you would have to have a policeman following
|each and every person 24 hours a day to prevent/ensure an activity. Well,
|thanks to microelectronics - here is such a policeman. Start with the kids
|and the obviously dangerous and then slowly find reasons to expand the
|coverage - 'security' being a great catch-all reason. 

|Wake-up and smell the coffee people ... technology has made the aspiring
|totalitarians job easy ! 

Supporters of the U.S. "Right to Keep and Bear Arms" have been awake
and smelling the coffee for a long, LONG time.

The electronic monitoring chip idea was proposed by the gun controllers-
anti-RKBA community many years ago. Just recently in a Chicago Tribune
column by the fool Clarence Page, an editor(?), it showed up again. 
The anti-RKBA never quits dreaming of new ways to destroy the RKBA 
of the masses.

In terms of kids, the latest New Wave Gun Control strategem is the
"Kids & Guns" conumdrum. A near simultaneous growth of news stories
concerning the 'awful' Kids'n Guns combo has hit the news media, as
well as the editorial and op-ed pages and Eye-Nitwit-News TV. These
are given a so-called "air of credibility" by government financed
"studies" released to show the assertion that the "disease" of
guns has "infected" the non-adult community. Further publicity is
given to reinforce the idea of "firearms-infection" by getting 
some medical groups such as pediatricians to endorse ballistic weapons
bans, up to and including BB guns.

These have the effect of gun control activists masquerating as "concerned
citizens" passing Bill of Right Free Zones i.e. Gun Free School Zones
and "Child-Firearm-Safety" laws i.e. you are defacto negligent if a
child accidentally shoots another, since the child used your gun and
"Make-Your-Weapon-Useless-Trigger-Lock" laws. Of course, the ultimate
version of this is the Washington, D.C. law which states that having
an assembled firearm in your home is illegal.

And, of course, the whole point of all this is to restrict a person's
right to weapons and usage as much as possible for the moment, for
tommorrow is another day to foist ever-MORE gun controls on the hapless
American citizen.


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