Shadow Government Page #6

Synopsis: John Wilson wakes up, gets ready for his day and heads to work. He has no idea that he's being watched, tracked and studied. Is he a threat to national security? Is he a terrorist or a ...
 
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2009
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If you live in a free and democratic nation

you may rest easier

knowing that a totalitarian regime won't come

knocking on your door.

But journalists Christians, aid workers and

many others around the

world in places like China, North Korea and

the Sudan are not

as fortunate they are routinely abused arrested,

tortured and

even killed for their seemingly innocent and

innocuous actions.

The people in Hitler's Germany and in Ceauescu's

Romania never thought their

freedoms could be squashed or that they themselves

could be seen as a threat.

Could such a thing happen in other nations

or here in America surely our information

is safe with our elected officials and were

protected by our constitutional rights.

If everyday citizens don't stand up for their

rights then a big

government will take more and more of their

rights away from them.

Everyone should be concerned about this because

this affects them, it affects

us, none of us is exempted from what's happening

in the world today.

This affects our lives, our children and our

grandchildren's lives and

if we really care about anything anybody outside

of our own skin,

if we really care about other people, about

society, about our nation,

about the world we'd better take an interest

in what's going on.

So if your phone calls, your letters, the

contents of your home's, the contents of your

automobiles, the contents of your computer's

are open to surveillance by the government

or by private entities who share that information

with the government then I think it's

going to be very hard for most people to be

free in the way they live their lives.

If we get to the point where the government

is watching everything we do then we're going

to see some serious erosion of our civil liberties

our right to assemble peaceably,

our right to free speech, our right to free

religion, free practice of the religion

of our choice, all of these rights are going

to be eroded through these technologies.

The saying is if you put a frog in cold water

and

then you put the heat on the frog he will

gradually

warm up so he won't know to jump out so he

will be

boiled to death because it's such a gradual

thing.

Now I don't know if it's true with the frog

but I can pretty much

tell you it's true with the population and

I'm watching it happen.

We're in a situation now where technology

keeps

clashing with privacy and society keeps ending

up in

this take it or leave it situation and what

we really

want is for society's to enjoy the benefit

of the

technology as well as have privacy the ability

for

Google to be able to tell everything about

you and the

house you live 202 00:41:38,998 --> 00:41:42,198

the ability to watch you on the street, to

monitor

you I can understand the reasons for Great

Britain

setting up the camera spy systems that they've

set up

but if used incorrectly it can destroy you

and of

course computers are another thing that government's

want to control and they have the ability

to do

that in communist China you cannot use a computer

without the government knowing what you're

saying

and who you're saying it too and what you're

up to.

The founders of this country understood that

sure there were bad guys but

they also understood that if you give the

executive branch, if you give the

government this sort of arbitrary unbridled,

unchecked power to search and

to cease than you are really inviting tyranny

and the abuse of power.

The America that stood for liberty and personal

freedom that

peaked probably in the fifties and sixties,

no longer exists.

Most of us have taken comfort in the law,

constitutional

protection and that's out the window we are

no longer

governed by the Constitution as much as the

people think

they are but that's been shredded and no longer

operative.

There is a faction within the country that

believes

the constitution's a living document and because

it's a living document presumably you can

torture

it until it says whatever you want it to.

The truth and that's leading to a socialist

environment

and will ultimately lead to tyranny and so

to those

that love freedom it's an end of an era the

great

experiment that was once America has been

prostituted

by special interests the environment is the

cover for

the real objective of sustainable development

which

is to change our system of justice and change

our

system of economics to a system of social

justice.

You can talk to most judges in America today

and they will proclaim themselves to be agents

of social justice well there's no concept

of

private property in a system of social justice.

So what is being done is our whole foundation

for the American

experiment is being undermined with this environmental

move.

We all want to promote those good causes but

the real

question is how much bare are you really getting

for the buck are we really making a difference

or are

they just trying to get more surveillance

power.

You're going to see increasing encroachments

on freedom

of speech and it takes some interesting colouration's.

In the press you can say what you like against

Christianity no

problem but you say a peep against Islam and

you get clobbered.

In our schools they'll teach Islam but you're

not allowed to teach the Bible.

This is a unique political experience in all

of human

history and in the future of humanity really

depends

upon the political recognition of every individual's

unalienable rights and that's what's wasting

away.

Increasingly in the name of fighting illegal

immigration there are arguments that daily

activities basic activities that are required

for just living should require an ID card.

Whether it's getting a job whether it's renting

an apartment,

whether it's visiting a doctor and ultimately

I think

it's whether it's going to a store and actually

buying

food and so you see this kind of writing on

the wall.

Right now there's an employment database held

by the federal

government that they want all employers to

run every

single person applying for a job pass this

database to

make sure that they have legal status in the

country.

For many years I've been concerned about the

long-term

likelihood of a free world for my grandchildren

and my children and now I'm very worried about

it

for myself because things are accelerating

so fast.

One of the big concerns that I have is that

if

you get to the point where everybody's carrying

RFID tagged items whether it's a driver's

license

whether it's a tagged jacket whatever it might

be then that all it would take for the government

in order to round people up or put people

on a

watch list they could just put an RFID reader

in a backpack, they can blend in with the

crowd

mill back and forth walk among the the protesters

or the gathers or the people in the Church

or the

Mosque or whatever it might be and automatically

download and capture all of there information

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Grant Jeffrey

Grant Reid Jeffrey (October 5, 1948 – May 11, 2012) was a Canadian Bible teacher of Bible prophecy/eschatology and biblical archaeology and a proponent of dispensational evangelical Christianity. Jeffrey served as the chairman of Frontier Research Publications for more than 20 years. His books (variously published by WaterBrook Press, Bantam Books, HarperCollins, Zondervan, Word and Tyndale House) have sold more than 7 million copies and have been printed in 24 languages. Jeffrey was working on a new book called One Nation Under Attack (WaterBrook Press, January 2013), at the time of his death. He also appeared on television and radio shows, particularly on Christian programs and also had been invited to speak to groups around the globe.In 1982, Jeffrey earned a Chartered Life Underwriter Certification from the University of Toronto's Extension Program. He later received his Master's Degree and Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Louisiana Baptist University.In 1999, Jeffrey's book, The Millennium Meltdown, reached #2 on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list for religious paperbacks. In 2000, his novel By Dawn's Early Light, which he co-wrote with Angela Hunt, won the Christy Award for futuristic Christian fiction.In 2007, Trinity Broadcasting Network began broadcasting, Bible Prophecy Revealed, a 30-minute weekly program hosted by Jeffrey.Grant Jeffrey died suddenly of a cardiac arrest on May 11, 2012, in Toronto, Canada. He is survived by his wife, Kathleen Grant Jeffrey. more…

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