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Date Posted: 10:13:58 03/16/02 Sat
Author: MJ
Author Host/IP: wks-166-152-9.kscable.com / 24.166.152.9
Subject: a kid writes

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Kyle Williams is 13 years old, home-schooled and lives in a rural community in America's heartland. His column title, "VERITAS," is Latin for "truth." He particularly enjoys following current news events � and writing about them � and is extremely interested in politics. Kyle believes he may one day have a career in journalism.

Uncle Sam's child abuse
By Kyle Williams

According to a Wall Street Journal report, after Sept. 11, technology companies anticipated a new demand for video-surveillance systems and national identification cards with sophisticated verification capabilities.

Aside from that, U.S. Capitol Police said on Thursday that they planned to create a network of public surveillance cameras to "help fight terrorism." The network would link some 200 cameras around schools, subways, businesses and public places � all in the name of "security," of course.

In addition, the surveillance capabilities have become phenomenal. Scientists have developed high-speed vision-processing chips that would allow real-time, three-dimensional views of an area.

It all sounds too Orwellian to me, like something straight out of 1984, with Big Brother watching over our shoulder.

However, its role is so much more than that. The government has taken the role of Big Daddy, a paternal position in which it is attempting to take care of a population of 250 million and trying to protect you from yourself.

All of this is done in the name of security, children, health care or helping the poor. However, I'm not so sure how good of a parent expanded government is.

One great tool is security. As mentioned above, more security means less privacy. State governments and the feds are pushing more and more security surveillance cameras, as well as making it easier to tap phone lines, hack computers and secretly search houses. Fear is a very powerful tool.

The U.S. education system is, obviously, promoted in the name of children. The legislative bodies of this land expand government every year in the name of children. You are cold-hearted if you don't vote for them. Have a heart, vote for the children, they say. The school lunch program is a great example. The tactic there was if you don't vote for this bill, you want to starve them.

We already have federal insurance � Medicare and Medicaid. Many are pushing federal health care, and it may become a reality sooner than we think. This is creating more and more government, which makes the people more dependent on government.

Another program is federal welfare. Recently, there was a proposal to expand the required hours of work for welfare recipients. However, critics scoffed at the proposal, basically calling it harsh. "How mean can you get, making poor single mothers work more?" they said.

Summarizing these programs, you can see that each one creates more dependence on government � which is the goal. The list of government programs goes on and on, and the goal is to create a nation that depends on daddy. If the government is daddy and we're the children, there is definitely some child abuse going on.

If you have small children, you are going to keep all potentially dangerous or deadly substances or objects out of reach from the children. Additionally, you want to be a shoulder of support for your children and help them with what they need.

What the government is doing is almost the same thing. They are taking our guns away and working hard to outlaw cigarettes. This is all done not out of concern for our well being, but to control and create a submissive nation. At first glance, it may appear to be a tool to help us, but that's definitely not so.

How can I be so sure of this? It's because we have seen many of these programs in other countries � they have not worked and even made matters worse. But government officials continue to push for these programs.

This is the same government that has a $6 trillion debt and a six-month backlog of letters. Do you really want to depend on that? I hope not.

The famous words uttered by President Abraham Lincoln � "[T]hat government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth," � do not seem to be fully true today.

However, what is true is that the government is still of the people. America, wake up! Now that our elected officials have taken it upon themselves to disregard everything the Constitution says, we must recognize what is happening and not stand for it!

Kyle Williams is 13 years old, home-schooled and lives in a rural community in America's heartland. His column title, "VERITAS," is Latin for "truth." He particularly enjoys following current news events � and writing about them � and is extremely interested in politics. Kyle believes he may one day have a career in journalism. For now, he offers his unique perspective to the readers of WorldNetDaily.

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Uncle Sam's child abuse
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Hmmmmm.... -- Donk, 13:51:05 03/16/02 Sat
Re: a kid writes? -- Grumpy�, 10:42:48 03/17/02 Sun