Weekly Update - A publication of the Michigan Militia Corps Volume 3 Issue 18 July 18 - July 25, 1996 LOSS OF MEDICAL PRIVACY A job once depended on your credentials and talents. Getting a mortgage was contingent upon a stable credit and employment history. Investing in insurance was a necessary duty to protect your family. Not any more. You may be denied employment, a mortgage, and insurance based upon your medical records or your genetic profile. These were kept confidential before the advent of managed care. The rules have changed. If left unchecked, health care reform will destroy principles that define America. The latest privacy-destroying instrument of the health-care industry is the computerized Patient Record (CPR). It can include your social habits, concerns, health problems, financial woes, sexual activities and every other practice mentioned in a private doctor's office. Exposure of your private records to strangers infringes upon many fundamental, inalienable rights. Gigantic databases serve as an information gathering / disseminating industry. Both the insurance industry and the federal government have joined forces via managed care to place citizens behind one corporate veil. They are forcing legislation with cooperation of the states for computerization of all medical records; Iowa is the first to force physicians, by laws, to computerize medical claims. The total computerization of your medical records is a goal of the federal government's National Institute of Medicine, which studied and overcame the problems of legalities for more than 20 years. It is made up of many prominent workers in higher education, banks, private foundations, think tanks, and the government. One of the organization's major goals was to fashion means by which the government could control the medical records of every citizen; the effort is ongoing. What are your rights in all of this? You have the right to be let alone and a constitutional right to be "secure in your person papers, and effects," per the Fourth Amendment. On this point, "All laws which are repugnant to the constitution are null and void" (Marbury vs Madison. 5 US 137. 174. 176) You are sovereign, not the corporations, nor the government that creates them. They are private companies with no authority to take away any of your rights, but they are doing just that through Health Date Organizations (HDOs). HDO's are massive warehouses of medical records that broker information to a growing list of those who claim they must know the intimate details of your medical history. They sell information to private investigators, employers, insurance agencies, mortgage companies, and a multitude of other intruders. One may read about the complete plan in a book entitled, "Health Data in the Information Age: Use, Disclosure and Privacy." It was written by the Institute of Medicine and published by the National Academy Press, both creatures of Congress. This invasion is a bipartisan takeover of your sovereignty and a clear abuse of power. Media Bypass Magazine July 1996 CAREERS ACT REMAINS STALLED Federal legislation that proposes "cradle to grave" intervention in every American's education and subsequent employment remains stalled in a House conference committee, but opponents say now is no time to ease the pressure. HR 1617 made a quiet debut on capitol Hill last fall, but thousands of parents and education reformers began protesting after legislative drafts began circulating around the nation. More than 50 groups from all parts of the nation have rallied together under the banner "Grassroots coalition To Stop The CAREERS ACT" to resist the Republican sponsored legislation. The Careers Act and its companion bill in the senate (S. 143) are long- range social engineering plans that propose to link the substance of public education directly to the needs of the marketplace. To accomplish this task, the proposals call for intensive monitoring of every citizen via expanded federal data collection centers: continuous batteries of government assessment tests, a "skills certificate" requirement and the implementation of additional government programs and agencies. The act proposes to create a linked national, state, and local workforce database. This will allow all government agencies to combine their respective records, a monitoring tool that presents ample opportunity for abuse. The act would give the federal government control of job placement for all adults. In part, control would be exercised by issuing "skills certificates" after prospective workers have achieved government-established outcome-based education or training. Businesses who hire workers who don't possess the "skills certificate" (job license) would be subject to a variety of mandated punitive measures. The act seeks to establish national, state, and local "Workforce Development Boards" charged with supervising their local "integrated career center system" described in the original language of the act as "one stop career center systems." The House voted 349 to 79 in support of the CAREERS Act and the companion Senate bill also passed. The legislation is now in conference committee to resolve differences over Senate amendments. The House bill consolidates more than 150 programs from the Departments of Education and Labor that govern job training adult education and literacy. Funding for this proposed mandate to the states would be in the form of a block grant, but would include restrictions that ensure the states would apply funds to each of four required programs: vocational education, at-risk youth, adult education and literacy, and employment and training programs. Ken Harper Media Bypass Magazine July 1996 HABITAT II: UN PLANS FOR YOUR BLOCK Standing at the threshold to the 21st Century, world leaders are charting a new course for humanity. Blind to the lessons of history, they are yielding their nations sovereignty to the United Nations, a body rooted in socialist economics and occult spirituality, trusting that a united world and its collective wisdom will transcend human tendencies toward tyranny, they plan to guide the masses into a new age of peace and oneness. They began finalizing their framework for global governance at the U.N. Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), which opened in Istanbul, Turkey on June 3, Eleven days later they were to have written a "new economic and social agenda geared to the needs of the world community in the new millennium" according to conference director Wally N'Dow. "Building our neighborhood is the starting point." Habitat II leaders don't hide their goals. The Habitat Agenda and other reports suggest that Biblical Christianity and traditional gender roles would be out -- along with capitalism, cars, and our constitution. U.N. leaders know that it is far easier to reprogram people in planned cities than in scattered groups. Berit Kjos author of "Brave New Schools" AIDS TESTING ALLOWED FOR BABIES A five-year extension of the Ryan White Care Act, which provides funds for HIV and AIDS patients was signed by President Clinton. The bill includes a provision for AIDS testing of babies whose mother's HIV status in unknown. Intercessors For America July/August newsletter SOCIAL SECURITY A TAX DEDUCTION? The Working Americans Wage Restoration Act (HR 3427 and S174), introduced by Rep George Nethercut (R-WA) and Sen. John Ashcroft (R-MO), would allow a tax deduction for money paid to Social Security. This could increase the take-home pay of an average two-earner family by nearly $1,800 annually without affecting the receipts of the Social Security "trust fund." Intercessors For America July/August Newsletter *** To subscribe to the Weekly Update, put out weekly by Michigan Militia Corps state command, simply send a message conveying that to xxx.