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“Pork” Bailout Bill Could Ban Guns for Millions of Americans

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

The Obama administration is putting a lot of pressure on Congress to slam through the most recent $800+ billion bailout package before anyone has an opportunity to read it.

The Obama administration intones that the details are unimportant. The only thing that matters is the “bigness.” And, by shipping a bill of nearly $900 billion (plus interest) to our children and grandchildren, the package is really, really big –- bigger, in fact, than the budget of our entire government for the first 170 years of our country’s existence.

But now that some of the details are finally starting to leak out of Washington, Gun Owners -– and a lot of other analysts -– are beginning to look at the fine print. And some of it is particularly scary.

Of particular concern to gun owners are sections 13101 through 13434 of HR 1, which would set up the infrastructure to computerize the medical records of ALL AMERICANS in a government-coordinated database.

True, the bill doesn’t mandate that the data will be in a giant computer under the Oval Office. But it does mandate that your medical records be reduced to a computerized form which is available to it in a second.

This it would do by establishing a National Coordinator for Health Information Technology –- tasked with, among other things, “providing information to help guide medical decisions at the time and place of care.”

It should be scary enough that a government bureaucrat is directed by statute to try to influence your doctor’s decisions with respect to your medical care.

But of even greater concern to gun owners is the fact that a government-coordinated database (which government can freely access) will now contain all records of government-provided and private psychiatric treatment -– including, in particular, the drugs which were prescribed.

Remember last year’s “NICS Improvement Act” otherwise known as the Veterans Disarmament Act? This law codified ATF’s attempts to make you a prohibited person on the basis of a government psychiatrist’s finding that you are a “danger” –- without a finding by any court. Well, roughly 150,000 battle-scarred veterans have already been unfairly stripped of their gun rights by the government.

But people who, as kids, were diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder... or seniors with Alzheimer’s... or police with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder... or people who are now theoretically covered by the new law... these people have, generally, not suffered the consequences of its sanctions YET. And the chief reason is that their records are not easily available to the government in a central, easily retrievable, computerized form.

The bailout bill would change all of that. It would push increasingly hard to force your private psychiatrist or government-sanctioned psychiatrist to turn over your psychiatric records to a massive database. This would be mandated immediately if your doctor does business with the government.

This would supposedly save Medicare money in connection with medical treatment. And, the sponsors insist, they would work very hard to protect your privacy.

But this turns the concept of “privacy” on its head. The privacy which is MOST important is privacy from the prying eyes of government –- not privacy of government data against the prying eyes of others. After all, many government data bases have been hacked in recent years, with mountains of information stolen.

So, once the government has access to these computerized psychiatric records, the stage will be set for using that database to take away the gun rights of those with Alzheimer’s, those with ADD, and those with PTSD.
Post Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:53 pm 
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But wait I thought it was Bush who was snooping around in our lives and all the Obama nuts on this forum said the Messiah would put an end to that. Laughing Laughing Laughing

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Post Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:12 pm 
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Well I guess if you're Bush you'd go after books, Obama, bullets.

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Post Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:30 pm 
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messiah?????? i thought that was charlton heston Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing
Post Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:38 pm 
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Well I guess if your Obama you go after Rush. silence them silence them all so sayth the messiah lord Baracko.

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Eh, excuse me, that is to say I lost my piece somewhere in Sonora east of Hermosillo. Guess I have none to control now! Very Happy

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Post Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:51 am 
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rush burpbaugh....what a joke:lol: Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing
Post Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:30 am 
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$600,000,000 radio contract thats some joke alrighty their aint a lib radio whiner out their that would give up his left nut (if he has any) to be as succesful as Rushbo. Laughing

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