Billy wrote:
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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:

"Nad R" wrote in message

During 911 every grocery
store had to give the names of everyone that purchased humus, an arabic
food, the grocery stores complied.

Excuse my scepticism, but are you pulling our collective legs? I know the
US does some unbelievable daft things in the name of security, but having to
give one's name in order to buy humus is just so incedibly silly, that I
find it hard to believe.

Can you provide a cite for that?

The large stores here will give you a small discount on your grocery
purchases, if you have a card from their store. The card is bar coded
and directs the purchases of your sale to your own personal database.
The database is of course for sale, so that when someone decides to sell
widgets, there is a data base of previous widget buyers, and advertiser
can aim their advertising at you. I don't use them, Admiral Poindexter
can find out about me the hard way.

I have a dozen or more of the cards, the cards do not have my real name or
address and I still get the discounts. The stores want your money and never
check ID. The stores that do not use the cards hands out deals just as good
as those that do. However, the same information is now on any credit card
used. So those discount cards today are not really needed. Also your
picture is taken with every purchase. Cash is still king, but for how long?

I also do my taxes by hand. I think by law, the government cannot sell your
personal information but corporations can. Tax agencies that perform taxes
online and those computer programs also sells your tax information to the
advertisers. Read the fine print on those tax software programs. Years ago
those money management software programs could also send your personal
financial information over the Internet without your knowledge, if you did
not have a good firewall. They embedded the tracking software in the
security tracks of ones hard drive that could not be erased even by
reformatting the drive.

Go back and look at the links I provided. A least seven hundred people was
detained from data mining after 9/11, no jury, no judge and no trial for a
month or two. Do you want the links reposted about this?

Even during World War II, the U.S. Detained Japanese for many months
without a judge, jury or trail. Like I said in previous post, the US
constitution states " For the Corporation by the Corporation". President
Bush shredded that older document years ago. Privacy is history get use to
it.

As an atheist, can't wait for the mark of the beast 666 to be imbedded into
my soul.
Also for the squeamish, the mark of the beast is already on everything you
buy. It is part of the UPC code. Two thin bars on each end and a two thin
bar in the center. The thin bars represent 666.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)