Vera Verba

Remember this story, it could be crucial in a few years.

First, let me give you the facts:

Just a few days ago, Internet law expert Larry Lessig revealed the details of a conversation he had with Richard A. Clarke, a long-time (and very high-level) counter terrorism official.

Lessig relates that the conversation began with some background about the Patriot Act; in specific, that it had been sitting in a drawer at the US Justice Department for twenty years before an event came along that allowed them to get it into law. It was pulled-out after 911, and signed into law a mere twenty days later. (None of the legislators actually read it, of course.)

Then Lessig asked Clarke if there was such a plan ready to be implemented upon the Internet, following some sort of cyber-attack. “Of course there is,” said Clarke.

So, there you have it, folks. The gang in Washington (and their friends elsewhere) have a plan to take full control of the Internet.

By the way, you can read the story here, and watch Lessig talk about the conversation here.

The next question is this: CAN these control freaks really take over the Internet? Well, maybe not completely, but in the Internet’s current form, they could probably do a fairly good job of it. Take a look at this map:

Can you see how powerful a position the US holds? And not only that, but the Patriot Act gives US enforcers power to grab the citizens of other countries (and certainly their own) all over the world.

New Internet links are desperately needed. Some are being built (ironically, a major one is being built by two of the worlds greatest evil thugs: Hugo Chavez and Castro, Jr.) but many more are necessary. If I-911 happens before then, we have a problem on our hands.

Sure, excellent privacy technologies exist, but the only permanent fix is millions of human beings deciding not to take it. And, following a disaster, they are likely to be just as cowardly as they were in 2001. Courage is more essential than fiber, and it is just as lacking.

This a serious threat, folks. The Internet is hyper-important, and for a lot more than chatting and email.

I am not trying to be dramatic or to scare people. I am simply stating a significant fact. States all around the world are claiming ownership of children - all children within their power.

No, the governments are not rounding-up bus-loads of children to be taken to a special facility, but they are stating, boldly, that they have the right to take your children if they don’t like the way you are raising them - or even if they just don’t like you.

If this troubles you, good - it should! But that leaves you with a choice: To face the facts, or to turn away because it’s not convenient. Friedrich Schiller said that mankind was “made great or little by its own will.” Pick your category.

THREE CASES

#1: Not long ago I posted that Germany equated homeschooling with mental illness, with the result being that they would steal whichever children they wished to steal, because they had a right to see that they were educated the right way. I went on to say that “Germans do not own themselves. The collective owns them, and will enforce their claim with violence.” And, if you read the story, you will find that this is exactly what the German government did.

#2: The government of England (UK) is pursuing a policy of Forced Adoption. In fact, they have quotas and rewards! You may not be aware of the fact, but civil liberties have been trashed horribly since Blair took office. It has been a shocking period, especially since Englishmen were once the tough guys who forced civil rights into existence. There is a Forced Adoption web site (operated from outside of England, I will add) that covers this issue passionately. The UK government will take children from parents they dislike, and they will reward the bureaucrats that do it!

#3: The State of Wisconsin (US) has forcibly removed (stolen, in normal English) three children from their parents, even though they admitted that there were no signs of abuse whatsoever. The reason? Because the parents turned to prayer for healing rather than to doctors. (Sean covered that aspect of this case in his Help Yourself post.)

Yes, this one does get close to the edge, since another sibling died just prior, but ask yourself: Are we the property of the state? And isn’t that the same thing as slavery? In this case, the police and “experts” decided that since the parents didn’t use medicine, they would be charged with a crime, and their children would be stolen from them - and that means big men with guns, carrying them off by force!

You and I may think that rejecting medicine was a bad thing to do, but do we have the right to force our neighbors to submit to the medical treatment we prefer? Would you give your neighbor that right over you? (We’re not talking about convincing people to do something, we’re talking about holding them down and shoving syringes into their veins.) If you allow that, then you are allowing people to be locked in cages because others don’t like their choice of therapies. Bear in mind that the parents never harmed this child and pursued the therapy of their choice diligently. They wanted their child to be healthy and live.

DO YOU OWN YOURSELF?

My friend Butler Shaffer (a law professor) used to begin each of his property classes with this question, and you might want to read his thoughts on the subject. The truth is that you don’t own yourself - or at least the State doesn’t think so. In fact, Germany, the UK and the US - self-proclaimed champions of human rights - are openly acting in defiance of self-ownership. They own your children, and they own you. And, they will use fists and bullets if you don’t like it.

DOES ANYONE ACTUALLY CARE?

Well, some people do - not everyone is a sleeping sheep. And, of course, even sleeping sheep care after it has happened to them. But, times have been good, and no one wanted to rock the boat - so they slept on and let the state do whatever it wanted.

What do you think should be done?

There are problems in Germany.

As Sean and I went to great lengths explaining in God Wants You Dead (which, I’ll remind my believer friends, is NOT anti-Creator, regardless of the title), collectives pursue their own ends and see humans as herds of things to be managed. We have now been given a overt example of this in Germany.

Let me state this in clear terms, then leave you, dear reader, to examine the situation as you see fit:

The collective governance of Germany says it has a right and obligation to see that all of their citizens are educated in the same way. Variation will not be tolerated. If parents choose to educate their children differently, it is considered a crime against the child, and the collective will seize that child, to protect it from the parents.

There are many things to say about this, but I’ll pass over most of them. Those who want to know how and why this works can read the book. But this must be said plainly: The collective is claiming ownership of the children of Germany - an ownership they will enforce with violence.

If fact, they have done just this very recently. And, I add, with no remorse, no apology, and no sign of moderation. Germans do not own themselves - the collective owns them, and will enforce their claim with violence.

Here are two links to the particulars of this case, and I especially want to express my thanks to WorldNetDaily for their continuing coverage.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55343

http://www.freemelissab.com/

I’d also like to append an excellent letter by a friend of a friend to the appropriate government officials in Germany. A letter that was never answered. (Which is no surprise - the agents of oppression always seek shelter in the collective structure: “I’m just following the law.”)

I have no particular action that I want you to take after reading this. But I do want you to be aware of what is happening, and I’d like you to understand it as well. You are big boys and girls; you can make up your own minds regarding what (if anything) to do about it next.

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Madam Chancellor; Mr. President; Ladies and Gentlemen:

I hope that I may be permitted a brief self-introduction before coming to the substance
of this correspondence. I am an American by birth and a Frenchman by derivation. I have worked, attended school, and done military service in Europe, including two years in central Germany. I have studied the German language while in school in Switzerland, improved my knowledge at the US Defense Language Institute and used it while assigned to Frankfurt/Main.

For as long as I have had opinions on this subject, I have considered myself a friend of Germany and the Germans. All this by way of asserting that I am not the kind of foreigner who ignorantly considers all Germans to be brutal goose-stepping “krauts” or “Boches.” I mention that sad stereotype because it is receiving a good deal of support lately, and unfortunately that support comes from the recent actions of the Federal and Bavarian governments in the case of home-schooled children in general, and the much-persecuted Melissa Busekros and her family in particular.

By now every home-schooling family in the world with an Internet connection
is aware of this sinister affair, and the news is beginning to reach other concerned groups - fundamentalist Christians in particular - and to filter into the mainstream media. In short, there is a very narrow interval of time in which the German government can, if it acts quickly and decisively, prevent a catastrophe in its relations with the rest of the world, and with its own people as well.

The authorities mentioned earlier, acting under the power of a statute promulgated under National Socialism, have taken a girl away from her family to punish them for the sole “crime” of schooling her at home. In other words, the exercise of a fundamental human right has been treated as an offense. Worse, the responsible parties, far from recognizing and rectifying their error, have resorted to pseudoscience (again, reminiscent of Nazi-era doctrine) to justify their acts - diagnosing Miss Busekros as suffering from the hitherto-unknown syndrome of “school phobia” and forcing her to undergo psychiatric treatment.”

Further compounding their offense, they have resorted to arguments justifying their acts that tie them even more closely to the logic of tyranny: society, it seems, has an interest in the uniformity and conformity of education that overrides any right to choice held by the individual family. This argument is transparently specious - I refute it here only because responsible persons in positions of authority have asserted it, apparently in all seriousness.

Society is after all a collection of individuals; if those persons, individually, have no right to choose the medium and content of their children’s education, then it is clear that the State’s education apparatus cannot reflect any collective input from those powerless parents. Instead, it is transparently and obviously the State’s interests that are embodied and asserted over all others by its education system, which is thus better termed an indoctrination system.

Education is the single greatest force in the formation of a person. Indeed, it is unpleasant to imagine what the modern German nation would be like if National Socialism had survived long enough for all those educated under the old systems to die off. To place schooling under the absolute control of the State, allowing no alternative, is therefore the complete nullification of liberty. If we are not free to choose what we shall be, if we cannot inculcate our own values in our children, then all statutory and constitutional freedoms are of no value or effect. Any State that can control what we ARE has no trouble deciding what we DO.

Over the years from 1945 until the fall of the USSR and the reunification of Germany, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers, myself included, stood guard side-by-side with Germans in central Europe, believing that we were defending a free republic against the threatened onslaught of a militant Socialist power. Words fail me in expressing my disappointment upon discovering that the régimes on either side of that border - superficially so different - neverless preserve the same false philosophical underpinnings. My disgust is shared by every American and European with whom I have discussed this matter. Please permit me to remind you that many of the young soldiers who patrolled the border in decades past are now men and women of stature and influence; they can be counted on to give voice and substance to their anger, and in a way that will harm - perhaps for a very long time - Germany’s standing in the civilized world and her relations with her allies.

I urge you to consign this Nazi relic to the trash heap, and to cease your persecution of
homeschooling parents and their children. It is not yet too late… but it soon will be.

Sincerely,

F. Marc de Piolenc
Master Sergeant, United States Army (Retired)