This is an article from Infowars.com. If you own a gun or are thinking about getting a gun you should consider the ramifications this stimulus bill has as it concerns gun ownership/your medical records and your ability to receive mental health services with out the government knowing about it . Very scary. Welcome to 1984. Here is the article at the end there is a rewritten letter to send to your reps. The links are also on this page in the right colum.
Gun Owners of America
February 15, 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.
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the government has access to computerized psychiatric records, the
stage will be set for using that database to take away the gun rights
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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.
ACTION: Write your two senators. Urge them to vote against the
bailout bill (HR 1) until it is stripped of provisions which would turn
your psychiatric records over to a central government-coordinated
database against your will without you getting your day in court.
You can use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center to send your Senators the pre-written e-mail message below.
- Prewritten Letter -
Dear Senator:
I am particularly concerned about sections 13101 through 13434 of
the new bailout bill (HR 1). These sections would set up the
infrastructure to computerize the medical records of ALL AMERICANS in a
government-coordinated database, including psychiatric records.
It is scary enough that a government bureaucrat is directed by
statute to try to influence my doctor’s decisions with respect to my
medical care.
But of even greater concern to gun owners is the fact that a
government-coordinated database will now contain all records of
government-provided and private psychiatric treatment.
Last year’s “NICS Improvement Act” codified ATF’s attempts to make a
person a prohibited person on the basis of a government psychiatrist’s
finding that he is 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.
Now, this new government-coordinated database threatens the gun
rights of people who, as kids, were diagnosed with Attention Deficit
Disorder… seniors with Alzheimer’s… police with Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder… and many other law-abiding Americans.
Please vote against cloture on HR 1 until this provision is removed.
Sincerely,
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