With the Host of the Spiritual Politician
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Friday, July 20, 2007, 4 pm PST
This Week's Show
Guest: Dr. Katherine Albrecht
Dr. Katherine Albrecht is the director of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), an organization she founded in 1999 to advocate free-market, consumer-based solutions to the problem of retail privacy invasion. Her website is Spy Chips.
Katherine is widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on consumer privacy and will be updating us on the continued campaign to tear down the barriers of privacy that we all assume exist between us and the rest of the world.
The weapon of choice in the campaign against you and your family is the RFID, a tiny device that excites industry and should frighten you into action.
These tiny intelligence devices will make it unnecessary for the police to open your trunk, wallet or purse. They will know what is in there. From our money to all of the items we buy the use of 'spychips' could well end the privacy that Americans have taken for granted as part of their God-given rights.
Government and business are walking into a world of Big Brotherism hand and hand. It furthers the interests of corporations to know what you buy, for now much, when and in conjunction with what other items. This is valuable information that will be made available to their partner corporations, who can then fine tune their profiles on each of us. Government will be able to ascertain when items change hands by location, global positioning is also included in the design potentials. This opens up new governmental income streams for taxing items when they change hands.
This new form of income clear the way for a flat tax, a form of theft far more oppressive than Americans ever imagined even the IRS could be.
Chipping of your person could, conceivably, become a means of enforcing restrictions on every kind of activity. You are, after all government property, only on loan to you. The RFID is the nail in the coffin for the Constitution. You need to know.
Dr. Albrecht, the author of "Spychips: How Major Corporations Plan to Track your Every Move with RFID," presents the stark reality of what the future may hold for all of us.
Bringing government into alignment with the Lessons of Jesus:
The focus of our show is how to bring government into alignment with truth of our spiritual nature. So America started with the idea we are all, inherently free. We are free to choose, free to live, to breath, and to live our lives as we see fit. Government does not own us; government is just a contractor, providing service.
That framework is in alignment with the spiritual truth that each of us connects to God directly, needing no agency as an intermediary. To be free is to be free in the spirit and so in the flesh that temporarily holds the spirit.
When Thomas Jefferson said we were all possessed of inherent rights, existing before government he was extending a spiritual truth into a civic form. It is that Mission Statement from the Declaration of Independence we need to keep in mind.
Because we are free and reject, as did Christ, the use of deceit, manipulation or violence we need to be conscious about our relationships with others and find ways to grow into the sense of connection and community that makes us One in Him.
This is especially true for Christians but it is true for everyone else as well.
Nearly every major spiritual viewpoint enunciates the idea that we are connected to each other and should be good to each other. Christians just have an even more exacting mission. Christians are to love every one, treating them as they would Jesus.
Jesus was very clear about how we were to treat others. He did not say that it was alright to be abusive, deceitful, and violent if we used government as our tool and agent. There was no exception, He wanted all of our hearts, minds and souls. Christ did not lay out any plan of government, but left it to the conscience of the individual, the same way He connects to each of us.
We are Americans but we are also members of a human family that connects us to something truly wonderful and immense.
So our job here at the Spiritual Politician is to look at Government as a human tool we use every day. We need to consider if government is working in a way that speaks that common understanding about our connections to each other and, if it is not, we need to change it.
Americans have had many successes over the last 231 years since our founding and, learning from both mistakes and successes we can consider that question. So here at the Spiritual Politician we look at the truth behind of rhetoric.
Given what is going on today in Government what we may decide to do it reboot the whole system.
To provide the examples of what has gone right and what has gone very wrong we here at the Spiritual Politician have put together several different kinds of segments you will hear on our show from time to time.
Founder and president of the Arthur C. Pillsbury Foundation
Books by Melinda: Links to Melinda's sites:
How the NeoCons Stole Freedom
Shards of Verse Melinda's Poetry
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