From:  Clint Pruett
To:       heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
Subject: Congress's Secret Plans to Get Our  Medical Records

This affects everyone!  "Evil men rule when good men do nothing."  I'm
contacting my senators; I hope you will also.

In Him,

Clint


Congress's Secret Plans to Get Our Medical Records

August 19, 1998                    by:   Phyllis Schlafly

Americans were outraged to learn about the Federal Government's plans to
assign a personal identification number to every medical patient. But
Congress nevertheless passed H.R. 4250, the so-called Patient Protection
Act, which allows anyone who maintains your personal medical records to
gather, exchange and distribute them.

The only condition on distribution is that the information be used for
"health care operations," which is a vague and meaningless limitation
that does not even exclude marketing. Even worse, H.R. 4250 preempts
state laws that currently protect patients from unauthorized
distribution of their medical records.

While the sponsors of H.R. 4250 claim that they did not intend for the
information to be circulated for "just anything," their spokesman
confirmed that personal medical records would be used for future
programs concerning health quality and disease management.

When the Kennedy-Kassebaum law was passed in 1996, we were told it was
to improve access to health insurance. The law became explosively
controversial last month when the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) began to implement the Kennedy-Kassebaum "unique health
care identifiers" so that government can electronically tag, track and
monitor every citizen's personal medical records.

After this news broke on July 18, embarrassed Congressmen inserted a
line in H.R. 4250, which passed July 24, ordering HHS not to promulgate
"a final standard" without Congressional authorization. That language is
a total phony; it doesn't prevent HHS from issuing proposed or interim
standards (which will become de facto standards) or from collecting
medical data.

So much money is involved in accessing and controlling personal
information that the Washington lobbyists are moving rapidly to lock in
the extraordinary powers conferred by the Kennedy-Kassebaum law. That
explains these sneaky eleventh-hour inserts in pending legislation.

On August 4, the House passed yet another bill to protect the gathering
of personal information on private citizens. To paraphrase Ronald
Reagan, there they go again.

Just before passing H.R. 2281, a bill about copyrights on the Internet,
the House quietly attached a separate and dangerous bill deceptively
entitled the "Collections of Information Antipiracy Act."

No one, of course, is in favor of "piracy," but the impact of this bill
goes far beyond any reasonable definition of piracy. By the legerdemain
of inserting it in another bill, it will go straight to a House-Senate
conference committee under a procedure designed to avoid debate or
amendments in the Senate.

This Collections of Information bill (now part of H.R. 2281), in effect,
creates a new federal property right to own, manage and control personal
information about you, including your name, address, telephone number,
medical records, and "any other intangible material capable of being
collected and organized in a systematic way." This new property right
provides a powerful incentive for corporations to build nationwide
databases of the personal medical information envisioned by the
Kennedy-Kassebaum law and the Patient Protection bill.

Under the Collections of Information bill, any information about you can
be owned and controlled by others under protection of Federal law. Your
medical chart detailing your visits to your doctor, for example, would
suddenly become the federally protected property of other persons or
corporations, and their rights (not your rights) would be protected by
Federal police power.

This bill will encourage health care corporations to assign a unique
national health identifier to each patient. The government can then
simply agree to use a privately-assigned national identifier, and
Clinton's longtime goal of government control of health care will be
achieved.

This bill creates a new federal crime that penalizes a first offense by
a fine of up to $250,000 or imprisonment for up to 5 years, or both, for
interfering with this new property right. It even authorizes Federal
judges to order seizure of property before a finding of wrongdoing.

H.R. 2281 grants these new Federal rights only to private databases, and
pretends to exclude the government's own efforts to collect information
about citizens. But a loophole in the bill permits private firms to
share their Federally protected data with the government so long as the
information is not collected under a specific government agency or
license agreement.

This loophole will encourage corporations, foundations, Washington
insiders and political donors, to build massive databases of citizens'
medical and other personal records, and then share that data with the
government. And, under the House-passed bill cynically called the
Patient Protection Act, patients would be unable to invoke state privacy
laws to protect their personal records.

Meanwhile, in another aspect of the Federal takeover of all Americans'
health care, the Centers for Disease Control is aggressively building a
national database of all children's medical records through the ruse of
tracking immunizations.

Tell your Congressman and Senators you won't vote for them in the
upcoming elections unless they immediately stop all Federal plans to
track and monitor our health or immunization records.

Phyllis Schlafly column 8-19-98
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From:          Johan Van Rooyen
Subject:       HELP!!  PRAYER PLEASE!!  A cry from South Africa!
To:            heb_roots_chr@geocities.com

Dear Eddie & Hebrew Roots Newsgroup Members

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST FROM SOUTH AFRICA

The South African Parliament is controlled by secular humanists,
interfaith liberals and by people who loathe YHWH and His Messiah.
They want to pass a new law that will ban all broadcasts of groups
that state that one religion alone is true.

The implication of this is that all Christian radio and TV stations
will be closed down, unless they broadcast poisonous interfaith fruit
salad.

I enclose more details below.

Please pray to our Father in Heaven that He will make a way for His
Word to be spread about in South Africa as never before.  Pray that if
the legislation be passed, that the Good Message will be preached on
every train, in every bus, on every street corner, in every school.

The same secular humanists and interfaith liberals that control the
South African parliament have also given South Africa an evil school
curriculum.  Small children are introduced to Isis, Horus, Osiris,
Shamanism and similar junk.  Most believers are taking their kids out
of public schools and put them in Christian schools or homeschooling.

Please pray that the powers in Parliament do not force their poison
onto these schools, that they do not pressurise all kids to be sent to
public schools.

Shalom & thank you.  Please pray!

Johann van Rooyen

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Copy of message received:

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST: ALL CHRISTIAN RADIO STATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA
COULD BE CLOSED DOWN

Christians across the world are hereby urged to stand with believers
here in South Africa. Legislation has been tabled in parliament which
scraps "community of interest" radio stations. This means all
Christian/religious stations will be closed down.

Please join us in this call to object the eradication of "community of
interest" stations. We are calling on all our friends and family to
voice their opinion. If you are a citizen of another country - USA,
Europe...wherever you are. Please pass this on to others on your
mailing list. Stand with us as we stand for our constitutional rights
to freedom of speech and religion. 

The bill will be tabled in Parliament on ~ 1 September 1998.  Almost
no advance warning and time for response was given.

Paragraph 4.2 of the bill states:

"Community broadcasting must be inclusive. Whatever common interest
need is, therefore, expressed by a potential licensee must be catered
for in the framework of a geographically founded community. Interests
identified within the community must be catered for in one licence for
a given geographic area of local concentration. The recognition and
protection of these interests must be monitored. "The structure and
mandate of the religious services will be re-defined to operate within
the terms and conditions of the geographically founded community
category."

Paragraph 4.3: "Community broadcasting must be for the community by
the community, through the community. It must truly represent all of
the people in the community in ownership and control and decision
making."  "The prime objective and vision of community broadcasting
and its related activities is to promote development of a sense of
community whilst addressing the particular needs of communities."

What does this boil down to?  Say the people living in an area
covered by a radio or TV station are 70% Christians, 20% Muslims and
10% Hindus.  Then the radio or TV station may NEVER say that YHWH is
the only true Creator-Elohim, and that the Scriptures (Genesis to
Revelation) is the only truth.  The Radio or TV station will also be
forced to broadcast 70% Christian programs, 20% Islam/Muslim programs
and 10% Hindu programs.  No true believer may and will make such
compromises, so that Christian broadcasting will come to a halt.

IF YOU WANT TO OBJECT TO THE PASSING OF THIS BILL, THEN FAX OR
E-MAIL THE LETTER BELOW TO:

FAX: +27 21 403 2072 (FAX)

E-MAIL: parlcomm@iafrica.com

You would have to sign the letter, of course!

Address the letter to the Chairperson Portfolio Committee on
Broadcasting:

Mr S.E. Moeti
P.O. Box 15
Cape Town
8000
South Africa

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Draft letter that can serve as the basis for your own letter or
E-mail message:

I want to state my strongest possible objection to the proposed new
"Broadcast Bill" currently being considered in Parliament.

The new legislation which only allows for geographically based
Community Radio Stations will result in the closure of Christian /
Religious stations. This is an infringement of the constitutional
rights of South African Citizens.

The following constitutional rights are infringed by this
unconstitutional, wicked new bill:

1.  Section 15 states everyone has the right to freedom of
conscience, religion, thoughts, belief and opinion.

2. Section 18 states "Everyone has the right to freedom of
association."

These constitutional rights are strongly infringed by the
scrapping of the "community of interest" Radio Stations as I will not
be able to associate with my interest group via the airwaves.

3.  Section 31 states "Persons belonging to a cultural, religious or
linguistic community may not be denied the right, with other members
of that community, a) to enjoy their culture, practice their
associations and other organs of civil society."

This right undeniably gives me the right to have a 24 hour a day
Christian Radio Station to listen to. The draft legislation in my
opinion is unconstitutional and, should this legislation be passed,
the South African government will be infringing its own Constitution.

Please record my objection.

Yours sincerely

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Please forward this message to as many believing friends you can.

May Almighty YHWH bless you!

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From:          Ann Bishop
To:            <heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>
Subject:       URGENT PRAYER NEEDED


Dear family of Believers.

Please pray urgently and fervently for South Africa.

Last week Arafat visited our land,  our President bowed low before
him, and then proceeded to bestow on him our land's highest honour.  A
medal of valour !!!!!

We Messianic Believers truly believe that he scorned the core of G-d's
heart, and are in fear and trepidation for the judgement.

This country already supplies arms and ammunition to Syria and Iraq,
and has publicly sided with Gaddafi and Hussein.  

Yesterday the government announced that in 10 days it would close ALL
Christian radio stations.  This with no warning.   Bearing in mind
that 90% of the land voted against the abortion laws,  and Mandela
stated that even if 99% voted against it,  he would still pass it,  we
are very very anxious.

Please rally up every prayer warrior you know to support us. Please
pray also that the Christians of this land will wake up before it is
too late. 

  The Muslims have vowed publicly for a long time to make South Africa
a Muslim state before the year 2000.   They say that the Muslim
countries are all pouring in money to make it happen,  whilst the
so-called Christian countries could not be bothered!

It is not by might,  nor by power but by my spirit says The Lord.

G-d bless you,  and keep you while you battle with us for this dear
land.

Ann Bishop

Beit Jezreel Fish Hoek
South Africa.

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