Let's Add A PIN To Our SSN!
By Carl F. Worden

My wife came up with an absolutely brilliant idea the other day, and it deserves sharing.

With all the identity theft taking place nowadays, she said the Social Security Administration, or perhaps the credit bureaus, need to set up a program whereby we can assign a Personal Identification Number to our social security number, and change it anytime we want to.

We all know that if somebody knows your social security number, they can own you. They can apply for a credit card in your name without you knowing about it, pay the bills as they come in like the good credit risk you are, and eventually get the credit card company to increase “your” credit line higher and higher until they finally max it out and disappear, leaving you with a host of problems. (Read the rest here)

Saddam's Capture Violates U.S. Constitution
by Sheldon Richman
The Future of Freedom Foundation

Saddam Hussein went a great distance toward establishing the kind of totalitarianism that emerged in the early 20th century in Russia, then Italy and Germany. It was a regime based on a pervasive party and ideology, self-adulation by the dictator (with concomitant privileges), and rule by terror. The regime combined brutal repression, including unspeakable forms of torture and murder, with succor, such as food rations and medical care. The inclusion of welfare-state features was an admission that brute force and fear are not enough to hold people as political slaves. Unless they are led to believe they need the regime - that its terror is somehow necessary - the people remain capable of rebellion.

Now this man who wanted to be regarded as every Iraqi's father has been brought low, dragged out of a hole in the ground looking like a common bum. (Read the rest here)

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