The Mark of the Beast Is Rapidly Approaching!

A little bit of good news was published on Monday, October 29, 2001 in WorldNetDaily .

"Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., has offered a bill that would repeal the law that now prevents churches from engaging in any political activity without losing their tax-exempt status.

"The 'Houses of Worship Political Speech Protection Act,' HR 2357, would remove from the Internal Revenue Code a 47-year-old law that has prompted some churches to avoid distributing voter guides or even taking positions on moral issues such as abortion that may be debated in political campaigns.

"'This legislation removes the threatening hand of the IRS and extends the freedoms of the First Amendment to all houses of worship in America - as was the case in this country from its founding until 1954 ,' Jones told Human Events.  'All too many churches have been so chilled by the present language of the 501c(3) portion of the IRS code that they refuse to make important moral, ethical or scriptural statements that may touch on current political campaigns, or from permitting others to do so from their premises and their pulpits .

"To remove this fear and anxiety and permit houses of worship to engage in an 'insubstantial' amount of activity that may be regarded as 'political' simply follows the pattern of allowing such organizations to engage in an 'insubstantial' amount of direct lobbying activities.  And it was part of the American tradition until 1954.

 "Jones says that houses of worship engaging in political activity ceased to be 'part of the American tradition' because of Lyndon B. Johnson.  As Senate Democratic leader in 1954, Johnson added an amendment to the IRS code banning 'nonprofit' groups from participating in 'any political campaign on behalf of any candidate.'

"Yet the so-called 'LBJ Law' has been used ever since to bring to heel churches in which pastors speak or act in ways that could be deemed 'political .'

"In 1995, for example, the IRS stripped the tax exemption of the Church at Pierce Creek in Vestal, N.Y., for running full-page ads in USA Today and the Washington Times saying:  'Bill Clinton is promoting policies that are in rebellion of God's law.  ... How then can we vote for Bill Clinton?'

Last September, Americans United for Separation of Church and State sent letters to more than 285,000 churches, telling them not to distribute Christian Coalition voter guides and warning them that such distribution may violate IRS rules.

"So far, 85 congressmen have cosponsored Jones' bill."

Editor's Note: This would be a major victory for the church.  Contact your congressman.

I would love to tell you this next article is just a hoax, but I can't.  There is a company that is paying people $250 to take an I.D. chip in their palm so they can be identified accurately by putting their hand on their mouse for verification to purchase items on the Internet.  

"The website http://www.idchip.com/s1/idchip.html  asks you to apply to become a charter ID chip TM member today.  New members will receive a $250 sign-up bonus!  Plus you will receive all the perks that membership has to offer.

"You will receive the proprietary subdermal electronic implant with all of is  monetary transaction security and convenience features.

"You will be eligible to participate in various health insurance packages which average between 20 and 40% lower premiums than similar plans due to the health monitoring features of the ID system.

You will receive the proprietary ID chip TM software and computer mouse which interfaces directly with the electronic implant in your palm thus establishing a fool proof electronic ID system for e-commerce over the Internet and in stores (the latter feature has yet to be fully implemented).

The subdermal implant embedded in your palm is all you need!  It provides a unique encrypted secure electronic ID that guarantees your accounts will remain safe from fraud and theft."

Editor's Note :  Has the mark arrived?  Another article of the Edmonton Sun entitled "Expanded Satellite Tracking Touted for Criminal," discusses implanting trackable chips in sex offenders, shows how close we're getting.  All these are just a start.  Once the seed is planted it begins to grow to full maturity.  It looks like the seed has been planted.  No matter where you go around the globe, people are discussing the need for positive identification and the eventual tracking of every person.  Some incident that would shock the world and present the need would result in it being implemented faster than you think.  In another article by AP Technology called "Pentagon Unveils 'Smart' ID Cards" tells of our military preparing to issue our soldiers "smart" ID cars in order to get cash and buy food.

Here is another article on this subject reported by Reuters entitled "States Propose National ID System" (January 10, 2002) taken off the website http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ news/0,4586,5101512,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_nbs_hl

WASHINGTON-State and federal authorities are working to develop new identity cards that could be easily checked nationwide and contain digitized fingerprints or other features that would be difficult to forge.

Encoded "biometric" data such as fingerprints, face scans, or retina scans could provide unforgettable proof of identity, supporters say, and linked state databases could prevent individuals from getting multiple IDs.

Skeptics say biometric identifiers and linked databases could easily open the door to privacy abuses by government and commercial interests.

"Once the door opens a little bit it's going to be difficult to prevent others from pushing the door open further," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

On Monday, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators will unveil its standardization proposals and ask for at least $70 million in federal funding to build the system, spokesman Jason King said.

State IDs should also contain a machine-readable bar code containing biometric and other data, he said, and could eventually allow links to the FBI, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or other federal agencies.

On December 17, 2001 ,NewsMax.com reported on their website http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2001/12/17/141109 in an article entitled "French

Debate Killing Disabled People" that pro-abortion forces scoff at pro-life Americans who warn of the devaluation of human life, but what's happening in France is enough to frighten anyone.

France's highest court recently ruled that children with Downs syndrome have a legal "right" never to have been born and may sue doctors who allowed them to be born - i.e., who didn't kill them.

"For parents such as Mrs. Forest, the ruling demonstrates a view-which she says is widespread in French society-that a disabled life is not worth living," says the Monitor.

France and other European countries are anti-choice on U.S. executions of ruthless murderers, but strangely enough they have little problem with executing the innocent.

Editor's Note:   One of the first things Hitler did was to kill the people in the nursing homes and mental institutions, then the hospitals.  It always starts with the unborn, then the physically imperfect, then the newborn, then the elderly, then the Christians!  If you agreed with Hitler and the Nazi party, you will love the police state America will become under the New World Order.

William Carlsen, of the San Francisco Chronicle reported, Saturday, October 6, 2001 at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/10/06/MN183971.DTL that ".unknown to most Americans, a seven-judge court has been busy in a sealed room at the U.S. Justice Department approving 'black bag' searches, wiretaps and the bugging of homes in the interests of national security.

"The court, which has been operating for more than 20 years, has approved more than 10,000 government applications for clandestine searches and surveillance of foreigners, immigrants and U.S. citizens-and only one request has ever been denied.

"In its anti-terrorism proposals, the Bush administration is asking Congress for a broad expansion of the enormous powers ...which would allow it to bring a wider array of cases before the special court.  The proposed change, according to experts, would permit the government to use FISA for criminal investigations as well.

"That request has raised serious privacy and civil liberty concerns.

"For years, the FBI and other U.S. intelligence agencies have used FISA to gather information through phone taps and electronic bugs, all approved by a special panel of federal judges picked by Chief Justice William Rehnquist.  President Bill Clinton expanded the law in 1995 to include what is known as 'black bag' searches of homes, which are executed while residents are away and without their knowledge.

"Because FISA is intended to permit interceptions of foreign or terrorist intelligence and not criminal evidence, the government needs only to show the special court that 'probable cause'

exists that the target of the requested surveillance is a foreign power or agent, a definition that includes being a member of an international terrorist group.

"And unlike regular search warrants in criminal cases, which require a target to be notified at some point and given an inventory of any evidence seized, a target of a FISA 'order' may never find out that eavesdropping or a search has taken place.

"The FISA court is composed of seven federal district judges from different sections of the country selected by the chief justice to serve staggered seven-year terms.  The individual judges rotate to Washington every two weeks to sit in a specially secured, windowless conference room on the sixth floor of the Justice Department headquarters to hear the surveillance applications.

"Opponents say that with only a single denial in more than 10,000 requests, the judges-the only curb on any government excesses-are, in effect, nothing more than a rubber stamp for expanding government power.

"Opponents say that when it does, defendants are not able to challenge the evidence because they are never allowed to see the information relied on by agents making the surveillance requests.

In a brief filed last year with the U.S. Supreme Court, it was revealed that the government conducted 550 consecutive days of surveillance, which included phone taps, an electronic bug in their bedroom , two clandestine searches of their home, downloads from their computer, and listening in on conversations that the woman, Theresa Squillacote, and her husband, Kurt Strand, had with her psychotherapists.