Time to start preparing

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The Homeland Security Act is the scariest thing to come down the pike in the United States in a very, very long time. You can read about it here.

What can we do? Write your Congress-critters. Do not email them. Email gets ignored. Whip out the word processors and put your words on paper. Calling them also gets registered.

If it does pass, use cash whenever possible. Especially when you buy ammo for the weapons we should all own before the 2004 election season. The Second Amendment is the reset switch on the U.S. Constitution.

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My freedom of speech. Reset.

The current Attorney General has stated, on record, that criticizing the President should be a punishable offense.

My freedom from religion. Reset.

Read up on Tom DeLay, now the number 2 man in the House of Representatives. Not only does he not want you to be free from religion, he wants to choose your faith for you if he doesn't like your choice.

My right to vote. Reset.

If you live in Broward County, Fla, it appears to be happening already. Hundreds of thousands of ballots vanished on election night. All from heavily Democratic districts.

The rights of my friends not to be slaves. Reset.

Under the emergency legislation passed by Congress after 9/11, you can be arrested as a terrorist suspect, and held without charges, the right to an attorney, any visitors.. anything, for as long as the government feels like holding you. This is already happening.

The only reset button the Constitution requires is already contained within itself.

And when the Government ignores that Constitution? What then?

Have you read the Declaration of Independence? I mean really read it? We didn't break away from the mother country on a whim. We had a specific list of abuses that were enumerated clearly. If the colonists hadn't been armed, nothing would have happened.

Remember, this is the same Bush administration that came up with the great idea of having your postal worker reporting on you.