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Date : Wed May 08, 19:12                                                       
From : Blue Resonant Human                                   1:330/201.1
To   : All                                 
Subj : "Mark of the Beast?" (1/3)                                            
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From: "Blue Resonant Human" 
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 19:15:37 GMT

The "Mark of the Beast?"
========================

In regards to conceivable future human bio-electrical implants, 
you may wish to research the claims of a Mr. Dannion Brinkley, 
a man who was struck by lightning in 1975 and described a 
portion of his subsequent OBE/NDE experience as follows: 

- - - - -

"...The beings of light came at me one at a time.  As each one 
 approached, a box the size of a videotape came from it's chest 
 and zoomed right at my face.  The first time this happened I 
 flinched, thinking I was going to be hit.  But a moment before 
 the impact, the box opened to reveal what appeared to be a tiny 
 television picture of a world event that was yet to happen.  As 
 I watched, I felt myself drawn into the picture, where I was 
 able to live the event.  This happened twelve times, and twelve 
 times I stood in the midst of many events that would shake the 
 world in the future...Much later, when I returned to life, I 
 wrote down 117 events that I witnessed in the boxes.  For three 
 years nothing happened.  Then in 1978, events that I had seen in 
 the boxes began to come true.  In the eighteen years since I 
 died and went to this place, ninety-five of these events have 
 taken place" 
 
His description of "Box 12" follows: 

"Box Twelve: Technology and Virus.  The eleventh box was gone 
 and I was into the twelfth box.  It's visions addressed an 
 important event in the distant future, the decade of the 
 nineties (remember, this was 1975), when many of the great 
 changes would take place.  

"In this box I watched as a biological engineer from the Middle 
 East found a way to alter DNA and create a biological virus  
 that would be used in the manufacture of computer chips.  This 
 discovery allowed for huge strides in science and technology.  
 Japan, China and other countries of the Pacific Rim experienced 
 boom times as a result of this discovery and became powers of 
 incredible magnitude.  Computer chips produced from this process 
 found their way into virtually every form of technology, from 
 cars and airplanes to vacuum cleaners and blenders.  

"Before the turn of the century, this man was among the richest 
 in the world, so rich that he had a stranglehold on the world 
 economy.  Still, the world welcomed him, since the computer 
 chips he had designed somehow put the world on an even keel.  

"Gradually he succumbed to his own power.  He began to think of 
 himself as a deity and insisted on greater control of the world. 
 With that extra control, he began to rule the world.  

"His method of rule was unique.  Everyone in the world was 
 mandated by law to have one of his computer chips inserted 
 underneath his or her skin.  The chip contained all of an 
 individual's personal information.  If a government agency 
 wanted to know something, all it had to do was scan your chip 
 with a special device.  By doing so it could discover everything 
 about you, from where you worked and lived to your medical 
 records and even what kind of illnesses you might get in the 
 future.  

"There was an even more sinister side to this chip.  A person's 
 lifetime could be limited by programming this chip to dissolve 
 and kill him with the viral substance it was made from.  
 Lifetimes were controlled like this to avoid the cost that 
 growing old places on the government.  It was also used as a 
 means of eliminating people with cronic illnesses that put a 
 drain on the medical system.  

"People who refused to have chips implanted in their bodies 
 roamed as outcasts.  They could not be employed and were denied 
 government services.  

- - - - -

I suppose, like all these sorts of predictions, that time will 
tell.  It does remind me, however, of a very similar, albeit far 
less technical account of a disturbingly identical scenario 
recorded by an elderly gentleman imprisoned on the isle of Patmos
some couple millenia ago.  

For further analysis, please consult the following book: 

Saved by the Light
1994 by Dannion Brinkley 
Villard Books, Random House Inc.  
New York ISBN 0-679-43176-4 





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Date : Wed May 08, 19:12                                                       
From : Blue Resonant Human                                   1:330/201.1
To   : All                                 
Subj : "Mark of the Beast?" (2/3)                                            
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From: "Blue Resonant Human" 
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 19:18:47 GMT

February 1996 -- Congress Poised To Mandate Government 
Registration and Tracking of All Americans 


Imagine an America in which every citizen is required to carry a 
biometrically-encoded identification card as a precondition for 
conducting business.  Imagine having your retina scanned every 
time you need to prove your identification.  Imagine carrying a 
card containing your entire medical, academic, social, and 
financial history.  Now, imagine that bureaucrats, police 
officers, and social workers have access under certain 
circumstances to the information on your card.  Finally, imagine 
an America in which it is illegal to seek any employment without 
approval from the United States government.  

This future may be more real than many Americans would like to 
think if Congressional lawmakers are allowed to proceed with 
their most recent attempt at monitoring the private lives of 
American citizens.  

Enter S. 269, the latest attempt by Congress to mandate a 
computer-driven, biometrically-verifiable national 
identification system.  If enacted into law, S. 269 would 
require the most comprehensive registration and tracking of 
American citizens by the federal government in history.  Some 
experts have speculated that once the system envisioned by S.269 
is in place, the scope of the identity card could be expanded 
to include information of a highly personal nature, such as 
credit and spending history and medical, educational, and social 
records.  

On February 29, 1996, the Senate Judiciary Committee is 
scheduled to begin deliberation on S. 269, The Immigration 
Reform Act of 1996.  The bill has already passed the Immigration 
Subcommittee and is being promoted by Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY)
and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).  In the House, Republican 
Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas is the key sponsor of a similar 
bill, H.R.2202, The Immigration in the National Interest Act.
Although the House bill is not as extreme in its proposals as 
the Senate version, it still contains provisions which should be 
viewed as objectionable by family privacy advocates.  H.R.2202 
is scheduled for a final floor vote on March 18.  The Clinton 
Administration is a strong proponent of both bills.  


Why would Congress and the Clinton Administration consider such 
a plan?  

Some Americans believe that America is in the midst of an 
illegal immigration crisis.  Politicians want to show their 
constituents that they are taking strong action against illegal 
immigration.  These politicians argue that the best way to 
control illegal immigration is to give the government the right 
to approve all employee hiring in America.  By using advanced 
technology to register, track and store information on every 
citizen, they argue, it will be easy to spot illegal immigrants. 


If At First You Don't Succeed...  

Similar (but unsuccessful) proposals to create a national 
registry and tracking system were advanced in the early 1980's 
by a powerful array of government agencies who brushed aside any 
concerns about personal privacy.  Agencies like the Internal 
Revenue Service, the State Department, and the Central 
Intelligence Agency, each for their own unique reasons, craved 
a law which would require every American to carry a national 
identity card.  One attempt to register and track Americans came 
close to being endorsed by the Reagan cabinet in July 1981, but 
it was stopped when President Reagan personally vetoed the idea 
on the grounds that it was a massive invasion of privacy.  

In 1993, under the guise of an immunization bill, Congress 
attempted to register and track every American from birth, but 
the measure was defanged of its dangerous provisions after tens 
of thousands of calls and letters poured into Washington D.C. 
from parents around the country asking Congress to respect their 
family privacy and individual liberties.  Perhaps the most 
famous attempt to create a national registry came in 1994 as 
part of the Clinton Administration's ill-fated Health Security 
Act.  

Each time these proposals have been mounted, pro-family forces 
have rallied to defeat them.  


Smart Cards, Retina Scans, Voice Patterns and the Coming 
Biometric Privacy Invasion 

Biometrics is the science of measuring unique physiological or 
behavioral characteristics.  In recent years, the technology 
which drives this science has evolved well beyond fingerprinting 
and dental records.  In fact, the technology is available to 
identify people by the length of their fingers, the pattern of 
their retinas, the sound of their voices, and the smell of their 
skin.  Senate lawmakers intend to incorporate advanced forms of 
this technology as part of the most comprehensive identification 
and information gathering program in history.  

On May 10, 1995, the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration met for 
a hearing entitled, "Verification of Applicant Identity for the 
Purposes of Employment and Public Assistance."  The hearing was 
chaired by Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) and was attended by 
Senators Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Jon 
Kyl (R-AZ).  Robert Rasor, from the Financial Crimes Division of 
the Secret Service, provided an explanation to the Subcommittee 
of the emerging "biometric" technologies' role in personal 
identification: "The use of biometrics is the means by which an 
individual may be conclusively identified.  There are two types of 
biometric identifiers: physical and behavioral characteristics.  

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Date : Wed May 08, 19:12                                                       
From : Blue Resonant Human                                   1:330/201.1
To   : All                                 
Subj : "Mark of the Beast?" (2/3)                                            
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From: "Blue Resonant Human" 
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 19:18:47 GMT

* Continuation from previous message....

Physiological biometrics include facial features, hand geometry, 
retinal and iris patterns, DNA, and fingerprints.  Behavioral 
characteristics include voice characteristics and signature 
analysis."  

Although the language of S. 269 does not mandate which specific 
biometric technique will be used to register, track and identify 
every American, it clearly calls for the use of biometrics 
(Section 115(7)).  Senator Dianne Feinstein, an original drafter 
of the proposal, recently explained in a Capitol Hill magazine 
that it is her intention to see Congress immediately implement 
a national identity system where every American is required to 
carry a card with a "magnetic strip on which the bearer's unique 
voice, retina pattern, or fingerprint is digitally encoded."  


"Fifteen years ago, they would have torn the building down."  

Despite the fact that this bill could dramatically increase the 
role of the federal government in the private lives of Americans,
the proposal has received relatively little media attention.  
Senate sponsors seem to be pleased by the opportunity to act 
covertly.  During his closing remarks following the last panel 
of the May 10 subcommittee meeting, Senator Simpson mused on the 
relative lack of media attention given the hearings and the 
overlap between a national ID card and President Clinton's 
proposal for a "Health Security Card" two years ago: "There is 
much to do here, but I was just saying to Ted [Kennedy] before 
he left, a hearing like this fifteen years ago, they would have 
torn the building down.  And here we are today just a bunch of 
us, kind of sitting around and no media, no nothing.  This is 
fine with me.  I get tired of them on this issue."  


Key Problems With The Bill 

Congressional attempts to include privacy safeguards in the 
language offer little hope or consolation.  Agencies like the 
IRS and the Social Security Administration (SSA) have recently 
been subject to criticism for their lack of control over 
employees who, in violation of the privacy safeguards, were 
opening confidential files and making the information available 
to outsiders.  Among other things, the bill establishes: 

* That the federal government create a national database 
  containing information on all Americans and immigrants eligible 
  to work in this country (S. 269, Sec. 111).  

* That all Americans may be required to obtain a national 
  identification device, like an ID card (S. 269, Sec. 111(b)).  

* Beginning in 1999, all employers must receive authorization 
  from the national computer database before hiring any new 
  employee this does not just apply to immigrants.  For each new 
  employee, the company would be required to transmit his name and 
  identification number via modem and then wait for the national 
  database to respond with an authorization code.  If the person's 
  name is not in the database, he can not work (S. 269, Sec. 111).  

* All American children must register with the SSA by age sixteen.  
  When they register, they must provide the agency with a "finger-
  print or other biometric data."  The agency would place the 
  fingerprint "or other biometric data" on the child's birth 
  certificate, hoping to make the birth certificate more fraud-
  resistant (S. 269, Sec. 116(7)).  

* In violation of the Tenth Amendment, the Senate bill would 
  create federalized rules pertaining to the creation of driver's 
  licenses, and would unconstitutionally mandate that 1) social 
  security numbers be attached to the license; and that 2) all 
  drivers licenses "shall contain a fingerprint or other biometric 
  data."  (S. 269, Sec. 116(b)).  


A National Database Would Be a Nightmare! 

Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) called the national computer 
registry and move toward a national identity card, "an 
abomination and wholly at odds with the American tradition of 
individual freedom."  Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) recently 
joined Armey in signing a letter denouncing the tracking system. 
Jack Kemp wrote in the New York Times, "An anti-privacy, anti-
business and anti-American approach is no way to run immigration 
policy."  

These bills would create an unprecedented increase in the 
government's ability to collect information.  For the first time:

* The government would have a comprehensive registry of every 
  American name, date of birth, place of birth, mother's maiden 
  name, Social Security number, gender, race, and other 
  information.  Personal information that is now scattered in 
  many different places would be consolidated in one database, 
  controlled by a single federal agency.  

* Personal information would be accessible to local agencies 
  and anyone who claims to be an employer.  

* The government would have to grant approval before a company 
  enters into private employment contract with a private citizen.  


The Legislation Is Likely To Pass Unless Significant Opposition 
Develops Soon 

Under the current political climate, the bill is likely to be 
enacted into law.  Most Senators do not even realize that the 
bill would create a national, computer-linked registry and 
tracking system driven by biometric technology.  Those who do 
understand have not properly evaluated the tremendous threat to 
individual liberties and family privacy posed by the measure.  


The House Version 

In its current form, H.R.2202 calls for pilot programs to 
test the idea of an computer-linked verification system.  It 

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From : Blue Resonant Human                                   1:330/201.1
To   : All                                 
Subj : "Mark of the Beast?" (2/3)                                            
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From: "Blue Resonant Human" 
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 19:18:47 GMT

* Continuation from previous message....

calls for new and unprecedented databases and data sharing and 
computer link-ups between state and federal agencies, thus 
expanding the government's ability to monitor private citizens.  
Like S. 269, it would, for the first time, require private 
employers to receive approval from a federal computer database 
before entering into private employment contracts with 
individuals.  


Opposition To The Bills 

More than fifty influential organizations representing groups on 
both the right and left of the political spectrum have joined 
together in an effort to defeat these bills.  A number of 
Representatives and Senators have responded favorably to their 
concerns.  Two of them, Senators Spence Abraham (R-MI) and Rus 
Feingold (D-WI) have joined together to offer amendments to 
delete all references to registries, ID cards, or employment 
verification programs from the Senate bill.  


Action Is Urgently Needed 

The registry and tracking system currently before Congress must 
be defeated.  Now is the time to write and call urging your 
lawmakers on Capitol Hill to oppose any national registry, 
tracking and identification system.  Tell them that the threat 
to individual liberty and family privacy far outweigh any 
potential benefits that such a system might provide in curbing 
illegal immigration.  If your senator is a member of the 
Judiciary Committee urge him to support the Abraham/Feingold 
Amendment.  Tell them that there are acceptable solutions to 
America's illegal immigration problem but giving the government 
the power to register and track its citizens is not one of them. 
[Note: S. 269 may be officially redubbed S. 1394.] 

   Call your Senator at       (202) 225-3121 
   and your Representative at (202) 224-3121.  

This special report was prepared by the legal staff of the 
National Center for Home Education, P.O. Box 125, Paeonian 
Springs, VA 22129.  Permission is granted to reprint this 
report in its entirety.  




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From : Blue Resonant Human                                   1:330/201.1
To   : All                                 
Subj : "Mark of the Beast?" (3/3)                                            
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From: "Blue Resonant Human" 
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 19:21:39 GMT

- - - - -

Maimi, 5/7/96 --  Police hand out 5000 DNA ID kits to kids so if 
their bodies are recovered they can be identified, with the 
option of registering their DNA in a central database 

- - - - -

Chicago Trib, 5/7/96: 

IN FUTURE, TINY CHIP MAY GET UNDER SKIN 
CRITICS ARGUE DEVICE INVITES BIG BROTHER 

A tiny chip implanted inside the human body to send and receive 
radio messages, long a popular delusion among paranoids, is 
likely to be marketed as a consumer item early in the next 
century.  

Several technologies already available or under development will 
enable electronics firms to make implantable ID locators, say 
futurists, and our yearning for convenience and security makes 
them almost irresistible to marketers.  

"This is currently very hot," said Edward Cornish, president of 
the World Future Society, based in Bethesda, Md.  "The field is 
developing because the technology is becoming available to do it."

He added: "Its appeal will depend on what features are offered 
and the price.  I'm sure a large number of people would want 
such products."  

Inevitably, implantable radio locators conjure up visions of Big 
Brother and unscrupulous scientists abusing such technology to 
control the masses.  But the researchers laying the foundations 
for this technology see their work as helping humankind, not 
subverting privacy.  

They seek to aid people using wireless phones to summon 
emergency help, to track soldiers who become lost on maneuvers 
and to enable people to get along without carrying cash by 
automatically crediting an account.  

Animal advocates already urge pet owners to have tiny 
identification chips implanted in their dogs and cats so if they 
are lost, shelters can identify them through a national 
computerized database.  

The notion of using implantable chips to control humans isn't 
entirely absent, even in these early stages of the technology's 
development.  

Cornish noted that authorities have experimented for years with 
fitting convicts with electronic monitors to allow them to leave 
jails for limited reasons, such as work release.  

"The problem is that monitors worn outside the body can be 
tampered with," Cornish said.  "Implanted locators would be more 
difficult to get at.  You might see this used as a condition for 
parole."  

Several systems already are in place with the potential to 
locate people using radio signals.  The most obvious, called GPS,
for global positioning satellites, was launched by the military 
years ago and has become available for civilian applications.  
It uses satellites to map a person's position with great 
precision.  

Some automobiles come equipped with GPS gadgets that can give 
drivers their location, and boaters use similar technology.  

Researchers want to combine such locators with equipment that 
monitors a person's health.  

Engineers in Salt Lake City have designed a device intended to 
determine whether someone wearing it is becoming too cold or too 
hot, a sign of exposure.  

"We want to highlight people who need attention early, when 
there is still time to get to them with help," said Peter Kind, 
a senior vice president at Sarcos Research Corp., which has 
developed a prototype GPS-based device that will be ready for 
field tests this year.  

Sarcos' initial target is the military.  The body monitors and 
locators could transmit information about soldiers to a central 
location to reduce the risks while troops are on maneuvers.  

Civilian markets might include ill people who usually would be 
restricted to nursing environments, Kind said.  

"This could help save costs, letting people who only need 
observation be released earlier from the hospital without 
risking their health," he said.  

Right now, the prototype equipment is worn on a belt, but the 
goal is to miniaturize it into a chip.  The monitors could be 
worn in the area of the ear canal or elsewhere in or on the body.

Another means to track people relies upon the existing network 
of cellular-phone transmitters.  

The cellular industry and emergency-response officials have 
proposed standards to the Federal Communications Commission that 
would enable police, fire and ambulance dispatchers to find 
people who dial 911 from wireless phones.  

At present, nearly one-quarter of the 911 emergency calls made 
in the U.S. come from wireless phones, and half the time the 
callers don't know their location, posing a major problem for 
emergency personnel.  

Developing computer systems to track locations of so many calls 
is a daunting task, but it is consistent with the phone industry's 
goal of one day assigning phone numbers to human beings, rather 
than to equipment.  Once the phone network becomes sophisticated 
enough to do this, it will smooth the way for widespread monitoring 
of people's whereabouts.  

Companies already market pagers for children so parents can keep 
in touch when youngsters are away from home.  Adding the ability 
to pinpoint location at any time is a natural extension; keeping 
track of the child through a chip implanted under the skin may 
be another.  

"People accept that increased communications makes life more 
convenient at the same time that it means there's no hiding 
place anymore," said Bernard Beck, a Northwestern University 
sociologist.  "If I have a universal ID implanted, I can cash a 
check anywhere in the world.  There's no worry about credit 
cards being stolen.  These are attractive matters."  

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From : Blue Resonant Human                                   1:330/201.1
To   : All                                 
Subj : "Mark of the Beast?" (3/3)                                            
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From: "Blue Resonant Human" 
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 19:21:39 GMT

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Although older people might recoil at the notion of sticking 
gizmos inside themselves, younger ones tend to like the idea, 
Beck said.  

"In the last generation there's been a radical change about 
surgery and altering your body.  The resistance to having 
tattoos and wearing body rings is dropping.  Altering your 
appearance through surgery is no longer a cause for amazement."  

Problems may arise when some people decide that their implant 
makes them itch or when it malfunctions and doesn't send out a 
strong enough radio signal to be received.  

Beck sees another potential problem: "You'll see people ripping 
off implants, counterfeiting them, subverting the technology 
just as they've done to past technologies."  

The main problem, most scholars agree, will be the tradeoff 
between lost privacy and enhanced convenience.  

"It's common in a certain genre of science fiction for people to 
walk into a place, pick up any item they like and walk out with 
it, not having to pay because their action automatically 
generates a debit to their account," said Dan Polsby, a 
Northwestern University law professor.  

"That would make for a very open society," Polsby said.  
Implanting tracers in criminals could reduce incarceration 
because it would allow them to be tracked at all times.  And, he 
added, people wearing locators would be deterred from committing 
crimes because of the likelihood they would be caught.  

But the potential loss of privacy is a huge issue.  Everyone 
likes to drop off the screen for an hour or so now and then.  

"I don't know that we've wrapped our minds around being 
accountable minute-by-minute.  The legal implications of who 
owns this information are major,"  Polsby said.  "It's one thing 
to have my hospital monitoring my heartbeat for fibrillation, 
but it's an entirely different matter to have the government 
monitoring my whereabouts."  

Although potential problems are huge, locator ID chips may be 
inevitable, said Cornish of the World Future Society.  

Just as many people now allow supermarket chains to keep 
computerized records of their individual purchases in return for 
price discounts, many will embrace the chips for the security 
and convenience they offer, Cornish said.  

"We all want to walk down the street feeling safe," he said.  
"This technology offers that promise along with the dilemma of 
lost privacy."  

Cornish believes, at least initially, that such chips would be 
voluntary.  But he acknowledges that "things that are voluntary 
today have a way of becoming compulsory tomorrow.  

"I was in London recently on a day when everyone on the street 
was wearing a red poppy.  I felt conspicuous without one.  I 
wanted one.  As these chips are introduced, people will begin to 
assume you are locatable.  It will become an issue if you aren't," 
he said.  

Cornish said he sees a similar attitude already regarding e-mail 
addresses and pagers.  "If you tell people you don't have an e-
mail address, they ask, `How can we contact you?'  Some 
employers now require staff to wear pagers, to be locatable.  
Someday, they may require chips."  

- - - - 

> Cpl. John C. Mayfield Ill, 21 and Cpl. Joseph Viacovsky, 25,
> fear the 'genetic dogtags' could be used against them in the 
> futrue, though they haven't said precisely how.

Anne replies;

I have just talked to my son, who is a Marine, and he said he 
has been ordered to give DNA this Monday.  He is having a hard 
time deciding what to do about it.  He has read literature that 
accuses the military of using the DNA for cloning, growing body 
parts on animals.

They suppossedly have grown ears, fingers, etc. and plan to work 
on limbs next, and to try to design the perfect human being-- by
programming the genes.  He said they have also been told they will
also undergo IQ tests as part of this program, but not until later.

The 'genetic dogtags' excuse for setting up and using the DNA pool
to identify body remains is BOGUS.  My son said he HAS ALREADY
BEEN IMPLANTED WITH A BIO/COMPUTER CHIP FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Finally, and here's the clincher, he said that the rumor is that 
they are going to start doing genetic experiments using the Marine
DNA bank and the alien DNA being stored at hanger 51 (or52?)

I was at a loss as to what to tell him, but if they take his DNA 
they are also taking mine!  I read him your article, but he said 
if he is court martialed, he will never have any chance to get 
another job.

Thanks for the story!

Anne [Annems19@aol.com]

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Eschatology -- ya gotta love it! 

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