Is the United States a free nation? Most would agree that yes indeed, America is Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.
I myself am not confident this is really true anymore and I know many of you reading this would agree.
We have a Federal bureaucracy that has become so large and so powerful that it is literally running amok, trampling people’s rights each and every day in our communities and folks just go about their business like this is normal and ok.
In many states, people can’t even choose to drink milk straight from the cow and yet they can ride motorcycles without a helmet (yes, there is actually a law protecting this “right” in my home state of Florida) or go down to the corner liquor store and buy a case of cigarettes or a bottle of whiskey and drink themselves into oblivion possibly even killing someone with their vehicle on the way home.
Parents are increasingly losing control of healthcare decisions for their children with bureaucrats and social workers deciding what is best instead of the caregivers. Just a few weeks ago I was told by a so called “holistic dentist” in my area that he required x-rays for every single dental cleaning visit for the children in his practice because if he didn’t, the state would consider it “supervised neglect”.
Does this make sense to you?
It is becoming increasingly apparent that a key skill for folks who wish to remain healthy in today’s environment is knowing how to use the word NO effectively.
NO is truly a beautiful word. It is many times one of the very first words a baby learns to say much to the chagrin of the parents.
Despite its negative connotations, the NO word can be very positive. It sets a boundary. It enforces limits.
NO draws a line in the sand.
If you’ve had trouble with the word NO in the past, you’d better start learning to get good with it.
Here are situations where using the word NO is necessary to health:
1) A school official or pediatrician erroneously tells you that vaccines are required for your child to enter school.
Answer: NO, in fact, there is an exemption which is law in this state and I intend to exercise it.
2) A state official comes to a privately owned residence or place of business without a warrant and tells you that the people are not allowed to take home the locally produced raw dairy which they have paid for and is rightfully theirs.
Answer: NO, as it appears that you do not have a warrant, please go away and let us go about our business. If and when you come back with a warrant, we would be happy to talk with you.
3) A TSA agent at the airport says you are required to go through the airport scanners which douse your body in health robbing radiation.
Answer: NO, I am innocent until proven guilty in America. I do not have to subject myself to radiation to prove it to you or anyone else. I opt out.
4) A doctor tells you after a routine blood test that your cholesterol which is 220 is too high and that you need to take cholesterol lowering meds to bring it down.
Answer: NO, my research tells me that women with the highest cholesterol live the longest. My Grandfather ate 2 eggs fried in butter every morning for breakfast and never had a heart attack and lived to be 97. I am going that route thank you.
5) The pediatrician tells you your baby has jaundice and that he needs to be blindfolded and put under lights for several hours a day even though he is only 2 days old and his liver hasn’t even started working yet to break down the bilirubin.
Answer: NO, I have confidence that this healthy baby will be able to handle the bilirubin on his own when his liver starts to actually work in a couple of days. I will take him outside in his diaper for brief jaunts in the sun which is what my mother did when I was jaundiced. I will skip the baby torture treatment thank you.
Have you gotten really good with the NO word? If not, you’d better start practicing. Your health may one day depend on it.
Below is one of the best demonstrations I have ever seen on how to effectively say NO to an overzealous bureaucrat intent on trampling your rights in violation of the Constitution of the United States.
You will not believe this video when you watch it. Welcome to America, Police State. My jaw was on the ground. The guy in the video is absolutely brilliant handling immigration officials that have no jurisdiction whatsoever over American citizens when they are not crossing the border and are freely traveling within the United States. He expertly demonstrates how to handle these people and get positive results with no physical confrontation.
Watch and learn my friends. What other situations have you experienced that require proficient use of the NO word?
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
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Great article!
Can you really bypass airport scanners? How?
Yes you can. My husband and I always opt out when we are in the States. Of course, we are subject to a pat-down. Just wondering right now, do we have to do the pat-down?
Sure! At one point I lean over to a TSA agent in the area and I ask, “when do I ask the opt out?”…..and he’ll either point to a place in the line or another TSA agent as the person to ask.
Last trip there were three of us waiting: the young man in his late twenties said that he had felt something in his head after the last scan, and the young woman in her twenties was pregnant. She said, “The agent said there was nothing to worry about, but I’ve lost two other babies and I don’t want to take a chance”.
Previously, you would expect to be taken aside and your handluggage rummaged through since you were the odd one opting out of the scan, but this hasn’t happened the last 2 or 3 times…..on my merry way.
Just say you opt out. That’s it. I do it all the time.
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Only in America, sadly. In the UK and elsewhere you have no such rights.
Yep, I don’t think you have any such rights in Australia. I will definitely look into it though…
Great article!
When the TSA agents tell you to go through the scanner, it is not an order. It is a request just like the guy in the video is told to “go secondary”. This is also not an order but only a request although the officials make you THINK it is an order and most sheeple obediently comply. Notice what happens when the guy in the video says no to going secondary.
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Also, there are some line(s) where they are pulling everyone or every third person into the scanner, because it’s rare that an airport has enough scanners to process everyone taking flights. So I look for the lines where nobody is being sent to the scanner and hopefully I can get to that one.
I have a metal card in my wallet that sets off metal detectors with the 5th ammendment on it. “Ma’am, you have something in your wallet that we need to look at…..” Oh, look at that, it’s the good ‘ol 5th ammendment, no unlawful search and seziure. Now look accusingly at the TSA agent and get on your plane. Bahahaha!
awesome, where can i get one?
Do you know what state this happened in or why they were setting up the checkpoints to begin with?
I know who he is. It is either in Arizona where he lives with his wife and 7 kids or it is in California where he works at times. His wife posted it on her blog…. I will check for you.
Her blog says that he was working in southern California and had gone through 3 check points that morning. These were internal checkpoints along I-8, which is an East-West highway that NEVER intersects the international border.
California makes you stop at a check point entering the state and asks if you have any fruits and vegetables or plants. I didn’t believe it until I experienced it. Once they asked me to look in the trunk and I let them. Is this something I can opt out of without getting arrested and my kids in the car taken away or something horrible?
Great post and great video! As a homeschooler, I am dreading the day when someone knocks on my door and tells me I don’t have the “right” to educate my children at home. I guess I need to start practicing my “NO” now.
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While I agree with the importance of knowing how and when to say NO, I don’t really like this video. Obviously the officers weren’t setting up these checkpoints for their health or for personal amusement. They were there to do a job. This guy unnecessarily makes himself into a martyr! While it’s unhealthy for us to walk through the TSA scanners, they do serve a purpose (ask for a personal inspection if you don’t want to walk through it). People do bring weapons onto planes and hijack them!! Hello!
Nikki,
Nobody is questioning whether there should be airport security. The debate centers around whether or not the full-body scanners are a) more effective at identifying concealed weapons than other, less invasive measures and b) worth their potential risks.
Evidence points to “no” for both. Here is a good overview of their questionable efficacy: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/body-scanner-vulnerabilities/
Furthermore, airport officials and politicians push very hard to implement the scanners DESPITE mounting evidence that they’re useless because they save a significant amount of money replacing paid employees with the machines.
The risk of being part of a terrorist plot on an airplane is so monumentally small as to be virtually insignificant. Saying that unethical, ineffective, invasive measures are necessary because “weapons!” and “hijaking!” is just fear pandering.
ARE YOU NUTS?? It’s sheeple like you who are a huge part of the problems we have with lost freedoms in this country. Just doing their job? And what would that be? Immigration checkpoints on a highway that isn’t at a border and doesn’t intersect with one? And when someone “goes to secondary,” they can tear your car apart, and when they don’t find anything, you’re left with a broken-down car and no apology! Baaaa! Baaaa!
to prevent terrorism on planes, I think law abiding citizens should be allowed to exercise their second amendment rights and bring their firearms. what terrorist would attempt something when all the passengers are armed?
These weren’t police officers hunting for a criminal on the loose, they were INS agents asking people about their citizenship which is ILLEGAL. They have no authority to do this unless you are at the border. Reminiscent of Nazi Germany and the SS randomly stopping people in the street to ask for their “papers”. You can’t submit to this type of harrassment … if you allow people to trample your rights, it will only get worse. They will be hauling us off in the middle of the night if we let them. Sound far fetched? It’s not. That’s what always happens when gov’t gets too much power.
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I know who he is. His wife’s blog says that he was working in southern California and had gone through 3 check points that morning. These were internal checkpoints along I-8, which is an East-West highway that NEVER intersects the international border.
amen! learn from history. don’t be naive and think these things can never happen again, when they have been repeating over and over again throughout the planet’s existence!
Great article and great video……too bad that some sheeple just don’t get it. We have our inherent rights and these INS agents are way within our borders with their Gestapo stops. They belong AT the damned borders but they aren’t there. Why not? That’s where you stop illegals from crossing over. It’s all a scam designed to further erode our inalienable rights to travel–unmolested, as the gentleman stated.
The TSA morons are in place to cow the sheeple and keep them in fear and submission. The naked body scanners deliver radiation to unprotected bodies; the TSA morons are not health care experts trained in the use of x-ray machines. They are irradiating millions of people unlawfully and it’s immoral and unethical. Those who go along with this deserve the DNA damage that they receive. The TSA gropings are entirely unlawful and unconstitutional. No crimes have been committed by those wishing to board the planes; they have NO warrants to search or fondle anyone. If you or I groped ANYONE as these goons do we would be arrested and charged with sexual abuse among many other things–and rightly so.
Let’s wake the hell up, shall we people?
I know who this is in the video. His wife posted it on her blog rescently which is where I viewed it. I guess it is making its way around, good! It takes place either in Arizona where they live or in California where he works at times. Him and his wife are great examples of saying ‘no’ to a lot of the things you bring up in this post and then some. The also drink raw milk too!
This is in southern California. He had gone through 3 check points that morning. These were internal checkpoints along I-8, which is an East-West highway that NEVER intersects the international border.
isn’t this the pastor who a few years back was beaten up by border patrol thugs, charged with obstruction/resistance . . . and found not guilty? yeah, i’d be videotaping and generally peevish too.
America is no longer a ‘free’ country. people who try to declare it still is are unfortunately in denial.
Everyone should watch this video.
Love the guy in the video. What a true patriot!
We are free to travel unmolested in the United States of America. No official has the right to detain us for no reason to ascertain our citizenship or who we are without cause.
oh no it’s not
Because we have allowed our citizens to become ignorant of history and ignorant of our rights as Americans, we are now being abused by the very government our fathers fought to protect. Wake up, America! Before it’s too late.
So, we can opt out of TSA scanners without subjecting ourselves to heavy pat downs just by saying “No”? I’ve opted out of scanners to be patdown and it is shocking how few people object to the scanners. I didn’t know I could just say “no” to patdowns as well. Do you “contract” with the TSA agents: “I will not go thru scanner, and I will allow patdown as long as you pay me $10,000 for violating my right to travel unmolested. Do you agree to pay me $10,000? Who is your bonding agent and what is your bonding number so I can submit my claim?”. It’s time that government agents PAY $$$ for violating our rights. “Those who do not assert their rights HAVE NO RIGHTS.”
I have to say “no” every time I take my boys in for a dental cleaning and the dentist wants to apply a fluoride treatment. They always ask me if I’m aware that our city’s water is not fluoridated. I say, “Yes.” They ask me if the boys are taking fluoride supplements. I say “no.” Simple as that! They may think I’m a bad parent, but I know I’m protecting my boys.
Our freedoms are being eroded bit by bit. The most outrageous example of late is the HHS mandate which requires all employers to pay for birth control pills (which are horrible medicine in the first place), sterilizations, etc. Catholic institutions, among others, have moral objections to being forced to do this, and could have been given a religious exception had the president seen fit to give it. He refused, and our First Amendment rights to free exercise of religion got trampled. There are many, many lawsuits against this mandate. Wake up, folks! The HHS mandate may not affect you personally if you’re not Catholic…but if they can take away our religious rights, which rights of yours might come next?
I’m just wondering about the free exercise of religion for all the people who are employed by these “Catholic” institutions. Does the Catholic institution have the right to force them to live according to “Catholic” doctrine? This is about access to health care. I know that birth control pills are awful for you, but I take them rather than become so depressed that I take my own life. They are an important part of my depression regimine. My daughter takes them, as well. The other two meds she takes for bipolar syndrome are useless with keeping her hormone level even. Perhaps we will figure out how to do that without these pills, but it isn’t something our doctors know anything about. These institutions are “Catholic” in name only. This mandate doesn’t apply if you are a nun, or a secretary at a rectory or a parish. Not only that, but I grew up Catholic, and I have never met a Catholic that doesn’t use some form of birth control.
Jennifer,
No one is forcing you to live according to Catholic doctrine. It is your choice to be employed there. If you don’t want to play by their rules, work somewhere else or pay for your birth control out of your own pocket.
Sidebar-I am Catholic and have never used birth control in any form outside of NFP. Many who read this blog are not Catholic and still do not use birth control pills.
I hope you take the time to search Sarah’s blog and read about the GAPS diet. There are other, better ways to work to correct hormone imbalances, depression, and even bipolar without birth control pills. You are right though, it isn’t something doctors will know anything about. Good luck and I wish you well.
DItto to everything Lee said.
I would also add that of my dear friends that have dealt with bipolar, the ones who took the chemical route have never improved in the long course.
My one friend who worked hard to correct the root problem did, though.
Good luck to you and your daughter.
Now I wonder how different this video would be if he were Hispanic looking. My husband is a third generation Mexican-American from Michigan with a Spanish name.
Around 3:40 in the video, the guy has just said that “he would like to go free on his way” and the officer responds “uhh, why are you fre….?” Oops! Almost slipped up there! LOL
I have had to readjust my thinking about my beloved country. No I don’t believe we are the land of the free anymore. I agree wholeheartedly with your article. How sad for us if America continues down this road!
The video is great! It makes me realize how important it is to know your rights as a citizen, wherever you live.
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Dunno – I found the guy in the video had a lot of luck with goodnatured agents. I was waiting to re-enter into the US from Vancouver, and the US border patrol agents were coming around the cars ready to board the ferry back to the USA. He leans over to my friend (the driver) and says what he has to say. As he was walking away, I opened my door and asked could he please repeat it. To that, he aggressively replied, “Just WHAT part of what I said didn’t you understand?”
“I DIDN’T HEAR”, I said.
Here’s more about the guy in the video (Steven Anderson): http://www.wnd.com/2009/04/95300/
THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for posting this!!! Just wow! And thanks for the info on cholesterol & jaundice. I’d DEFINITELY like to know more on that. What do you mean, women with the highest cholesterol live longer? I want to know. Because my mom keeps being told she has high cholesterol & worries all the time. All 4 of my kids had jaundice, & my first baby was under the lights with a cover over her face in the hard briefcase for almost a WEEK. It broke my heart, but I didn’t know any different. How do we know what is ok and what is not????? We have babies and don’t even know how to take care of them anymore, because we’ve been trained to just trust what the doctors and authorities tell us without questioning. I’ve spent this past 2 years researching and moving to natural healing, whole foods nutrition, & what my rights really are – yet I still feel like I’m just hitting the tip of the iceberg. Man! I need more references. WHY don’t people know about more of this? Sarah, where do you get all your information, because I need it too. ((sigh))
I was very blessed to be born into a family where my father was a doctor who took me around the hospital with him on his rounds all the time for years so I learned very EARLY how to handle doctors and say NO when necessary. Most of them have egos that won’t quit. They need to get humble as they make mistakes all the time and act like they don’t or they blame the nurses for their screw ups. NEVER go into a doctor’s office unarmed .. know your information and be well researched. If they say something that bowls you over and you don’t know what to do just say no anyway, buy yourself some time, go home and get educated and come back another day to discuss the issue with them toe to toe. Don’t ever make a medical decision without understanding both sides of the issue. Most doctors present only one side … once you find out the other side the correct decision becomes outrageously obvious.
One more thing… Even webmd.com says sunlight will not lower bilirubin levels. So how do we know what is true and what’s not? I think there are many many great doctors out there that really do want to help people & do their best. I don’t believe the majority of them are criminally lying and deceiving. I believe that most of this is caused by the big agencies, corporations, industries, etc… But I’m finding it hard to believe almost anything a doctor says anymore. We have NOT been to a doctor in almost 2 years now. It’s a miracle, considering we were averaging at least once a month prior to my “getting smart”!! I really truly hate the fear factor. I don’t want to discredit doctors completely, because there are some very good ones. But dang, this is frustrating. I don’t ever want to go to one again! And that is just sad. We should be able to trust & have confidence instead of being scared, even in case of trauma & emergency
Well it does. My dad (an MD) even recommended it for me when my babies were jaundiced as opposed to those tortuous lights. WebMD is not a great place for unbiased medical info by the way.
If you’ve taken a basic Physics class you know that sunlight is the complete spectrum of visible light (which is a small portion of the complete electomagnetic spectrum). ANY special bilirubin lights would be a subset of the sunlight spectrum. The bilirubin lights would represent a subset of the spectrum of sunlight, so of course sunlight would work just fine. Simple logic.
Steve Anderson is my hero.
Most say….we the sheeple of the United State of America….
I think you need to speak at a homeschooling conference too. I know you don’t homeschool, but it is amazing how much the school districts try to bully homeschooling parents. Often, these parents are told they are required to do certain things which they aren’t really required to do by law! But the school districts don’t like homeschoolers as they lose out on more money for their schools. But these parents give in since “somebody with a government job” told them they needed to. It’s all OVER the place!
thank u shared!!
D love a link directly to this you tube video so I can spread the word. Couldn’t get a link off the imbed.
Ha – that’s my husband in the YouTube clip! Small world. Great post!
Just FYI: Yes, you can opt out of airport scanners. But: the TSA may decide to do an invasive patdown instead of a “regular” one. This has happened to my husband twice. The agent each time basically told him they would be touching “sensitive areas”, and when my husband told them that was fine so long as they didn’t touch ***that*** part, both times he was put in handcuffs and set on the ground as airport police investigated, and then not allowed on the flight. Because of this, he no longer flies at all, whereas he used to fly for business every week.
Wow! That video was something else! I was nervous watching it, part of me expected the officers to drag the guy out of his car and start the beating or something. The guy did a pretty good job of staying calm yet forceful. I can’t believe the second officer asked someone to run his plates. In my state that is totally illegal unless he has some kind of visible violation already. Now saying this, my husband is a police officer and a really good one, he would never participate in that. Most of the cops he works with are also great people. We don’t live in a huge city, there tends to be more of this type of things in those places I think.
To the above commenter, I want to add that I have worked for an airline and have had the unfortunate experience of speaking with a few TSA agents current and former who are total perverts and talk about the things they do with the images and patting people down. Not to say all agents are like this. But I think perverts would be attracted to this type of work, so maybe there are more of them. Sorry to any good guys out there, but you should find a job where you don’t have to violate constitutional rights of citizens every day.
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