Schumer has a bill to create a national data base of mentally defectives for reference in gun background checks. How long before it is abused the way credit reports are? Obviously, that will disincent people from seeking psychiatric care, which is hardly an exact science, anyhow.
Never mind that!
What's he gonna do when most members of Congress pop up on the list?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm??
However, the government owns nothing! It controls by force that which the people allow it to control. As we allow the government to assume more and more power to do what we ourselves should be doing, we will soon find it controlling everything.
What we are discussing are the various ways they seduce us into ceding power to them until they will finally have enough to not have to ask our permission.
I recently read that it is being suggested that the internet be completely re-engineered, that its original architecture did not anticipate the rapid advances in technology and popularity we now see. That may be true but this could also be an opportunity for the power grabbers to control this medium which they find so threatening. The Fairness Doctrine is their attempt to control information over radio and TV. If they can control the internet and the airwaves then they have effective control of all information available to the general public. Knowledge is power, so they say, and the free flow of information is necessary for the people to maintain power.