DECEMBER 2007
doremus observes matters of interest:
Doremus Jessup, editor of the
Fort Beulah The Daily Informer,
in Sinclair Lewis' famous book "It Can't Happen
Here", at its conclusion, "drove out saluted by
the meadow larks, and onward all day, to a hidden cabin
in the Northern Woods where quiet men awaited news of
freedom.....still Doremus goes on, into the sunrise, for
a Doremus Jessup can never die.
BULLETIN...BULLETIN
Hundreds Die at Christmas Sale:
Consumers, shoplifters, sales clerks, children and
pederasts were caught in a swarm of frenzied marketers
rushing to a sale at the Mall in Disneyland. The scene of
trampled bodies, bloody children and wailing parents
brought a very bad day to the bottom line.
The Mall promised a new sale to begin as soon as the
debris was cleaned up. “We’ll have carolers and
clowns and hopefully everyone will forget this tragedy
and just think about spreading joy and buying
stuff”, said a Mall spokesperson wearing a Mickey
Mouse hat.
Homeless Drowning in Bay Area Oil Slick : Thousands Stay
Home Playing with their pets,um,companions.
Bay Area homeless people, seeing the outpouring of help
for drenched birds after a recent oil spill, doused
themselves with raw petroleum and laid down at local
beaches, hoping they would be taken home and cleaned up
by good Samaritans and other less biblically inspired
souls.
After two of them drowned in particularly rough surf and
three days went by without them receiving any help, they
decided to continue loitering in downtown areas where
they harass people and their pets, um, companions, by
flaunting their anti-upscale looks, smells and habits.
Important Debate over Water Boarding Continues: Many
still being tortured while liberals decide if it is
merely a form of extreme surfing Concerned civil
libertarians continued their heated debate over water
boarding, while prisoners and other critical people
screamed “ what about torture itself, you
ninnies” as the discussions went into their third
year.
Coincidentally, the third millennium of debate over how
to properly conduct war continued, while tens of millions
of past war dead called out from the beyond
"schmucks, how about not making war in the first
place”. The ADL charged anti-Semitism was being
practiced by the dead in use of a yiddish term never
meant to be addressed to mixed audiences . Alan
Dershowitz threatened to bring hate crime charges against
the disrespectful dead, and was in turn threatened with a
law suit by fans of the Grateful Dead for possibly
defaming their good name.
Capital Punishment Controversy threatens to continue
until thousands more are capitally punished
Heated discussions over which forms of murder to use in
humanely murdering murderers almost led to violence as
nonviolent supporters of wrist slapping opposed
supporters of electrocution who opposed supporters of the
gas chamber who opposed lethal injection . Quakers and
Liberals argued that having prisoners participate in the
discussions would bore them to death and that would be a
more civil way of killing killers.
Crowds outside the forum meeting at the Center for the
Study of Centers could be heard chanting “ end
capital punishment” and “those without capital
suffer its punishment” and “while you’re
at it, end capitalism” , but the arguments inside
grew so heated and passionate that the outside chanting
could not be heard over the endless filling of water
pitchers and crunching of munchies supplied by the
caterers.
“This is shocking” said executive director
Leopold Loeb,” we’ve never had raised voices
like this. Our discussions have always been mature,
moderate and middling enough to assure that we’d get
continued funding from our benefactors at the
foundation”. A foundation spokeswoman said “
Our desire has always been to keep people talking and not
doing anything that might cause serious change , so that
we might keep sending checks”. The future of the
center is at stake, Loeb remorsefully murmured, in a
subdued and moderate tone.
The ACLU is pondering whether it should represent a rock
show which has been banned for its alleged threat to
civility. The Extreme Alienation Heaviest Metal tour
features bands called “Hate Crimez” ,
“Extermination” and “Genocide”, and
offers to impregnate the first three rows of ticket
buyers with the HIV virus and have band members spit,
vomit and urinate into the mosh pit.
Promoters boast that all lyrics are certified as hate
speech and claim their ability to participate in the free
market economy is being denied by communist terrorists
refusing them a venue for their performances. The show
has successfully played major arenas in Israel and
Germany, but sensitivity to hate crimes, harsh language,
identity groups , family values , law suits and
sanitation issues have led to problems in the USA.
Iran Still Labeled Nuclear Threat Despite Lack Of Any
Evidence
Administration and Democratic opposition both warn:
“They may not have a program to make nuclear
weapons, but they could steal nukes from Israel, and then
where would we be?” Plans continued to start the
genocide in Iran, and stop the genocide in Darfur.
Stay tuned.
Copyright (c) 2007 by Frank Scott. All rights reserved.
'Thought Crimes,' HR 1955 Passed With 404 Votes
Submit, Ye
Citizens, Silently to State Murder**
By Jeff Knaebel*
INTRODUCTION_
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955, titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
<http://WWW.govtrack
* This is a "Thought Crime" bill of the type so often discussed in an Orwellian context.
* It specifically targets the civilian population of the United States.
* It defines "Violent Radicalization" as promoting any belief syste that the government considers to be extremist.
* "Homegrown Terrorism" and "Violent Radicalization" are defined as thought crimes.
* Since the bill does not provide a specific definition of extremist belief system, it will be whatever the government at any given time deems it to be.
A few extracts of the Bill are presented below to show you its tone or "flavor."
"(2) VIOLENT RADICALIZATION- The term `violent radicalization' means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system... To advance political, religious, or social change."
SECTION 899B. FINDINGS.
"(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens."
"(6) The potential rise of self radicalized, unaffiliated terrorists domestically cannot be easily prevented through traditional Federal intelligence or law enforcement efforts, and requires the incorporation of State and local solutions."
_Section 899D_ of the bill establishes a Center for the Study of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism in the United States. This will be an institution affiliated with the Department of Homeland Security. It will study and determine how to detain thought criminals.
_THIS LEGISLATION ENDS THE POSSIBILITY OF A CULTURE OF REASON._
It is an attempt at legislative lobotomy of conscience. It aims to eviscerate ethical sensibilities of an entire culture.
Having usurped the power of war and peace, life and death, the Corporatocracy now bludgeons even the thought of speaking for conscience. This is State murder of the mind.
It is just too awesomely obscene for words. It exceeds not only the scope of my vocabulary, but my imagination as well.
The minions and hired agents of politicians are free to murder, rape and pillage on government hire using our money, but to imagine alternatives to them and the degraded, psychopathic political "leaders" who design and perpetrate these atrocities is legislated as a thought crime!
This is the legislated, politically promulgated end of man as a thinking, self-directed being. Surely this must be the outer limit of "positive law," that is, statutory laws passed by "Lawmakers."
It further entrenches the Power Elite as separate from and above their "subjects." It clearly demonstrates the paranoid delusions of the Establishment, pursuant to which it legislates a massive defense mechanism to protect itself from the populace that it subjugates.
I use these terms deliberately, because the so-called freedom of the vote has turned out to be a big con game. It is only the "freedom" to choose one set of thieves over the other. The blue suits or the red suits... All of them manufactured suits of the corporations.
Following in the train of this legislation will doubtless be internal travel documents, neighborhood snoops and spies, rewards granted for turning in politically incorrect thought criminals, mass civilian detention centers -- in short, the whole totalitarian control mechanism that we associate with the SS, KGB and other code words of criminal regimes. There will be "re-programming / rehabilitation" centers to correct errant free thinkers.
Take note that the Department of Homeland Security already has more than 750,000 persons on its watch list. For a glimpse of past as prologue, read Solzhenitsyn.
_Who Will Be Thought Police and Under What Standards?_
Who will define radical thought, and by what standards? For example, how about the reported millions who believe that 9-11 was an inside job, citing a mass of evidence from eye witnesses, physicists, engineers, and recorded statements such as "We pulled it," essentially a confession by the building's owner of the planned demolition of Building 7?
Will the writings of John Perkins in /Confessions of An Economic Hit Man /and /The Secret History of The American Empire/ be thought crimes? Will this very essay be a thought crime?
What about /Operation Northwoods,/ pursuant to which
the Joint Chiefs of the United States planned for
innocent people to be shot on American streets, for
boats carrying passengers to be sunk on the high seas,
for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched
within the country, and for other depraved acts
conceived in the minds of government-hired
psychopaths? Previously top-secret documents about this
were released on 18 November 1997 and can be
researched at www.wikipedia.
Soon enough, we will all be killing each other, and the statement of Mohandas Gandhi will be borne out: "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
Will thinking about cleansing the national soul of our atrocities -- of Iraq, Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, the advanced plans underway to nuke Iran, the crimes of Blackwater murderers, the government's domestic coercion and violence -- be "Thought Crimes?"
Will it be thought crime to conceive of a domestic Truth and Reconciliation Commission pursuant to which high government officials are brought to book for crimes against humanity?
Will it be "radicalization" to think of alternatives to a government of, by, and for the Corporatocracy, which accumulates its vast wealth through the blood money of endless war?
What about imagination-
Will it be radical to conceive of preventing the Cheney-Bush cabal from launching WWIII and the incineration of earth through a false flag operation against Iran?
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS OF OUR GOVERNMENT _
BECAUSE WE PAY FOR IT_
It has taken me too many years -- and too much income tax -- to come to the awful realization that these "public servants" are only hired mouthpieces and puppets of the Money Powers who operate behind the scenes to orchestrate war, to coordinate the Military Industrial Complex, the Homeland Security Complex, the NGO Help-The-Poor Complex, the "Third World Corporate Development" Complex. In short, the Exploitation Complex.
The roaring inside me is about the self-disgust at living by the whims of Nice Government Men and their intellectual and financial pimps -- men who, for just one example, can force starvation upon Indian farmers by their money printing press maneuvers to save their own hides from the overreach of blind greed. Men like those in Goldman Sachs who have the
power to bail out their own companies and pay billions in bonuses while manipulating currencies such that basic food staples become priced out of reach of the rural Indian poor.
Let our excuse for the sorry state in which we find ourselves be not ignorance, for history is quite clear to those who would study. I quote founding father James Madison, "/History records that money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible, to maintain their control over governments, by controlling money and its issuance."/ A more honest excuse would be our own greed and laziness. The quick buck. Buy now, pay later.
_Statement of Conscientious Objection _
HR 1955 as recently passed by the House of Representatives is in effect a Thought Crime Prevention Bill. This action simply stops my mind. It cannot be absorbed. This ultimate Police State freezes my imagination.
This newest version of draconian legislation on thought control is where Jeff Knaebel says enough is enough. Speaking truth to Power, I say, I am not your puppet. I declare my self-ownership. Come and get me if you wish. If you wish to own my body, you will have to imprison it. I am breaking the paper chains by which I have allowed you to enslave me.
Imagine with me for a moment (it may not yet be a thought crime). I say to Dick Cheney, "I refuse to obey. Come and get me, boss. Come alone -- I'll not run, and I am unarmed and harmless. Meet me in yonder open field." Standing in front of him, I remove my shirt, challenging him to do likewise. To prove his manhood equal, he follows along until we stand facing each other naked in the open field. I ask, "Now, what is your business with me?"
You see, it is all a mind game. The government is powerless before our non-cooperation. Of course, although an abstraction, it is a heavily armed abstraction. This argues for the right to bear arms and a well-armed citizenry in the American tradition. But if the mind behind the gun is cowardly and subdued, the gun is of no use. I suggest that nonviolent civil disobedience has proven to be a more effective method of regaining control of our lives. There would be significant loss of life, but much less than with an armed struggle.
Is murder an act that involves the human conscience? Can any other hear the voice of my inner conscience? Then, how can any such other claim the power to "represent" me in choosing to kill? How can such other "represent" me in determining which of my thoughts is criminal?
To say, or even to imply, that these people "represent" me cannot be described as an obscenity. It is an absurdity. Really, I should laugh. Instead it generates a roaring inside me -- the inner roar of a man who would be free.
_THIS IS MY PLACE OF "LIVE FREE OR DIE." _
One cannot deal with this except to speak out and be willing to put his life on the line. One must resist this legislation and this government, or else surrender his humanity and become a dead thing.
This is the place where the soles of my feet meet the
path of Liberty. This is where Jeff Knaebel refuses
to renew his "permission to live"
identification documents pursuant to which Big Brother
tracks him like an owned domestic animal. Any
situation in which I am not free to leave means
that my presence is by coercion or threat of coercion. If
one cannot leave some "place" except by
permission of the "owners" (passport),
then he is a slave. To learn more about issues of
expatriation and "man without a country," visit
my website at www.statelessfreedo
I was never the property even of my biological father, leave aside the absurdly stupid abstract concept of Nations -- bounded by arbitrary lines drawn on maps -- across which opposing armies of blood relations gun down the other.
My body is not the property of the U.S. Government. I will challenge the U.S. Government for ownership of my body, with my body itself. My mind will be forever free.
I did not ask for US citizenship, and I will not accept its rules even if forced upon me.
Any situation in which I am not free to leave means that my presence is by coercion or threat of coercion. If I cannot leave some "place" except by permission of the "owners" (passport), then I am a slave.
The US State does not own the land called America, and it does not own
anybody who was born there or lives there.
No bureaucrat has the right to define who I am -- and the murder of which other person I may be forced to finance -- by his stamp upon some arbitrary piece of paper.
I belong to none, other than Almighty Creation.
I claim my freedom to respect the lives of others, as I would be respected. Freedom to do no harm, and to eschew violence. Freedom to express compassion in action. Freedom to support life. Freedom not to finance murder.
No other can hear the voice of my conscience, let alone "represent" it, or speak for it. My conscience will be muffled by no person and by no law. Nor will I ever knowingly aggress against another.
_It Is Man's Duty To Love. _
It now must be of the "tough love" variety. We must see clearly and face bravely the reality of what we continue to create for ourselves. We must take up tough ethical positions.
We have proved again and again, over spans of millennia, that any kind of violent revolution will only turn the wheel of violence another revolution, around and around.
If we will but cease to destroy, we may live. We cannot negotiate with melting glaciers. Perhaps we can negotiate with the storms of insatiable greed and desire raging within our own minds. Perhaps we can come out of our addiction to more, more and faster, faster.
The revolution we must undertake to save ourselves is a revolution within our own minds toward loving kindness, truth, and respect for life.
_To those who would accept a legislated statutory slavery, I say -- may your shackles bind you without too much pain. May you go quietly into oblivion, and may you not burden me with the memory that you ever stood a watch with me on Spaceship Earth. _
/If you are interested in further exploration of personal statelessness, stop by and visit www.statelessfreedom.org
http://www.stateles
/November 5, 2007/
/Jeff Knaebel [send him mail <mailto:%20jksatmitra@
November 15, 2007
Dennis Kucinich and The Articles of Impeachment
As we observed Veteran's Day this week, our hearts ached as we thought about the thousands of troops who have been killed in Iraq and the many more who have returned home without adequate care for their physical and psychological wounds. Real support for our troops means bringing them home and caring for them when they return. It also means holding accountable those who sent them into this unjust war.
Thanks to Dennis Kucinich, impeachment is back in the national conversation. Earlier this month, Kucinich introduced H.Res 333/799, articles of impeachment against Vice President Cheney, and asked for a floor vote. The gutless Democratic leadership, instead of allowing a floor debate, moved the resolution to the House Judiciary Committee where it is in serious danger of languishing unless we speak up now. Please contact the members of the House Judiciary Committee (202) 225-3951 or by email and insist that they launch hearings on H.Res 333/799 immediately after the Thanksgiving break.And let's show Speaker Nancy Pelosi that we want impeachment back on the table. Over 12,000 of you have already signed our Impeach Cheney petition. If you haven't signed it yet, please do, and forward it to friends and family. We will hand deliver the petition to Speaker Pelosi to help bolster our demand to move forward with impeachment hearings.
To learn more about Kucinich's bold move, take a look at our own Linda Milazzo's article, "The Courage of Kucinich in Pelosi's House of Wacks."
Thank you for helping to hold our misleaders accountable! It is one way to honor the Iraq veterans who have given so much to our country and have received nothing but shoddy equipment, poor health care and PTSD in return. And that's if they're lucky enough to stay alive.
For peace and
accountability,
Dana, Desiree, Farida, Gael, Gayle, Ileana, Jodie, Medea,
Nancy, Rae, and Samantha
Weber Speaks on
the Israel Lobby at the University of Oregon
In spite of protests,
media smears and a delay caused by a flight cancellation,
Mark Weber addressed
a spirited meeting at the
University of Oregon in Eugene on Saturday afternoon,
Nov. 3, 2007.
The Pacifica Forum, a campus public affairs discussion group, had invited the IHR director, and organized the meeting. Weber’s appearance generated wide media attention, and prompted a protest demonstration.
In his address, entitled “The Israel Lobby: How Powerful is It?,” Weber said that awareness of the role and impact of the Israel lobby is growing everywhere. (The text of the address is posted here.)
A major factor contributing to this trend is the recent publication of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, an important new book by professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer. “I challenge any fair-minded person,” said Weber,” to read just the chapter on Israel’s invasion last year of Lebanon, and the role of the US and the Israel lobby in that invasion, without a feeling of rage over America’s support for and complicity in the Zionist state’s criminal rampage of Lebanon … I challenge any caring American to read this book without feeling shame over the leadership of this country, and disgust over the immorality and corruption of the compliant politicians of both major parties.”
The Walt-Mearsheimer book, Weber said, “is much more than a penetrating analysis or persuasive critique of a particular lobby. It is implicitly a damning indictment of the American social-political system.” The Israel lobby is no ordinary interest group, he went on, and it is more accurate to speak instead of the Jewish lobby, or of Jewish-Zionist power.
During the lively question and answer period that followed the main address, a veteran “anti-hate” activist and vociferous critic of the Pacifica Forum named Michael Williams told the audience that Weber’s talk was “without merit.” However, in response to questioning by Weber, the critic was not able to cite even a single untrue or inaccurate statement in the address.
Perhaps the most moving moment was when a young woman in a wheel chair told how she had been nearly killed in an explosion while serving with US forces in Iraq, and then poignantly asked about the meaning of her sacrifice. “Why did this happen to me?,” she said.
Weber responded by saying that she can be proud of her devotion to duty and her courage, but stressed that her idealism and dedication had been betrayed by political leaders who sent her and many other young Americans to Iraq on the basis of deceit and lies, and for an unworthy cause. Nothing is more painful, he added, than the thought that the life of a loved one has been sacrificed in vain.
Weber was introduced by Orval Etter, a retired University of Oregon faculty member who founded the Pacifica Forum. The Associate Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Administration is a life-long pacifist and peace activist, a skilled cellist, and co-founder of the Eugene Symphony.
Weber’s Saturday presentation was recorded for later broadcast on local public access television. Among the 40-45 men and women who gathered in the campus meeting hall for the event were reporters from a local radio station and from the Daily Emerald, the university student newspaper. The Emerald’s report on the meeting appeared two days later.
Prior to his arrival in Eugene, media coverage of Weber’s appearance included two op-ed opinion essays in the local Register-Guard newspaper, one of which was supportive of the appearance, as well as several readers’ letters. Jewish community leaders protested Weber’s appearance, denouncing the historian as a “Holocaust denier” and an “anti-Semite.”
A provocative quarter-page advertisement promoting Weber’s talk had appeared in the local Eugene Weekly, and posters and flyers announcing the Pacifica Forum meeting were posted around the campus.
In connection with the Eugene event, Weber was a guest on a half-hour segment of the popular “Lars Larson” talk radio show, broadcast on Portland radio station KXL. (The segment can be heard through the IHR website’s “Audio Archive” section).
A cancelled connecting flight prevented the IHR director from addressing the originally scheduled meeting on Friday evening. Among the many disappointed men and women who had arrived to hear him speak were persons who had driven many miles, including as far away as Portland .
Encouraged by a hostile Register-Guard editorial, several dozen men and women gathered for a Friday evening “vigil” to protest Weber’s appearance and to denounce “hate.”
Intel Official: Expect Less Privacy
Nov 11 02:36 PM US/Eastern
By PAMELA HESS
Associated Press Writer
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SRKO580&show_article=1
WASHINGTON (AP) - As Congress debates new rules
for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official
says it is time that people in the United States changed
their definition of privacy.
Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr,
the principal deputy director of national intelligence.
Instead, it should mean that government and businesses
properly safeguard people's private communications and
financial information. Kerr's comments come as Congress
is taking a second look at the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act.
Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to
allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United
States without court permission, so long as one end of
the conversation was reasonably believed to be located
outside the U.S. The original law required a court order
for any surveillance conducted on U.S. soil, to protect
Americans' privacy. The White House argued that the law
was obstructing intelligence gathering because, as
technology has changed, a growing amount of foreign
communications passes through U.S.-based channels.
The most contentious issue in the new legislation is
whether to shield telecommunications companies from civil
lawsuits for allegedly giving the government access to
people's private e-mails and phone calls without a FISA
court order between 2001 and 2007. Some lawmakers,
including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
appear reluctant to grant immunity. Suits might be the
only way to determine how far the government has burrowed
into people's privacy without court
permission. The committee is expected to decide this week
whether its version of the bill will protect
telecommunications companies. About 40 wiretapping suits
are pending.
The central witness in a California lawsuit against
AT&T says the government is vacuuming up billions of
e-mails and phone calls as they pass through an AT&T
switching station in San Francisco.
Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, helped connect
a device in 2003 that he says diverted and copied onto a
government supercomputer every call, e-mail, and Internet
site access on AT&T lines.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed the
class-action suit, claims there are as many as 20 such
sites in the U.S.
The White House has promised to veto any bill that does
not grant immunity from suits such as this one.
Congressional leaders hope to finish the bill by
Thanksgiving. It would replace the FISA update enacted in
August that privacy groups and civil libertarians say
allows the government to read Americans' e- mails and
listen to their phone calls without court oversight.
Kerr said at an October intelligence conference in San
Antonio that he finds concerns that the government may be
listening in odd when people are "perfectly willing
for a green-card holder at an (Internet service provider)
who may or may have not have been an illegal entrant to
the United States to handle their data." He noted
that government employees face up to five years in prison
and
$100,000 in fines if convicted of misusing private
information.
Millions of people in this country-particularly young
people-already have surrendered anonymity to social
networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, and to
Internet commerce. These sites reveal to the public,
government and corporations what was once closely guarded
information, like
personal statistics and credit card numbers. "Those
two generations younger than we are have a very different
idea of what is essential privacy, what they would wish
to protect about their lives
and affairs. And so, it's not for us to inflict one size
fits all," said Kerr, 68. "Protecting anonymity
isn't a fight that can be won. Anyone that's typed in
their name on Google understands that."
"Our job now is to engage in a productive debate,
which focuses on privacy as a component of appropriate
levels of security and public safety," Kerr said.
"I think all of us have to really take stock of what
we already are willing to give up, in terms of anonymity,
but (also) what safeguards we want in place to be sure
that giving that doesn't empty our bank account or do
something equally bad elsewhere."
Kurt Opsahl, a senior staff lawyer with the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, an advocacy group that defends
online free speech, privacy and intellectual property
rights, said Kerr's argument ignores both privacy laws
and American history. Anonymity has been important since
the Federalist Papers were written under
pseudonyms," Opsahl said. "The government has
tremendous power: the police
power, the ability to arrest, to detain, to take away
rights. Tying together that someone has spoken out on an
issue with their identity is a far more dangerous thing
if it is the government that is trying to tie it
together."
Opsahl also said Kerr ignores the distinction between
sacrificing protection from an intrusive government and
voluntarily disclosing information in exchange for a
service. "There is something fundamentally different
from the government having information about you than
private parties," he said. "We shouldn't have
to give people the choice between taking advantage of
modern communication tools and sacrificing their
privacy."
"It's just another 'trust us, we're the
government,'" he said.
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No law compels a work eligible man or woman to submit a
form W-4 or W-9(or their equivalent) nor disclose an SSN
as a condition of being hired or keeping one's job.
With the exception of an order from a court of competent
jurisdiction issued by a duly qualified judge, no amounts
can be lawfully taken from one's pay (for taxes, fees or
other charges) without the worker's explicit, knowing,
voluntary, written consent.
http://www.preferredservices.org/NonconsentualTaking.html