RFID Stuff
An article, entitled The Taking of Free Will, notes the increase in popularity of RFID tags:
In October, 2004, the FDA approved an implantable microchip for use in humans. A tiny subcutaneous RFID tag, now made by several American companies like Applied Digital Solutions, VeriChip, and Digital Angel are mass-producing RFID chips and stocking chip warehouses and implantation centers. Upper level governmental officials are getting “chipped” to demonstrate public acceptance of the technology, and they are very quick to highlight the humanitarian uses of tracking devices in humans.
Children and pets should be chipped in case they get lost. Chipping children will help to locate kidnapped kids. Chipping senior citizens gives hospitals immediate access to their medical records. Many millionaires and their children are chipping themselves for security reasons. Large herds of cattle and sheep are implanted to assist ranchers and farmers with efficient tracking. Security, medical and emergency applications seem to be call of the corporations and their government backers when it comes to the new branding technologies, but for American citizens it is, first and foremost, an outrage, unthinkable, immoral, and for many it is demonic.
Also, related to guns is this:
And gun owners – heads up! On April 13, 2004, Applied Digital Solutions announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, VeriChip Corporation, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with FN Manufacturing [makers of the FN FiveseveN that is drawing so much anti-gun scrutiny – ed.], a leading gun manufacturer, to develop a first in the world of firearms. Their objective is an integrated” User Authorization System” for firearms using VeriChip RFID technology. You shall be chipped in order to keep and bear. You had to know that was coming considering the 30-year, non-stop efforts to deny you of your 2nd Amendment rights.
I realize that RFID is a useful tool but if we get to the point where it is mandatory, I’ll be particularly worried. Even as the parent of a small child who can see the benefits of having her chipped, I am loathe to actually doing so.
May 4th, 2005 at 8:59 am
Chipping is essentially branding. If you wouldn’t use a hot iron to make your mark on your kid’s back side, why would you us an RFID chip?
May 4th, 2005 at 12:59 pm
I think I have a solution for the governments desire to know all. A way to ensure they can track each and every one of us, create jobs, and maintain the constitution shredding at a pace unsurpassed since yesterday! We allow the government to hire individuals to spy on us all. Each child would be appointed a spy as well as each adult in the household. Pretty soon we could end un-employment totally, end welfare as we know it by producing jobs, end crime and drug abuse, and, and, and WUHAHAHAHA!!!
I think they need to keep the tracking chips for the cattle, and if you feel the above is a touch over the top consider this. In most jobs there is a standard for drug testing. Now the new craze for Human Resource offices is the hair follicle testing. This will show any and all substance (legal or non) consumed over a 90 day period of time, as well as any medical issues. No more borrowing a friends prescription pain medicine for a migraine, no more visiting friends who socially use marijuana (and we all have those friends), no more doing anything out of line or it could cost you your job. If my employer can legally see what I have done over the course of 90 days, and my government wants to implant tracking chips on my person, then let’s go ahead and have a constitutional bon fire and toss it out, and while were at it the Bill of Rights can go too. Create a police state and accept it. Without so much a fight, it is headed that direction and no one has time or the ability to fight the powers to be to even slow it down.
We are quickly progressing there from police raids on schools, Police ability to shave hair for testing without probable cause, a White House that wants a patriot act to allow sneak and peek on its own citizens. Socialist, Communist, Democratic are now all things of the past. We will have to invent a new name for the technology era of today for what we are to become with no rights and full government control. Take our land (eminent domain), spy on our homes (sneak and peek), create wheel taxes (taxation without representation), attacks on our freedoms of speech, diminishing privacy in the workplace now spreading to our homes, millions of dollars passing through the court system and still a weak education system, and I’m not even a conspiracy theorist. That is allot to swallow, but each thing listed is daily news anymore and there are not enough people outraged over it to spark so much as a small protest. Oh sweet land of liberty… What would our forefathers think?
http://www.civilwarphotos.net/files/casualties.htm
May 4th, 2005 at 2:34 pm
If chips become mandatory for any purpose, I’m outta here.
Costa Rica sounds nice.