Imagine how much easier the coroners life would be if EVERYBODY had a chip injected under their skin?!??! You don't actually fall for any of this stuff do you? The insertion of a microchip in the body of a person is not only insidious in terms of its possible long-term effects or usage but it is downright wrong to suggest that everybody MUST have one regardless of whether or not they want one. The governments legislate just about everything in your life. They make laws that make no sense. They fine you for rushing down the road when only ten miles back you were in a five mile queue and you are so replaceable in your job that you simply cannot afford to be late for fear of ending up on the New Deal! Who is fining the government for the slow speeds you have to do on the roads? Anyway, I digress...The point is simple. If the government want to make ridiculous, nonsensical laws then that is one thing (which you should not be allowing them to do by the way!) but if they are forcing you to have an electronic chip injected into your body then that is surely a step too far for anybody? Well it is coming and the longer you take to realise it the less chance there will be of you being able to do anything to stop it. They are preparing us for the Big Brother state. You will be tracked everywhere you go. Everything you say will be monitored. If you go somewhere that they don't want you to go or if you say something that they don't want you to say then you will be punished, probably by instant electric shock from your chip! Punishment without trial or any form of due process? They just label you a terrorist like they have labeled me and then you are open season. Terrorists don't get a trial or a hearing. They don't get their one phone call. They don't get the liberty of the Geneva Conventions or the protections of the International Court of Human Rights. They have no rights and anybody can be deemed a terrorist...Read the legislation. Read the Anti Terrorism Act 2001 if you don't believe me. The definition of a terrorist is so loose and broad that it could even be applied to Sylvia Hardy. She attempted to protest to achieve a political change...She IS a terrorist according to this bill...Before you know it you are a terrorist and then YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS. Anybody who thinks that the escalation from ID chip to total control system is unrealistic, please bear in mind that the boring old loyalty store card has transformed itself from a way of paying customers for their loyalty into a way of tracking what they buy, when they buy it, in what quantity and how best to market products to them that they don't want to ensure that they buy them anyway thus make the store the most possible profit. On top of this, the government has already announced that the "taking up of the slack" required to fully subsidise the National ID Card will be achieved by selling your personal information on to data basing and marketing companies! Surely ID theft can only become a thing of the past when we stop giving random people all of our personal details? And whilst we are on the subject...What was wrong with the good, old-fashioned toe-tag? |
Wednesday September 28th 2005 | Associated Press
As body counts mounted and missing-person reports multiplied in the days after Hurricane Katrina, some morgue workers began using a new technology to keep track of unidentified remains.
Radio frequency identification chips slender red cylinders about half an inch long were implanted under the corpses' skin or placed inside body bags.
Each VeriChip, donated by a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions Inc., emits a specific radio signal, enabling morgue workers to quickly locate and catalog the remains and reduce errors.
With dozens of bodies in two Mississippi counties Harrison and Hancock still unidentified, Harrison County Coroner Gary T. Hargrove said the chips have been a boon to the Disaster Mortuary Operational Recovery Team he oversees.
"It's better enabled me to do my job as the coroner tracking and getting people's loved ones back to them quickly," he said.
Beside tagging the storm victims, which are kept in refrigerated trucks at Gulfport-Biloxi Regional Airport, the chips are helping Hargrove catalog other human remains that the flood waters released from damaged caskets and burial vaults in cemeteries.
In all, 133 bodies have been recovered in Harrison and Hancock counties, accounting for more than half of the 220 people killed by Katrina in Mississippi. At least 1,079 deaths have been attributed to Katrina in five states.
RFID chips are increasingly being used to monitor the movement of goods and equipment, by the likes of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the U.S. military.
Approved by the Food and Drug Administration for human implantation in 2004, the VeriChip implants have been used for tagging pets and identifying high-security workers, but not for managing morgue cases before, Applied Digital spokesman John O. Procter said.
Each chip comes packaged in a white plastic injector that looks like a bulky pen attached to a thick hypodermic needle.
Hargrove said the chips are implanted in the corpse's shoulder or placed inside the body bag, depending on the condition of the remains.