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As we keep telling you, they are going to figure out a way to chip the entire population sooner or later...And they are doing their very best to make certain it is sooner! Not content with implanting chips into...
...they now want to put them in the arms of 1.4 million military personnel in the US. How long before they want to do it to the UK's military personnel too? THIS IS HAPPENING AND WE ARE TELLING YOU EVERY STEP OF THE WAY THAT IT NEEDS TO BE STOPPED. In the words of Liz McIntyre, co-author with Katherine Albrecht of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with RFID,"
I just do not know what else to tell you. I have told you over and over again that if you sit quietly and idly by whilst they do this, you will soon be on the list of people to get one. Sometimes I despair at how easy I am making this for you and how little complaint I hear coming from anywhere. COMPLAIN. SHOUT. WRITE TO YOU MP. E-MAIL VERICHIP AND TELL THEM WHERE TO PUT THEIR CHIP. SOMETHING...ANYTHING. How about this...Copy and paste this link into an e-mail and send it to everybody in your address book. Maybe if there are more of "us" then there will be enough noise to be heard but, believe me, once the rest of society has been chipped you will be left in the cold without the chip. No healthcare. No driving privileges. No school for your children. No buying or selling. Nothing will be possible unless you have the RFID chip implanted into your body. Yes, I know, I sound like a crackpot... And many of you thought that when I told you that the army would be getting them next... |
Monday 21st August 2006 | NewsMax.com |
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A Florida company wants to get under the skin of 1.4 million U.S. servicemen and women. VeriChip Corp, based in Delray Beach, Fla., and described by the D.C. Examiner as "one of the most aggressive marketers of radio frequency identification chips," is hoping to convince the Pentagon to allow them to insert the chips, known as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips under the skin of the right arms of U.S. servicemen and servicewomen to enable them to scan an arm and obtain that person’s identity and medical history. The chips would replace the legendary metal dog tags that have been worn by U.S. military personnel since 1906. The device is usually implanted above the triceps area of an individual’s right arm, but can also by implanted in the hand if scanned at the proper frequency. The VeriChip responds with a unique 16-digit number, which can correlate the user to information stored on a database for identity verification, medical records access, and other uses. The insertion procedure is performed under local anesthetic, and once inserted it is invisible to the naked eye. The company, which the Examiner notes has powerful political connections, is "in discussions” with the Pentagon, VeriChip spokeswoman Nicole Philbin told the Examiner. "The potential for this technology doesn’t just stop at the civilian level,” Philbin said. Company officials have touted the chips as versatile, able to be used in a variety of situations such as helping track illegal immigrants or giving doctors immediate access to patient’s medical records. On Monday the Department of State started to issue electronic passports (e-passports) equipped with RFID chips. According to reports the U.S. government has placed an order with a California company, Infineon Technologies North America, for smart chip-embedded passports. The Associated Press said the new U.S. passports include an electronic chip that contains all the data contained in the paper version name, birth date, gender, for example and can be read by digital scanners at equipped airports. They cost 14 percent more than their predecessors but the State Department said they will speed up going through Customs and help enhance border security. The company's hefty political clout is typified by having former secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson, on its board of directors. Thompson assured the Examiner that the chip is safe and that no one — not even military personnel, who are required by law to follow orders — will be forced to accept an implant against his or her will. He has also promised to have a chip implanted in himself but could not tell the Examiner when. "I’m extremely busy and I’m waiting until my hospitals and doctors are able to run some screens," he told the newspaper. Not everybody agrees with Thompson, the Examiner reported, noting that the idea of implanting the chips in live bodies has some veterans’ groups and privacy advocates worried. "It needs further study,” Joe Davis, a retired Air Force major and a spokesman for the D.C. office of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, told the Examiner. And Liz McIntyre, co-author with Katherine Albrecht of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with RFID," said that VeriChip is "a huge threat” to public privacy. "They’re circling like vultures for any opportunity to get into our flesh,” McIntyre told the Examiner. "They’ll start with people who can’t say no, like the elderly, sex offenders, immigrants, and the military. Then they’ll come knocking on our doors.” In an e-mail to the Examiner, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., wrote: "If that is what the Defense Department has in mind for our troops in Iraq, there are many questions that need answers. "What checks and balances, safeguards, and congressional oversight would there be?” Leahy asked. "What less-invasive alternatives are there? What information would be entered on the chips, and could it endanger our soldiers or be intercepted by the enemy?” The company, the Examiner wrote, is also unsure about the technology. According to company documents, radio frequencies in ambulances and helicopters could disrupt the chips’ transmissions. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, VeriChip also said it was unsure whether the chip would dislodge and move through a person’s body. It could also cause infections and "adverse tissue reactions,” the SEC filing states. But Philbin downplayed the danger of the chips. "It’s the size of a grain of rice,” she said. "It’s like getting a shot of penicillin.” |
