-Caveat Lector- The following article was taken from the http://saunders4congress.com website. The person who sent it to me added Bible verses at the end. I snipped the Bible text & left the verse numbers if you want to look them up. IMHO the privacy issue is important regardless of your religious beliefs. Tenorlove ------------- Identification Chip Implants Researchers say the technology is currently available to implant biometric devices in human beings that can be monitored by hand held scanners, door monitors, or even government satellites. Though not yet generally available to the public, trials of sub-skin implants have been underway for some time. For instance, The London Times reported in October 1998, "... Film stars and the children of millionaires are among 45 people, including several Britons, who have been approached and fitted with the chips (called the Sky Eye) in secret tests." In a recent study of microchip implantation technology, written by Elaine M. Ramish for the Franklin Pierce Law Center, Ramish said she believes the implementation of such devices will eventually become a reality despite their controversial identification role. The proponents of biochip implants often dismiss privacy concerns as paranoia that is unfounded unless one is a criminal or has something to hide. I don't know about the proponents of ID implants, but I would prefer not to have my entire life open to inspection by whoever has the correct code. If the past track record of the government keeping private records private is indicative of their ability in this arena, I definitely would refuse to willingly give them any information whatsoever. A national identification system via microchip implants would be implemented in two stages. Upon introduction as a voluntary system, the microchip implantation will appear to be palatable. The advantages and use of implant identification will spread the acceptance and assist with future implementation. Soon many everyday activities will either require or be simplified by use of implants. Once biochip implants are made an almost necessity in everyday life, then the push will be made to make implants mandatory through public advertising. Then after there is a familiarity with the procedure and a general acceptance of its benefits, implantation would be made mandatory. This is the way they implemented the requirement of a driver's license to operate a vehicle, the general use of Social Security cards, and the soon to be implemented use of codes on our driver's license converting them into federal ID cards. The implants are simply the next step, a dangerous next step. Microchips are about the size of a grain of rice and coated with biocompatible glass. Upon implantation by syringe, connective tissue should form to prevent migration. The procedure is very low-cost and simple. All chips are implanted in the same place to allow for easy reading and standardization. The back of the left hand is often suggested as a suitable placement. The only impasses preventing implementation is acceptance and a chosen standard for chips and scanners. Government can easily order standardizing chips and scanners. This is why we must use haste in seeking laws prohibiting the use of biochip identification implants. Putting this off will result in total compromise of our privacy and right to protect our own personal information. The arguments in favor of biometric chip implants are numerous. They fall into three classes; personal convenience, medical, and criminal. Each advantage will be used to "sell" implants to every sector of our society. The arguments will be logical, stressing the benign nature and unintrusiveness of implantation. The issue of invasion into personal life and recording of individual trends and behavior will be brushed aside as trivial. We will be told any small intrusion that may be a side effect of implants is minimal when compared to the great gains. I believe the implementation of implants will take stage in three steps. First, the use of read only, then the use of read/write, finally with the addition of tracking properties. Each has a purpose for which it is best suited, and each has limitations requiring progression to the next capability. This is why we cannot allow bio-implantation to begin; once started we will have lost the entire argument. Each stage will lead irrevocably to the next. The read only implants will be first offered on a voluntary basis. These implants will replace drivers' license, credit cards, library card, and other forms of identification. The argument will be presented that you will no longer need access codes or carry all those "bulky" credit cards and identification cards. These will be "safe" cards, as only the information initially supplied will be incorporated onto the implanted chip. This will have some obvious limitations as some of the data is subject to change. This would require removal of the old chip and implanting a new updated chip. This will lead to a call for read/write chip implants, thus removing the need to remove the implant to install updates. With the added property of updating the data stored on your personal implant, all new uses will begin to be implemented. Medical records will be added with the argument that this data would be available in any emergency. And what harm could there be in including your driving record? None, unless you have something to hide. Same for any criminal record, even employment records, or any other form of personal records. Only a criminal would be fearful of having personal information placed on their implant. This leads to the claim that only a criminal would destroy or alter their implant. How would we avoid such tampering? The final step will come to assist the government in protecting us from criminals and others who might tamper with their implants. This would require the addition of tracking properties. Along with the tracking, a tamper detection circuit could be installed into the implant that would send an alert signal. Furthermore, anybody not implanted with a properly transmitting implant would automatically be arrested as a criminal. With all this done for our security and convenience, how could we object. Simplified life, easy criminal identification, cash free society, a new modern age of promise, this is what implants offer us. Now let us look at what else they offer. Government and others with access would have complete records on our spending habits, personal tendencies, employment history, criminal records, health records and anything else government decides to include. One glitch or failure in our implant could result in prolonged incarceration and untold hardship. Even our private transactions would be recorded with the government. Government could use the gathered data to fashion taxes to affect behavior and view the results over time. Even our whereabouts would be tracked with the implants. Our right to assemble would be restricted as all attending an assembly could be identified. Through this monitoring the government could effectively harass and otherwise punish opposing peoples from organizing. Do we really believe the current political entities would not use this to further their hold on society and power? Nothing would remain secret from the ever-watching eye of the government. Remembering that information is power, giving the government all our individual information is giving government all control over the individual. If we do not prevent this, then the individual will become the outlaw, and government will be empowered to define what we, as individuals, can or cannot be. The Fourth Amendment states, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probably cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Microchip implantation is clearly the ultimate in "unreasonable searches and seizures" as well as an infringement on "the right of the people to be secure in their persons ... [which] shall not be violated". Implantation must be banned. ------------- Friend's verses: Revelation 13:16-18. Matthew 5:18. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. John 3:11-21. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! 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