The Chips Are Down! Think Fast!

August 17, 2007

Hello, Folks;

I wish to offer you come comments on an article written by Todd Lewan of the Associated Press titled "Microchips: High-tech helpers or spies?" published in The Fayetteville Observer, July 23, 2007.

In the article, he discusses the various applications and so-called current theories with respect to microchips that are used for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification).

The thrust of the article lays out arguments pro and against the use of chips for identification of animals, merchandise in stores, and yes, even people, by the use of implanted devices that can be read with an electronic scanner.

What troubles me a great deal is the concept that the chips have been implanted in humans. While Lewan appears to say that it was only recently that a few people were implanted, I believe he is badly mistaken with regards to the facts.

I can remember that in the early 1990's, welfare mothers were implanted as part of a trial study to reduce welfare fraud. I also believe this technology has been used militarily by implantation in soldiers, for many years.

Now people are being induced to accept implantation as a condition of employment, ostensibly for the purposes of insuring that highly sensitive data and areas are protected from unauthorized intrusion. This is revealed in Lewan's article which discusses implantation in employees of CityWatcher.com.

I would encourage everyone to read and understand what is being done with this type of writing. You are being made to believe that there are acceptable conditions justifying implantation for security or medical reasons. The next step is no farther than making implantation in children mandatory for entry into schools, marking them for life.

After that can come implantation being required for receiving medical services, being able to use a bank, or any one of a myriad of other everyday activities we partake of. One salient point is that Lewan seems to advance the position that GPS location monitoring does not yet exist. Say who?

Let me disabuse Lewan and the readers of that fallacy. The GPS 24/7 location monitoring ability does and has existed for quite sometime in the form of RFID readers such as are commonly used by the automotive and manufacturing industry to track parts and/or completed units as they travel past or through scanners which identify each by its unique chip number. That information is transmitted through wireless radio transmitters to a central computer in the plant for purposes of inventory control, shipping and receiving data, and billing.

Folks, that same exact technology can easily be used to track any human being implanted with a chip in doorways where a scanner is mounted; on the street when someone walks past a pole mounted scanner masquerading as a plain and innocuous fiberglass box, perhaps with a small antenna at the top of the pole, using coils imbedded in streets as been done for many years to track vehicles. This is done by RFID and the cars' on-board computers technology developed by Texas Instruments and Hewlett Packard in the early 1990's, with all the information thus gleaned sent through the thousands of cell phone towers littering the country, to a central collection point. No problem.

You better think this one through a bit more, Folks. It is is time to take a stance with regard to the ever increasing encroachment into your privacy. If you don't like the idea, join the No Vote Party and help put a stop to this societal cancer.

D. Tom