Paranoia Express: Implantable Microchips

Originally posted - Friday, May 26, 2006

Paranoia Express: Implantable Microchips
Glenn Beck and my father are to blame for this, but I feel like writing about something scary. Darla, I know you well enough to know that you won't want to read any further. You can thank me later. After 9/11, I made the comment that terrorism would spell the end of privacy rights. I said that our government would eventually implement a tracking system for EVERYTHING. Why would we do this? It solves a multitude of our current issues. This tracking/information system would be some form of nano-technology that would be placed within the body in a from that would likely be impossible to remove.
Let's look at all the issues this device could solve. These will be in the order that I think of them rather than by importance.
1) Passwords and the "speed age." As a realtor, I have at least 15 websites that I use occasionally each with its own password and user ID. Often I'm not able to change the user ID or password, so I just have to remember them. For the main site (MLS), I have to remember a 9-digit code, then I put in my pin number (4 digits), then I put in the 6-digit code that's on my keypad. This keypad has 6 digits on it that change every minute of every day 24/7/365. This is just for work. What about your security system at your house? What about your check card? Did you check your email today? Did you get on myspace? Did you have to "sign on" to your internet service? Do you have a social security number? Passwords are everywhere. They are our current "identity" checker. Anything typed on a computer can be taken off a computer. ALL of your information is on some computer somewhere. The chip could solve identity issues. Illegal immigrants steal social security numbers all the time. They can't do this if one's identity is beamed from a chip inside one's body. Imagine a world where you pump gas without ever swiping a card. You deposit or withdraw money at the bank without having to stop and fill out those slips. You go to the grocery store and don't have to wait in line for FOREVER while you get "checked out." You simply walk out the door. You go shopping at the mall and try on a new outfit. You like it so you want to buy it. Well, you just keep it on and walk out of the store. Don't you see that our world has become the "speed age" more so than the "information age." Information just helps us speed up processes. When people buy homes today, we can show them everything available that fits what they're looking for by doing an internet search. Yes this is information, but it is information meant to speed up the process. Our culture, and more importantly, our economy, is moving towards whatever speeds things up. That's why we have automatic, online bill paying now. Itunes gives me the latest song without my ever having to put on pants (I'm wearing pants anyway though, just for you). Okay, have I proven my point on this one yet?
2) Terrorism/Illegal Immigration- Anyone who comes into our country could be forced to take this chip in him or her. We will know exactly where they are and exactly how long they've been here. Anyone who doesn't have this chip wouldn't be able to survive. If someone from Mexico came over, they would have to have the chip to buy food. One could only steal for so long. Viola, the border issue is solved. Who would want to come over if they couldn't survive. Let's say, however, that Mexico gets on board with this technology. Then, we would know that illegals have come into our country. Anyone who doesn't register when they come over would be breaking the law. Terrorism would still happen, but if we have everyone injected and we suspect who is to blame, then we would know instantly where to find this person. Do you see how these 2 are related? If we inject every one who comes into our country, then they can't perform a terrorist act and get out. This is why illegal immigration would EVENTUALLY become a real crime to our government rather than something that's seen as an opportunity for amnesty like it is now.
3) Others- How do you speed when you're being tracked? How do you steal someone's car when it has a tracker in it? How do you kidnap and molest a child when the tracker will lead police right to you? Let's say a patient is brought into an emergency room. The doctor doesn't know who the patient is because the patient is unconscious and the people who brought him in just found him on the street. They don't know him or his medical history. The doctor needs to use either one drug or another based on the blood type of the patient. The chip could give the doctor the information immediately. Otherwise the doctor would have to run tests which in the meantime, the patient could die. Imagine how this chip could help the military. It would know exactly where every soldier is in real time. 25 percent of the deaths in the invasion of Iraq were due to friendly fire. The military has already taken steps to prevent these kinds of deaths by placing real-time trackers on their vehicles. The "friendlies" show up on monitors. The problem is that it only shows vehicles, not men. The plane that hit the pentagon on 9/11 turned off its tracker. We had our F16's over the ocean because we didn't know where it was. If we would have had the chip, we could have easily found out who was on the plane and then found out where these people were. Don't you see how this chip only makes sense? If it can really do all of this, why wouldn't we use it? It's coming. At the same time, the danger is that this information will get into the wrong hands, not "if." I'm only 24. This chip, in some form, will be in circulation by the time I retire. The technology already exists. It's just a matter of time. I don't know about all the "out-there" interpretations of Revelation, but I will say this. It's extremely possible that this technology will provide governments with a power never seen before. The question is, isn't it possible that the UN or some other organization will try to have this chip implemented throughout the world to bring these "benefits" and to prevent terrorism? What then?
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I recently made a video on this subject in conjunction with another topic that I haven't discussed yet--The European Union. I admit that this might be over-dramatic right now, but nonetheless, it worries me. Take a look at the slideshow, but keep in mind that I'm connecting percieved dots. I feel like things are moving, slowly, but surely toward this. I will get to the subject of the EU and it's role in globalism soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXpmZYkaBKM