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To: Chemist_Geek

You are comparing Microsoft Access with my example of microchipping babies?

I never said that ALL things that have potential to someday evolve into a device for violating our rights WILL do that. I said that the mindset that such things are harmless is a dangerous one.

Satan infiltrates the minds of our society with statemens like, "It's ok for the government to violate our rights to an extent because they are trying to protect us", so that when the time comes for him to finally violate us in a major way, the door is opened for him.

And the fact that some guy somewhere may at some point use Microsoft Access to keep track of the all the people he murdered, does not mean that the software was designed as a tool for this purpose. But this GPS thing WAS designed as a tool to watch us...they are advertising it as such. And they will slowly impose upon us the mindset that watching us more and more often and more closely is in our best interest. Any time we agree with what we are doing, we are helping them. We must resist the urge to "protect" our children by tagging them like cattle. How bad would you feel if the GPS phone that you bought in order to be a responsible was used by some government agency next week to arrest your child because he went to a youth group meeting or a church rally to praise God?

I realize that nobody is being tracked and arrested for this purpose, but the day will come when Christians have to hide in order stay alive. And if my son is one of those in hiding, and they find him because he has a chip in his arm, then I am the bad guy, for letting it happen.

Even if I did only have him implanted so that the "smart house of the future" would know where he was in the house and be able to notify him of his emails and switch on the lights for him. It starts simple, and as something that we feel might make our lives better. There is no way we can stop it all from happening. And there is no way that we can eliminate all the things that may someday violate our rights, but I think the biggest thing we can do is learn to see the possible consequences of just accepting some of these things as "changes" that will happen because the future is leaning toward more technology.

It starts as a chip on a motherboard that tells Bill Gates if I have a stolen copy of Windows on my computer...but eventually the clothing companies will be able to track their sweaters to make sure we aren't violating their TOS by wearing it into a competitor's store. It's a slippery slope. We are going to slip a bit, but we need to hold on as tight as we can to not hit hard on the bottom.


36 posted on 12/10/2004 7:55:10 AM PST by melbell (groovy)
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To: melbell
My post is no more hyperbolic than yours - Access is a database program sold by a private company to voluntary customers, but that technology could allow government to store and process information about us.

How is that any less dangerous than a GPS tracking chip installed in a cell phone sold by a private company to voluntary customers, but that technology could allow government to track anyone's location in near real time.

Saying that any technology that could be abused to "violate rights" is dangerous and ought not to be developed or sold, is sheer Luddism.

37 posted on 12/10/2004 8:03:19 AM PST by Chemist_Geek ("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)
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