Posted on 02/07/2006 9:54:16 PM PST by bildabare
WILLIAM DONELSON'S left hand gripped the paper-covered arm of an antique barber chair at a tattoo and piercing shop in Cambridge, Ontario. His feet bounced gently on the chrome footrest as he waited for his implant.
The piercer — whose day is usually spent inserting rings into the eyebrows and navels of teenage girls — snapped on purple latex gloves and lifted a four-millimeter-wide sterilized needle to Mr. Donelson's hand.
"I'm set," Mr. Donelson said with a deep breath. He watched as the needle pierced the fleshy webbing between his thumb and forefinger and a microchip was slid under his skin. At last he would be able to do what he had long imagined: enhance his body's powers through technology.
By inserting the chip, a radio frequency identification
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Being in the building line, I'm constantly pulling splinters out of my fingers, hands. Some with more agony than others.
Like I would really want someone to shoot this piece of junk into my hand, leg or a$$.
But that's just me.
Tim McVeigh complain that a chip was implanted and he was being controled?
This was in Soldier Mag way before Oklahoma Bombing
I just hope our gubment is using this technology to track terrorists. What better way to find the cell leaders then to chip some terrorist, in say Pakistan, "allow" them to escape, then track their movements.
Of course the down side to doing something like that successfully, would lead to getting everyone chipped, so that illegals and criminals could be "monitored,"
By inserting the chip, a radio frequency identification device, Mr. Donelson would literally have at his fingertips the same magic that makes security gates swing open with a swipe of a card, and bridge and tunnel traffic flow smoothly with an E-ZPass. With a wave of his hand he planned to log on to his computer, open doors and unlock his car.
Or programed the chip in the person unknowlingly to blow or detonate a building??
That Murrah buildings I truely believe was already wired to be blasted!
One will never know but this 2+2 does not equal 4!
We truely are in the end times. No, I am not joking. This stuff is just horrifying.
Wrong hand, but I get the sentiment
IIRC his last words, before being executed, were his reading of the poem Invictus, by William Earnest Henley. Hardly the actions of a man who believed his sins were the result of remote-control by other parties.
INVICTUS
William Earnest Henley, 1875"Out to the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced, nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance,
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears,
Looms but the horror of the shade.
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."
O.K. 665.5
my point was that RFID is not a good idea..
Not when it comes time to upgrade :)
Frankly, while I'm creeped out by people "enhacing" their bodies (whether via implanted silicon technology or via implanted silicone bags), I'm far less concerned from an eschatological standpoint. In short, I don't believe we're living in/on the cusp of any "End Times". That's 'cause I'm a postmillenniallist.
I'd love to be a Democrat Senator for a day...
Hey- that's very funny. :)
I can't wait till everything is on these things. Your driver's license/ID, credit cards, Check cards, ect... You just won't be able to say no to this! (no really, you will not be allowed to say no)
Pretty soon everyone will through "voluntary compliance" be require to be chipped. This way they'll be allowed to buy and sell.
Sounds familiar doesn't it?
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