Posted on 09/22/2004 5:29:43 PM PDT by johnnycap
Forgive me for this vanity post but I had an idea that I thought merited discussion. Today, while thinking about the most recent beheadings in Iraq, it occurred to me that perhaps, if we implanted all personnel, military and civilian in Iraq with a tracking device, there might only be one more kidnapping. My hope in posting this is that someone who might be in a position to consider the idea might be lurking here. Thanks for indulging me.
It is a good idea. here is the link to an article I googled. Looks like we're a ways off from getting there, but this company is thinking the same way you are. It would be so awesome to bust into al-Zarqawi's lair right as they were into their chanting and reading the Koran BS and then behead HIM right on the the internet telecast. I know it would never happen, but I am so incensed at these guys it has led me to fantasize about nailing them for the whole world to see. The GPS thing would work.
Sorry
here's the link:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993740
These devices are in the planning stages for military personnel, but no company will sell these devices for the use that you describe because of the liability potential. No civilians will ever get one of these devices without full government protection from lawsuits.
Also, a GPS tracker is going to transmit a signal, encrypted or not. Even if the enemy can't see what the signal says (PFC Snuffy, Joe - LOC 18SUU8362601432 "Mama-San's Bar, Table 4") they could locate where it eminated from with radio direction finders. I'd much rather take my chances being a sneaky SOB rather then radiating a 'tattletale' Nanny-signal for the enemy to DF.
Ahh the hell with it. Let's just do what the Russians do and round up the known family members of the terrorists, saw their heads off and post them on the internet until our citizens are released unharmed.
OHHH - HOW HORRIBLE!!!
OK...well then...let's just bomb Dresden, Hamburg, Hiroshima and Nagasaki again, packed with civilians who have as much relation with the attackers of Pearl Harbor - DNA-wise - as the people that sawed off the heads of these innocent Americans.
Either we get a perspective...or we lose.
And, if its trackable by us, its trackable by them as well (or it will be within a short period of time). We don't need to telegraph our movements.
The chips Applied Digital sells (VeriChip) is the same as the chip that's implanted in animals. Recently some Mexican Govt. officials were implanted with the VeriChip but it is only for access to secure area purposes. The chip is doemant till scanned. The VeriChip is NOT GPS capable.
"He said the chips were required to enter a new federal anti-crime information center.
"It's only for access, for security," he said.
The chips also could provide more certainty about who accessed sensitive data at any given time. In the past, the biggest security problem for Mexican law enforcement has been corruption by officials themselves.
Chips read by RFID scanners
Aceves said his company eventually hopes to provide Mexican officials with implantable devices that can track their physical location at any given time, but that technology is still under development.
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The chips that have been implanted are manufactured by VeriChip Corp., a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions Inc. of Palm Beach, Fla.
They lie dormant under the skin until read by an electromagnetic scanner, which uses a technology known as radio frequency identification, or RFID, that's now getting hot in the inventory and supply chain businesses."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5439055/
We're all going to have to have them eventually, so why waste time?
Mark of the Beast?
Simply that the VeriChip which is the chip WND refers to is not GPS capable. In other words, it can't track anything or anyone.
Why not just a transmitter in a wristwatch??? The nicer looking the watch, the better.... Even if the wearer does get it taken from him, the bad guys arent just going to throw a nice looking watch on the side of the road... they'll wear it... keep it as a trophy... Keep it till they can sell it... meanwhile, its telling the goodguys where the snakepit is...
(Happy2BMe mentioned this on another thread)
Make no mistake, the technology exists, its been proven, it was all ready to be rolled out as the next greatest thing. The chip receives power from muscular motion and can relay GPS data to receivers. And I'm not talking hand wand scanners like they use on your pet at the pound.
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