Posted on 06/04/2006 11:17:39 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A Florida company wants to implant its Radio Frequency Identification tags in immigrants and guest workers so they can be identified at the workplace.
Scott Silverman, chairman of the Delray Beach-based VeriChip Corporation, said in a "Fox & Friends” TV interview that its RFID implant could be used to register workers at the border, and then verify their identities on the job.
Illegal immigrants could then be readily distinguished from those who registered.
Silverman said: "We have talked to many people in Washington about using it.”
The VeriChip RFID tag is about the size of a large grain of rice and can be injected directly into the body. An antenna in the chip sends data, according to the Web site Technovelgy.com.
The chip doesn’t require a battery and has a virtually unlimited lifespan. RFID tags have been used to identify livestock, laboratory animals and pets, but privacy advocates have expressed concerns about the technology being used in human beings.
VeriChips are legal for implantation in people in the U.S., although a bill now under consideration in the Wisconsin legislature would ban mandatory implantation of the chips.
PING!
As much as I want to see all the illegals deported I do not think chipping human beings is a viable or desirable solution.
Why not just tatoo their ID number on their wrist, eh, Silverman?
Wasnt there a post just in the last few days that indicated that some court had decided that people cannot be implanted with these chips against their will?
Maybe it is this old timers disease.
Yeah, this will really work. Put down the pipe.
My thoughts exactly. Or perhaps an embroidered accessory.
Geez, it just gets worse. Illegals are easily recognized, it's just Washington doesn't want to do anything with them.
There shall be affixed upon them a mark ....
It's quite viable (at least until some underground organization gets ahold of it and starts injecting phony chips). However, it is quite undesirable, since any cop or nosey nate with a scanner can determine who somebody is without asking first. Plus, I always get this humans-being-treated-as-livestock feeling from such measures.
What a totally uninformed statement. You do realize that around half of all illegal are from places like Europe, Canada, Asia, etc. Most of these came here legally and overstayed their visas. I bet you couldn't pick them out of a crowd.
Based on your comment, you seem to think that the only illegals in this country have brown skin and perhaps speak Spanish.
That would be even easier for them to copy than the phoney ID's they're cranking out now. You seem to have missed the main purpose of them.
Finger-print or retinal reader would serve fine for ID purposes. "Chipping" any one in this country is a nose under the tent that I would hope I never see.
A ba-a-a-a-ad idea for the sheeple, to be sure.
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"Yeah, this will really work. Put down the pipe."
LOL!
When those immigrants and/or guest workers follow all the rules etc., and down the line become US citizens, there'll be a host of legal citizens with chips implanted not just immigrants.
"Finger-print or retinal reader would serve fine for ID purposes. "Chipping" any one in this country is a nose under the tent that I would hope I never see."
That's what I used to think. But some freeper claimed that the Social Security number can easily be utilized to yield a quick, surefire ID---if the government just put together some relatively simple software for this purpose.
Upon reflection, this almost has to be correct. Really, there are only so many Social Security numbers, and they are either held by children, retired people who don't work, or workers. A good database would allow each number to be checked quickly for veracity.
The whole notion that "we don't know if they are illegals" is an elaborate sham created by the government itself to support the current system of illegal immigrant labor.
Those retards don't even have my correct year of birth. I'm half-tempted to file for retirement benefits at 31. Of course I wouldn't break the law but it's tempting me.
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