[Mulder]

``The line in the sand that we draw is that the use of the VeriChip would always be voluntarily,'' said Keith Bolton, chief technology officer and a vice president at Applied Digital. ``We would never provide it to a company that intended to coerce people to use it.''

Is this going to be "voluntary" the same way income taxes are?

He's right, however, about it being a "line in the sand", but in a very different way from what he is referring to.

[Terriergal]

``We would never provide it to a company that intended to coerce people to use it.''

You mean like the Government??

Is this going to be "voluntary" the same way income taxes are?

No doubt.