A Pennsylvania Lawmaker has joined a growing movement of representatives
in seeking to outlaw identification implants in humans.
According to a recent press
release on her website, State Rep. Babette Josephs,
D-Phila., has introduced legislation that would make it illegal
to implant any identification device on or under a person's skin
that would contain and transmit personal information.
The bill (H.B.
2374) passed through the House State Government Committee
last month and has now moved to the full House for consideration.
The legislation calls for a civil penalty of up
to $10,000 for any outside party, including government agencies,
accessing personal information, such as driver's license, Social
Security or state identification number from any implanted devices.
Josephs commented that implanted devices, though
perhaps the most intrusive of surveillance devices are just one
part of an overall larger move towards a surveillance society.
She has also warned that medical research has linked
the devices to the development of tumors.
Josephs follows the trail blazing actions of Governor
Jim Doyle of Wisconsin who signed a law in 2006 declaring
it a crime to require an individual to be implanted with a microchip.
The people of Wisconsin welcomed the RFID law which imposes fine
of up to $10,000 per day for a violator. The Bill was introduced
by Rep. Marlin Schneider, D-Wisconsin.
North
Dakota, Nebraska and California
have also passed laws preventing chipping without consent.
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Implantable identification technology has been in existence
for over a decade now and discussions on ID chipping of humans
arise regularly.
During the the confirmation hearings for John Roberts Jr., George
W. Bush's nominee for Supreme Court chief justice, Roberts was
questioned by Senator (and now vice president elect)
Joseph R. Biden on whether he would rule against a mandatory implantable
microchip to track American citizens, warning that he would have
to address the issue during his tenure:
Last year there was a congressional debate on whether airport
workers could be mandated to have microchip implants.
Other workers have already been forced to take the chip.
Government
workers in Mexico are being forced to take the chip
or lose their job. Staff of Mexico's attorney general had to take
the chip in order to access secure areas.
In February, a Cincinnati
surveillance equipment company became the first U.S.
business to use this application when a handful of employees voluntarily
got implants to allow them to enter secure rooms.
A spotlight was placed on chip implants last year by the London
Times which ran a piece asking whether children should
be implanted in the wake of the kidnapping of British toddler
Madeleine McCann.
Debate also exists on the chipping on inmates, sex offenders
and other vilified groups.
Another area in which the debate over chips rages is the medical
profession. Last year, leaked British
policy review documents revealed that the government
has considered the notion of implanting anyone considered mentally
unstable with a microchip.
We have also previously highlighted how implantable chips are
being used for recreational purposes, to pay
for drinks in bars. The Baja
Beach club in Barcelona has championed the technology
for years. Leading sports figures now carry chips in their clothing
to track their performances, implantation has already been debated
as the next step.
All manner of things from commerce to transport could one day
forge the way towards a microchipped society.
We have also previously reported on proposed Google
type brain implant chips that would "improve
human memory", an idea which mirrors already active projects
funded by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Last year award winning director Aaron
Russo, appearing on the Alex Jones show, stressed
that the true intentions of the global elite, in particular the
Rockefeller family, is a microchipped society. A society where
you have no privacy, nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, whether
you’re innocent, guilty, indifferent or impaired.
A microchipped society sounds like something from a horrific
science fiction movie, as ever fiction is being mirrored by reality
as we now see it being debated on Capitol Hill.
The Age in Australia reported that within ten years the chip
will be as common
as cell phones are today. If the scheme became commonplace
then it is estimated that around 75%
of the population would be mandated to take the chips.
By pure coincidence (ahem) IBM, the company behind Verichip,
the major retailer of implantable chips, also ran
the cataloging system used by the Nazis to store
information on Jews in Hitler's Germany.
Furthermore, studies dating back to the mid 90's have shown that
implants can
induce cancer malignant tumors in some lab mice and
rats. Keith Johnson, retired toxicology pathologist from Dow Chemical,
stated in an interview with the AP that his findings proved "The
transponders were the cause of the tumors."
Such
revelations were one cause of a steep decline in
the stock price of implant devices in 2008.
To understand just how easily a microchipped society could quickly
become reality, read this excellent
piece from 2006 by Kevin Haggerty of the Toronto
Star.
A Pennsylvania Lawmaker has joined a growing movement of representatives
in seeking to outlaw identification implants in humans.
