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 RS> In passing a law that makes the proponents look like blithering idiots.


 RS> Concerns over privacy have aligned with apocalyptic Biblical prophecy in a
 RS> proposed Virginia law that limits the use of microchip implants on humans
 RS> because of a lawmaker's concern that the chips will prove to be the
 RS> Antichrist's "mark of the beast."

 RS> On Wednesday, Virginia's House of Delegates passed a bill that forbids
 RS> companies from forcing their employees to be implanted with tracking
 RS> devices, a move likely to be applauded by civil libertarians.

 RS> But Virginia state Delegate Mark Cole's reasons for proposing the law have
 RS> as much to do with the Book of Revelation as they do with concerns over
 RS> privacy in the digital age. Cole says he is concerned that the implants
 RS> will turn out to be the "mark of the beast" worn by
Satan's minions.

 RS> "My understanding -- I'm not a theologian -- but there's a
prophecy in the
 RS> Bible that says you'll have to receive a mark, or you can neither buy nor
 RS> sell things in end times," Cole said, as quoted at the Washington Post.
 RS> "Some people think these computer chips might be that mark."

 RS> http://www2.wsls.com/sls/ap_exchange/virginia_news/article/HouseOksBillBann
 RS> ingImplantedTrackingDevicesVa/80384/

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