Replying to a message of George Pope to Bob Ackley:

 LL>>>> Here is one scenario where RFID tags can be used for
evil purposes
 LL>>>> - Consider if it were made mandatory by government for everybody
 LL>>>> to have such tags.  In order to buy and to sell, one
would have to
 LL>>>> have an RFID tag.  Otherwise, no buying or selling.  And that
 LL>>>> would mean starvation and death.  Of course, someone who did not
 LL>>>> have such an implant could always chop off the hand of somebody
 LL>>>> who had such an RFID tag and use the hand to buy or to sell.
 BA>> 
 GP>>> Kind of a stretch, don't you think?
 BA>> 
 BA>> Not really.  The government in this country already wants to do away
 BA>> with currency and get everyone to switch to electronic transactions. 
 BA>> Currency transactions are anonymous and electronic transactions
 BA>> aren't.  And that's Implanted RFID chips would facilitate electronic
 BA>> transactions.  Including tracking of a person's location and of what
 BA>> a person purchases.

 GP> The airport authorities merely want to have passengers(especially
 GP> international) wear a bracelet -- how does that fit into your fear
 GP> scenario above?

Camel's nose in the tent.  It's not a long step from using a voluntary bracelet
system (or voluntary ID card system) to a mandatory RFID chip system.  Once
people are conditioned to either of the former, acceptance of the latter becomes
much easier.

 GP>>> Do you suppose the government, with the widespread forewarning from
 GP>>> Revelations, could get away with requiring such without being
 GP>>> marked as "the Beast" and hunted unmercifully to
death by every
 GP>>> religious whacko & some?
 BA>> 
 BA>> Yes.

 GP> How so?
 GP> The people are clearly aware of such forewarning, and religious
 GP> superstition/hysteria reigns supreme. . .

"National Security" demands it.

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