On (18 Oct 06) LEE LOFASO wrote to GEORGE POPE...
 LL> GP>Yes, this is a fair argument against the GOVERNMENT requiring, by
 LL> law,
 LL> GP>one to have an RFID tag, but how does it speak for or against the
 LL> use of
 LL> GP>RFIDs on private property by the owners, seeking to protect
 LL> themselves &
 LL> GP>their property from known threats?
 LL>
 LL> Why would people want to voluntarily implant themselves with RFID
 LL> tags?
 LL> It might make sense to have a pet implanted, so that if a pet is lost
 LL> it can be returned to the owner.  But people are not pets.  And people
 LL> have no owners.

Nobody was talking about implanting people, but about people having to
carry an RFID-tagged card or something when in an airport. . .

 LL> Here is one scenario where RFID tags can be used for evil purposes -
 LL>
 LL> Consider if it were made mandatory by government for everybody to have
 LL> such tags.  In order to buy and to sell, one would have to have an
 LL> RFID
 LL> tag.  Otherwise, no buying or selling.  And that would mean starvation
 LL> and death.  Of course, someone who did not have such an implant could
 LL> always chop off the hand of somebody who had such an RFID tag and use
 LL> the hand to buy or to sell.

Kind of a stretch, don't you think?
Do you suppose the government, with the widespread forewarning from
Revelations, could get away with requiring such without being marked as
"the Beast" and hunted unmercifully to death by every religious
whacko &
some?

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))

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