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

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

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

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


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