Replying to a message of George Pope to LEE LOFASO:

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

 GP> Nobody was talking about implanting people, but about people having to
 GP> 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>> Consider if it were made mandatory by government for everybody to
 LL>> have such tags.  In order to buy and to sell, one would have to have
 LL>> an RFID tag.  Otherwise, no buying or selling.  And that would mean
 LL>> starvation and death.  Of course, someone who did not have such an
 LL>> implant could always chop off the hand of somebody who had such an
 LL>> RFID tag and use the hand to buy or to sell.

 GP> Kind of a stretch, don't you think?

Not really.  The government in this country already wants to do away with 
currency and get everyone to switch to electronic transactions.  Currency
transactions are anonymous and electronic transactions aren't.  And that's why.
Implanted RFID chips would facilitate electronic transactions.  Including 
tracking of a person's location and of what a person purchases.

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

Yes.

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