Hello George,

>GP>2) Where's the unlawful part?

>BA>The Constitution basically requires a warrant before government can
>BA>search anybody - a requirement that's been eroding for decades, more
>BA>rapidly lately. If people are RFID tagged at birth - something the
>BA>government would very much like - they can be tracked all the way
>BA>through their lives into their coffins. There's really no difference
>BA>between requiring people to have RFID tags embedded in their bodies
>BA>and tattooing a number on the inside of their left forearm, and the
>BA>fact that the RFID can be read from a distance doesn't alter the
>BA>fact that doing so is no different from stopping someone on the
>BA>street and demanding "Papers, please."

GP>Yes, this is a fair argument against the GOVERNMENT requiring, by law,
GP>one to have an RFID tag, but how does it speak for or against the use of
GP>RFIDs on private property by the owners, seeking to protect themselves &
GP>their property from known threats?

Why would people want to voluntarily implant themselves with RFID tags?
It might make sense to have a pet implanted, so that if a pet is lost
it can be returned to the owner.  But people are not pets.  And people
have no owners.

Here is one scenario where RFID tags can be used for evil purposes -

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

However, the use of RFID tags would be on a much more limited basis.
Rather than have everybody be tagged, only those with proper security
clearances would be tagged.  Those who needed food and water would
have to get it from their RFID'd masters.  In that way, an entire
population can be controlled...

--Lee


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