All you that would agree to chip the population are sick fucks! So tell me guy, when all six of your family members had crimes perpetrated against them, did you scan the perp? Take a picture of them? Ask for a copy of their already existing state issued ID? What in the world makes you think having everyone chipped makes *ANYONE* any safer let alone *PREVENT* anything? (Lets forget for the sake of argument the logistics of chipping 295,734,134 people, and installing enough readers to make such a system end somewhat effective) In a chipped world you'll still be a victim (hey! what a great way to identify your body!) with no more information about the perp than you've had in the past. Why? Crooks are going to replace, remove, or destroy their chip! For the rest of us anonymity will be gone. Soon to follow will be anonymous speech and political protest for fear of being marked on some list or database. Papers? Papers? Don't need 'em anymore. When they come to get you for your [race|religion|political beliefs|genetic profile|over due library book], they'll know *right* where to find you. The guy who car jacked you and raped your wife? Who knows. These things happen.
It's attitudes like these that are sending this country into the toilet. Over 500,000 American solders died in WWI and WWII defending FREEDOM for this country. Those that would give up those rights so that can *FEEL* safer SHIT on the graves of each and every one of those that fell. All of you should be ashamed for so nonchalantly dismissing the ultimate sacrifices of so many young Americans.
You are naive for believing that mass monitoring would lead to a safer America. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely! You are condoning the same soviet style tactics the right has been using to frighten us since the 50's. Phone taps (up 85% since 9/11) without warrants, searches on the subway, video cameras everywhere (ok, those *do* make us safer, but what about cameras in the home proposed this week in Texas?), databases on everyone. Now a govt request for RFID readable at a distance with the intended application of monitoring American citizens? Are you NUTS!? We're being watched and our actions are being logged (cell phones, credit cards, rental cars, and soon RFID) all day, every day as it is now. Who is watching the watchers? Without oversight and laws to protect us from abuse we're setting ourselves up for a BIG hurt. Why haven't any of us learned from those we loathe throughout recent history? Nazi Germany, Cold war Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba. Our leadership is heading us there and were next. There *ARE* things we should fear in this country, but they are not the bogey men we have been sold. It is stolen elections, unchecked power, secret government agendas, secret torture camps and never ending wars. As has been mentioned in this thread, we're honest and law abiding citizens. *WE* are NOT the problem. Why the need for all the draconian measures? The real question we should be asking is, what are *THEY* afraid of?
"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tsu (6th century B.C.)
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Spec @ Feb 25th 2006 12:44AM
All you that would agree to chip the population are sick fucks! So tell me guy, when all six of your family members had crimes perpetrated against them, did you scan the perp? Take a picture of them? Ask for a copy of their already existing state issued ID? What in the world makes you think having everyone chipped makes *ANYONE* any safer let alone *PREVENT* anything? (Lets forget for the sake of argument the logistics of chipping 295,734,134 people, and installing enough readers to make such a system end somewhat effective) In a chipped world you'll still be a victim (hey! what a great way to identify your body!) with no more information about the perp than you've had in the past. Why? Crooks are going to replace, remove, or destroy their chip! For the rest of us anonymity will be gone. Soon to follow will be anonymous speech and political protest for fear of being marked on some list or database. Papers? Papers? Don't need 'em anymore. When they come to get you for your [race|religion|political beliefs|genetic profile|over due library book], they'll know *right* where to find you. The guy who car jacked you and raped your wife? Who knows. These things happen.
It's attitudes like these that are sending this country into the toilet. Over 500,000 American solders died in WWI and WWII defending FREEDOM for this country. Those that would give up those rights so that can *FEEL* safer SHIT on the graves of each and every one of those that fell. All of you should be ashamed for so nonchalantly dismissing the ultimate sacrifices of so many young Americans.
You are naive for believing that mass monitoring would lead to a safer America. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely! You are condoning the same soviet style tactics the right has been using to frighten us since the 50's. Phone taps (up 85% since 9/11) without warrants, searches on the subway, video cameras everywhere (ok, those *do* make us safer, but what about cameras in the home proposed this week in Texas?), databases on everyone. Now a govt request for RFID readable at a distance with the intended application of monitoring American citizens? Are you NUTS!? We're being watched and our actions are being logged (cell phones, credit cards, rental cars, and soon RFID) all day, every day as it is now. Who is watching the watchers? Without oversight and laws to protect us from abuse we're setting ourselves up for a BIG hurt. Why haven't any of us learned from those we loathe throughout recent history? Nazi Germany, Cold war Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba. Our leadership is heading us there and were next. There *ARE* things we should fear in this country, but they are not the bogey men we have been sold. It is stolen elections, unchecked power, secret government agendas, secret torture camps and never ending wars. As has been mentioned in this thread, we're honest and law abiding citizens. *WE* are NOT the problem. Why the need for all the draconian measures? The real question we should be asking is, what are *THEY* afraid of?
"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tsu (6th century B.C.)