From today's New York Times:
INTERNAL G.P.S. First, tracking devices were installed in cars so they could be found if stolen. Then, pet owners began putting chips in their dogs and cats. Now it’s human beings who are being “chipped.” An epidemic of kidnappings has led wealthy and even middle-class Mexicans to pay $4,000 to have tiny transmitters implanted that can pinpoint their location by satellite.
Chipping people has already begun in the United States, where VeriChip has inserted chips in 200 Alzheimer’s patients for a pilot program. Future Big Brother applications are not hard to imagine, like chipping prisoners, the mentally ill and teenagers who lie about where they’re really spending Friday night.
In Dios Mio!
This is END GAME bible prophecy. Don't submit to it when it is forced upon us. Wake up people of the world!
ReplyDeleteI would actually like to get my kids chipped. Just while they're young, so they can be tracked if necessary. Once they hit 18 though (or 16 more likely), they are free to no longer be tracked. I'm not a crazy, helicopter parent (a parent who hovers and just won't let go of the child), but I think that I would support the tracking and chipping of minor children.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens when the kidnappers develop a chip tracking device and hten perfprm whatever task necessary for removing it, as is sure to happen. And, Kara, that's not very libertarian of you!
ReplyDeleteWhile it may not be libertarian, we're talking about my kids! If the chip would keep them safe, I'd be all for it.
ReplyDeletehave any of you considered that a "chip" in your kid could be a creepy uncle or neighbor, i mean have you ever met or heard of a "chip" and not thought he was a creep. maybe we should call it a "tracking device" and let chip stay on the registered sex offender list with a "chip".
ReplyDeleteany its awfully boring here at work today. as you can tell