Download a printable .pdf pamphlet of this article. The Chip The "Veri-Chip" or "Digital Angel" is a microchip implant that can hold personal, medical and other information under your skin. It can be read by an electronic scanner several feet away from your body. It may soon also include Global Positioning System (GPS) Satellite tracking capabilities so that your location can be monitored 24 hours a day. The chip is made by a company from Florida called Applied Digital Solutions (ADS). On December 19th 2001, the company unveiled the chip to the public and announced that it was seeking FDA government approval to begin marketing the chip for human use. On April 4th, 2002 it received that approval. If we all "get chipped" (as the company likes to call it) we will be much easier to keep track of and control. Of course the company says it’s for our own good. If you’ve ever had any doubts about the government or corporations -- don’t let them put a microchip in your arm. Once that’s happened, you’ll be at their mercy. The Media Blitz From February 1st through March 15th (6 weeks) there has been a huge amount of favorable corporate media coverage of the Veri-Chip. The company’s CEO calls "the amount and quality of media coverage... astounding." The Chip has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, Nickelodeon Kids’ News, The 700 Club Christian News and many many others. In the last 6 weeks there have been 30 news stories so glowing in their coverage of The Veri-Chip that ADS has put links for them up on its web page. (www.adsx.com) Fox TV’s The O’Reilly Factor called The Chip "the wave of the future." Andy Rooney said on 60 Minutes, "I wouldn’t mind having something planted permanently in my arm that would identify me." The Company told Tech TV on March 13th that 2,000 kids have already written to request that they have the chip implanted in them. The "Mark of the Beast"? Many people think of the Biblically prophesized Mark of The Beast when they hear about the Veri-Chip. Many Christians are concerned that that’s exactly what’s going on, that the chip is a sign of the end of the world. The conservative Christian daily news show The 700 Club, hosted by Pat Robertson, did a story on the Veri-Chip and discussed the Mark of The Beast issue. They decided that it couldn’t be what had been biblically prophesized because it’s going to be voluntary and it won’t involve buying and selling. According to them, "getting chipped" is just fine. Is it Really Voluntary? The makers of Veri-Chip and the media that loves it assure us that receiving the implant will be up to each of us as individuals. ADS Vice President Keith Bolton told The 700 Club that "We live in a free society. You can either elect to smoke [or not]. You can elect to have the VeriChip. So it’s a freedom of choice technology." This emphasis on the chip being voluntary is a new part of ADS’s public relations campaign, though. For example, just last December the company’s CEO, Richard Sullivan, told The Palm Beach Post that Veri-Chips could be a great alternative to green cards for tracking "foreigners." "Foreigners who pass though customs or immigration could be injected with the chip, allowing officials to monitor their activities better and keep terrorists out." Likewise, in the same article Sullivan says that in five years, he can see the chips being used in children, the elderly and prisoners. That doesn’t sound voluntary. The company’s vice president, Bolton, told the Washington Post in December that use of the chip would be voluntary, unless the law allows otherwise. What About Buying and Selling? Religious scholars who, for whatever reason, approve of the Veri-Chip say that it isn’t The Mark of The Beast because it won’t be used for buying and selling. That kind of talk is pretty new for ADS, though. CEO Richard Sullivan said in December that in five years, we could be using the Veri-Chip instead of ATM or credit cards. best weight loss method . marlboro cigarettes online Canada Pharmacy Ultimately, the biblical technicalities aren’t the only thing that’s important. The basic idea is this: if all compliant citizens promise to be compliant not just now, but forever, then anyone at any time in the future who doesn’t obey orders will be easy to identify, track and possibly exclude from society. In Starhawk’s book The Fifth Sacred Thing, for example, a futuristic totalitarian government releases genetically engineered diseases into the air supply. In order to survive, everyone must receive regular vaccinations. Anyone who questions orders is simply denied their next vaccination and is unable to survive. Does this seem like a relevant story in connection to the Veri-Chip? I think so. Rulers Can't Be Trusted When thinking about all of this, consider the following facts: --The US Government once planned to kill US civilians as an excuse to invade another country. (ABC News, May 1st 2001) The plan, called Operation Northwoods, was presented to the Kennedy administration in 1962, signed by the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, and asked for permission to detonate explosives in US cities, blow up a space shuttle with John G John Glenn in it, and blame it all on Cuba in order to whip up US public support for an invasion. (to read the original story, do an internet search for "ABC Northwoods") -- The US Government killed more than 11,000 of its own citizens and altered the magnetic fields of the earth forever with hundreds of above-ground nuclear tests in the 50’s and 60’s. (NY Times March 1st 2002) -- 34 states have already (3/20/02) introduced "Emergency Health Powers" legislation that would allow state governments to declare a "public health emergency" under incredibly broad standards, begin quarantining large numbers of people and administer mandatory vaccinations. (see Association of American Physicians and Surgeons www.aapsonline.org or go to www.law.com and search "Emergency Health Powers.") This one of many appalling power grabs made easier since September 11th. - In the last six months, the US government has secretly sent dozens of people to countries where they are tortured for information. (Washington Post March 11th 2002) Those people are all supposed to have been connected to "terrorism," but then so have ice-cream makers "Ben and Jerry’s" (in a US House of Representatives Subcommittee Hearing on Eco-Terrorism, February 12th 2002.) Example after example after example can be found of every government, especially here in the "land of the free/home of the brave," using lies, torture, murder and black-mail to increase their control over the people at large. Don’t let them put a chip in you. Say NO to the implant. .