Post by xtra on Mar 10, 2007 10:39:08 GMT -6
Big Brother and The Mark Of The Beast*
>>
>> Mar 07, 2007 8:35 AM
>>
>> *From Biometric Scanning to Microchips and the Mark of the Beast?*
>> Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Coming of Antichrist
>> By Thomas Horn
>>
>> Today I learned that Madras High School in the little town of Madras, Oregon
>> is the latest government institution to allow students to pay for their lunch
>> with the swipe of a hand.
>> Only yesterday in a related event, Chief of Police Jack Schmidig of Bergen
>> County, NJ, a member of the police force for over 30 years, received a
>> VeriChip as part of Applied Digital Solution's strategy of enlisting key
>> regional leaders to accelerate adoption of its implantable product.
>>
>> Kevin H. McLaughlin, VeriChip Corporation's CEO said of the event that
>> "High-profile regional leaders are accepting the VeriChip, representing an
>> excellent example of our approach to gaining adoption of the technology."
>>
>> The new and aggressive indoctrination program - Thought and Opinion Leaders
>> to Play Key Role in Adoption of VeriChip - is intended to create widespread
>> acceptance and exponential adaptation of the company's FDA-cleared,
>> human-implantable RFID tag.
>>
>> Earlier this year ADS provided testimony that safeguards have been
>> implemented to ensure privacy in connection with implantable microchips. ADS
>> received patent rights to Digital Angel (TM) technology on December 10, 1999.
>> What set Digital Angel apart from the competition was the innovative
>> design--a
>> miniature digital transceiver specifically created
>> for human implantation.
>>
>> According to information released last year the implantable transceiver
>> "sends and receives data and can be continuously tracked by GPS (Global
>> Positioning Satellite) technology. The transceiver's power supply and
>> actuation system are unlike anything ever created. When implanted within a
>> body, the device is powered electromechanically through the movement of
>> muscles, and it can be activated either by the 'wearer' or by the monitoring
>> facility."
>>
>> An Information Technology report recently verified plans to study
>> implantable
>> chips as a method of tracking terrorists. After first pulling back from the
>> implantable version of its Digital Angel, ADS foresees a unique use of its
>> product under the new name VeriChip in the wake of terrorist attacks in New
>> York and Washington.
>>
>> "We've changed out thinking since September 11," a company spokesman said,
>> "Now there's more of a need to monitor evil activities."
>>
>> ADS also claims the VeriChip (Digital Angel) has a variety of other uses,
>> such as "providing a tamper-proof means of identification for enhanced
>> e-business security, animal tracking, locating lost or missing individuals,
>> tracking the location of valuable property and monitoring
>> the medical conditions of at-risk patients."
>>
>> Following the Internet World Wireless 2001 award for "Best of Show: Client
>> Services," Mercedes Walton, President and COO of Applied Digital Solutions,
>> said: ``We have always had high expectations for the Digital Angel products.
>> This award is truly a validation of our faith in Digital Angel's ability to
>> capture the imagination of the public. Consumer anticipation has translated
>> into accelerated interest from potential partners and allies. We are eager to
>> bring Digital Angel to the marketplace in a very timely manner...."
>>
>> To further advocate Digital Angel technology, Applied Digital Solutions
>> launched a website www.digitalangel.net where viewers can peruse
>> diagrams and read summary information.
>>
>> Other manufacturers of sub-skin implants have quietly field-tested similar
>> devices over the past few years. The London Times reported in October 1998,
>> "Film stars and the children of millionaires are among 45 people, including
>> several Britons, who have been fitted with the chips (called the Sky Eye) in
>> secret tests."
>>
>> Due to civil liberty and privacy issues, the ACLU announced opposition to
>> mandatory microchip implantation when applied to humans. The ACLU is certain
>> to be a strange bedfellow of Christians and conservatives concerning this
>> issue.
>> THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY?
>> Many Christians believe that, before long, an antichrist system will appear.
>> It will be a New World Order, under which national boundaries dissolve, and
>> ethnic groups, ideologies, religions, and economics from around the world,
>> orchestrate a single and dominant sovereignty. The system will supposedly be
>> free of religious and political extremes, and
>> membership will tolerate the philosophical and cultural differences of its
>> constituents. Except for minor nonconformities, war, terrorism, and hunger
>> will be a thing of the past.
>> According to popular Biblical interpretation, a single personality will
>> surface at the head of the utopian administration. He will appear as a man of
>> distinguished character, but will ultimately become "a king of fierce
>> countenance" (Dan. 8:23).
>>
>> With imperious decree the Antichrist will facilitate the one-world
>> government, universal religion, and globally monitored socialism. Those who
>> refuse his New World Order will inevitably be imprisoned or destroyed, until
>> at last he exalts himself "above all that is called
>> God, or that is worshiped, so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God,
>> showing himself that he is God" (2 Thess. 2:4).
>>
>> The Antichrist's widespread power will be derived at the expense of
>> individual human liberties. He will force "all, both small and great, rich
>> and
>> poor, free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
>> foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or
>> the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him
>> that
>> hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a
>> man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six [666]" (Rev. 13:16-18).
>>
>> For many years the idea that humans could somehow succumb to little more
>> than
>> branded cattle, and that rugged individualism would thereafter be sacrificed
>> for an anesthetized universal harmony, was repudiated by America's greatest
>> minds.
>>
>> Then, in the 1970's, things began to change. Following a call by Nelson
>> Rockefeller for the creation of a "New World Order," presidential candidate
>> Jimmy Carter campaigned, saying, "We must replace balance of power politics
>> with world order politics."
>>
>> During the 1980's President George Bush continued the one-world dirge,
>> announcing over national television that "a New World Order" had arrived.
>> Following the initial broadcast, President Bush addressed the Congress,
>> saying, "What is at stake is more than one small country [Kuwait], it is a
>> big
>> idea--a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common
>> cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind: peace and security,
>> freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world worthy of our struggle, and
>> worthy of our children's future!"
>>
>> Ever since the President's astonishing newscast, a parade of political and
>> religious leaders have discharged a profusion of rhetoric aimed at
>> implementing the goals of a New World Order. Developers of biometric implant
>> chips employ similar language in announcing compatible global technologies,
>> and many Americans consider electronically marking humans or implanting a
>> series of digital equations beneath the skin to be the natural progress of
>> advancing and necessary technologies.
>>
>> IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE
>> Some people believe implantable microchips will be the Biblical Mark of the
>> Beast. These claim that acts of terrorism such as the ones in New York and
>> Washington, encourage microchipping humans for identification purposes.
>>
>> But even before the New York and Pentagon tragedies, a push was being made
>> to
>> brand and monitor humanity.
>>
>> Consider the following:
>> * As far back as 1973, Senior Scholastics introduced school age children to
>> the concept of buying and selling using numbers inserted in their forehead.
>> In
>> the September 20, 1973 feature "Who Is Watching You?" the secular high school
>> journal speculated: "All buying and selling in the program will be done by
>> computer. No currency, no change, no checks. In
>> the program, people would receive a number that had been assigned them
>> tattooed in their wrist or forehead. The number is put on by laser beam and
>> cannot be felt. The number in the body is not seen with the naked eye and is
>> as permanent as your fingerprints. All items of consumer goods will be marked
>> with a computer mark. The computer outlet in the store which picks up the
>> number on the items at the checkstand will also pick up the number in the
>> person's body and automatically total the price and deduct the amount from
>> the
>> erson's 'Special Drawing Rights' account."
>>
>> * In the 1974 article "The Specter of Eugenics," Charles Frankel pointed out
>> Linus Pauling's (Nobel Prize winner) suggestions that a mark be tattooed on
>> the foot or forehead of every young person. Pauling envisioned a mark
>> denoting
>> genotype.
>>
>> * In 1980, U.S. News and World Report continued the warning, pointing out
>> that the Federal Government was contemplating "National Identity Cards,"
>> without which nobody could work or conduct business.
>>
>> * The Denver Post Sun followed up in 1981, claiming that chip implants could
>> someday replace I.D. cards. The June 21, 1981 story read in part, "The chip
>> is
>> placed in a needle which is affixed to a simple syringe containing an
>> anti-bacterial solution. The needle is capped and ready to forever identify
>> something--or somebody."
>>
>> * The May 7, 1996 Chicago Tribune questioned the technology, wondering aloud
>> if we could trust Big Brother under our skin?
>>
>> * Then in 1997 applications for patents of subcutaneous implant devices for
>> "a person or an animal" were applied for.
>>
>> * On April 27, 1998, Time Magazine ran the story, The Big Bank Theory And
>> What It Says About The Future OF Money, in which they opined "Your daughter
>> can store the money any way she wants--on her laptop, on a debit card, even
>> (in the not too distant future) on a chip implanted under her skin."
>>
>> * In August 1998 the BBC covered the first known human microchip
>> implantation.
>> * That same month the Sunday Oregonian warned that proposed medical
>> identifiers might erode privacy rights by tracking individuals through
>> alphanumeric health identifier technologies. The startling Oregonian feature
>> depicted humans with barcodes in their foreheads.
>>
>> * Senator Robb (Virginia) felt it necessary to add the MARC
>> (multi-technology
>> automated reader card) Card Amendment to the FY97 DOD Authorization Bill.
>>
>> * One can only speculate why bionics is now attempting to create organisms
>> that contain linked organic (human cells) material with biometric chips for
>> human implantation.
>>
>> * Recently millions of Today Show viewers watched an American family get
>> "chipped" with ADS's VeriChipT live from a doctor's office in Boca Raton.
>>
>> * VeriChip recently has been solicting interest from the US Military to
>> implant all US Military forces with implantable "dogtag" VeriChips.
>>
>> * Meanwhile, terrorism has many people in the mood these days to sacrifice
>> human liberties... and Digital Angel has opened its mass production factory
>> in
>> Palm Beach, Florida.
>>
>> WILL DIGITAL "MARKS" SOON BE MANDATORY?
>> Makers of implantable microchips claim the procedure will be voluntary. But
>> a
>> report written by Elaine M. Ramish for the Franklin Pierce Law Center says:
>> "A
>> [mandatory] national identification system via microchip implants could be
>> achieved in two stages: Upon introduction as a voluntary system, the
>> microchip
>> implantation will appear to be palatable. After there is a familiarity with
>> the procedure and a knowledge of its benefits, implantation would be
>> mandatory."
>>
>> George Getz, the communications director for the Libertarian Party agrees,
>> saying: "After all, the government has never forced anyone to have a driver
>> license, [but] try getting along without one, when everyone from your local
>> banker to the car rental man to the hotel
>> operator to the grocery store requires one in order for you to take advantage
>> of their services, that amounts to a de facto mandate. If the government can
>> force you to surrender your fingerprints to get a drivers license, why can't
>> it force you to get a computer chip implant? "
>>
>> People like Mr. Getz are correct. Conservatives and liberals alike need to
>> contact state and federal representatives and demand laws preserving
>> individual rights before Digital Angel and similar forces lead humanity down
>> a
>> high-tech path of no return.
>>
>> In the same way Social Security numbers were voluntary before becoming
>> defacto-mandatory, biometric chip implants will be compulsory in the future
>> unless citizens rise up in immediate and national opposition. Even Applied
>> Digital Solution's chief executive officer Richard Sullivan envisions a
>> scenario where ``people [are] required to be chipped or
>> [have] some combination of a device requiring them to be scanned and
>> monitored
>> at all times.''
>>
>> Note what the prophet said!
>>
>> And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to
>> receive a mark (charagma; [Greek charax] meaning to stake into or "stick
>> into") in their right hand, or in their foreheads....Here is wisdom. Let him
>> that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number
>> of
>> a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six (Rev. 13:16-18) Did
>> the prophet foresee a hypodermic needle injecting something beneath
>> the skin? Sounds like it.
>>
>> A temporary victory was won against such ideas following the original news
>> story by Raiders News Update concerning ADS's implantable microchip
>> intentions
>> in 1999. News services across the web ran our story resulting in an
>> inundation
>> by concerned readers. ADS's shares droped on the Nasdaq from $5.00 to .50
>> each. ADS then released this statement: "We are not pursuing any applications
>> for embedded chips and we have moved away from that for a couple of
>> reasons....There are a number of privacy concerns and religious
>> implications -- fundamentalist Christian groups [Raiders News Update] regard
>> it [implanting computer chips] as the Devil's work."
>>
>> The reprieve didn't last long. The Palm Beach testing center's wristwatch
>> version of Digital Angel was successful and ADS announced it would "start
>> implanting them inside humans between the muscle and the skin on the forearm
>> next year."
>>
>> Then on 9-11, terrorism came along, the perfect incentive for mandating
>> everything from face scanning to implantable chips as not only inevitable,
>> but
>> perhaps simply a good idea.
>>
>> These are differences in degree, not in kind, and forecast a prediction made
>> long ago:
>> "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man
>> worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in
>> his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is
>> poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be
>> tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in
>> the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for
>> ever
>> and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his
>> image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name" (Rev. 14:9-11).
>>
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