The British government is planning to begin implanting machine readable microchips under the skin of thousands of convicts to help enforce home curfews. The Independent of London reports radio frequency identification or RFID tags would be surgically inserted into the former prisoners. The spychips would contain scannable personal information about individuals, including their identities, address and criminal record. The government is also investigating how it could use satellite and radio-wave technology to monitor the released prisoners.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/15/headlines
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Spot the difference
16.01.2008 14:38
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Where is it?
16.01.2008 15:05
Paul :)
Paul T
Mad Proposal No 94: Straw Wants Prisoners Microchipped
16.01.2008 15:10
So not content with wanting to have the power to pillage our bodies after we die, the government now wants to insert foreign objects into us while we're alive. The Ministry of Justice is wanting to insert microchips under the skin of prisoners as an alternative to tags. It's exactly the sort of thing that tyrannical regimes wouldn't think twice of doing. You can be sure that if this sort of technology had been available to Hitler of Stalin, they would have used it on most of their populations.
Has this government completely lost sight of the concept of civil liberties? I totally understand that argument that if you are found guilty of a crime and are sentenced you lose your liberty. But wearing an electronic tag and having a chip inserted into your body are two very different things.
I hope that anyone who values the concept of individual freedom will be against this lunatic proposal.
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2008/01/mad-proposal-no-94-straw-wants.html
Paul T
Homepage: http://www.myspace.com/stopchemtrailsuk
Not even a feasible plan
16.01.2008 19:45
At least we can take some solace in the fact that they are incompetent fascists - I dread to think what they'd come up with if they knew what they were doing.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/14/prisoner_chipping_scheme/
Steve
Tip of the iceberg
17.01.2008 06:11
Chris
Sounds like Harrison Bergeron:
17.01.2008 10:33
Harrison Bergeron:
imdb.com/title/tt0113264/
microchips for everyone! what a great way to kontrol the masses.
Harrison Bergeron
Business opportunities
17.01.2008 15:00
...a new backstreet industry will emerge to provide a microchip removal service.
Dr X