Originally posted by testingatheory
Im not saying I believe persay the whole Beast Prophecy in bible but wouldn't it be a waste of time trying to implement something so obvious as the
RFID chip if half the worlds population ( Christians ) knew of it and would reject it ?
I'd bet that a pertty big precentage of so-called Christians would take the mark, card, chip, whatever, simply because it will be rationalized as "
for our saftey" by the "conservative Christain government". But then a gain, a lot of self proclaimed so-called Christians have never read these
prophecies for them selves, they have just heard bits and peices here and there.
If the evil one is so clever then wouldn't he surely come up with something more henious and less obvious ? and I thought it had to be voluntarily
accepted by the recipient so perhaps forcibly making people take the chip would also invalidate this choice aspect ?.
The only people who the government would be worried about not taking the mark are real Christans because they might know what the mark is and what it
means. According to bible prophesy, if you dont have the mark you cant buy, sell or trade. Think about the implications of that. If you happen to own
anything that hasent been "scanned" into the data base and you dont have a job because you need a mark to be employed(tradeing labour for money)
then it might appear that what you own was stolen. Stealing, according to more recent(and I believe more to come) executive orders, might be constued
as an act of terror, and you would be hunted down and imprisioned or killed. Again the, most likley group of people this could happen to are
Christians.
In this fashion Christains could be "removed" from the population. This is in accordance with the "Christians being persecuted for their faith"
part of the prophesy.
Maybe these cards are not the mark and maybe they are voluntary, but this is "the slippery slope" that will lead to the mark and it being manditory,
or at least manditory if you want to buy, sell or trade with out being considerd a terrorist.
I really don't care if this RFID plans seems to line up with a story from the Bible or not. I'm not scared of the Bible of prohpecies of persecuted
Christians.
People keep talking about the "implant in the hand" there is no plan to implant RFID's into people hands. There is a plan to implant them into ALL
passports and one state will start using it in their drivers license and ID's card and others may soon follow.
I can see the concern for privacy issue and definitely the tracking concerns. Americans should be free to move about in public without any passive
tracking taking place ... unless there is some sort of investigation and search warrant issued by the court that would allow them to track someone.
As far as the security claims as to the RFID chip transmitting all your personal data and someone buying a scanner and being able to download it. I'm
assuming that the RFID chips in passports and ID are only going to contain an ID # or unique SERIAL # that is transmitted and that # can be used to
look up the information in a secure database (same database's we already have that contain our DL and criminal histories.
Also RFID chips have no batteries and therefore don't have any power needed to "transmit" their data ... so they can only be read at a distance of
5-10 feet. That means it would be next to impossible to set up a passive scanning system on the local streets/highways to track our movements. But it
is plausible that such systems could be setup at airports and local malls or other places where you pass at a slow enough rate for the data to be
captured.
For me that is the only concern ... that this enhancement be used to make ID's more secure and not the create a massive database of citizen movement
that can be accessed without any probable cause or search warrant requirements. I'm on the fence on this issue ... I can see the benefits of the
upgrades. While I'm not fearful of goverment misuse I don't think it hurts to be mindful of the potential for misuse and to make sure to federal
government remembers our consitutional rights as it applies to unreasonable search and seizure.