----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Jane Wynn <jnw...@verizon.net> To: hrabb...@yahoo.com Sent: Thu, April 1, 2010 3:13:55 PM Subject: [Pagans_are_Conservatives_too] Fwd: Papers, please dupont phil FDA approves VeriChip for humans Not that it will come as a surprise to anyone, but yesterday the FDA approved VeriChip to be marketed for medical purposes. Applied Digital Solutions has created an implantable computer chip to "speed vital information about a patient's medical history to doctors and hospitals." It is simultaneously being heralded as a medical milestone by some and an invasion of privacy by others. Just think of it as an invisible barcode to release information when passed over by specialized scanners. Click here to read the article. This ought to go nicely with your biometric workers card... ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -- Ready for Your Biometric Social Security Card? FromTime Magazine: > >Could a national identity card help resolve the heated immigration- reform >divide? >Two Senators, New York Democrat Chuck Schumer and South Carolina Republican >Lindsey Graham, certainly seem to think so. They recently presented an >immigration- bill blueprint to President Barack Obama that includes a proposal >to issue a biometric ID card — one that would contain physical data such as >fingerprints or retinal scans — to all working Americans. We've seen this attempt before. Again, the argument by Graham and Schumer is full of holes and danger as Timepoints out. > >The sheer scale of the project is a potential problem, in terms of time, >money and technology. The premise of using a biometric employment card (which >would most likely contain fingerprint data) to stop illegal immigrants from >working requires that all 150 million–plus American workers, not just >immigrants, have one. Michael Cherry, president of identification- technology >company Cherry Biometrics, says the accuracy of such large-scale biometric >measuring hasn't been proved. "What study have we done?" he says. >"We just have a few assumptions." Furthermore, a biometric card possesses too many opportunities for abuse by clever criminals and most of all, the government itself. > >Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information >Center, believes that keeping biometric information out of a centralized >database is "the biggest challenge." Otherwise, she says, the >prospect of having millions of fingerprints on hand would be too tempting for >the government not to abuse. In their op-ed, the Senators said the information >would be stored only on the card. >Although the card is being presented as existing solely for determining >employment eligibility, "it will be almost impossible to say that this >wealth of information is there, but you can only use it for this purpose," >Coney says. "Privacy is pretty much hinged on the notion that if you >collect data for one purpose, you can't use it for another." Calabrese >expresses worries that this ID will become a "central identity >document" that one will need in order to travel, vote or perhaps own a >gun, which Melmed calls "mission creep." As C4L President, John Tate said "This is exactly the type of battle that often decides whether a country remains free, or continues down a slide toward tyranny." That’s why it’s vital you sign the petitions to your Congressman and Senators IMMEDIATELY. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Nate Hallman <natehallman@ gmail.com> wrote: yeah that's great but the story said it was in his "legislation" not some stupid story on google. in th shadow of this lying cheating communist regime please only give me the facts and let me decide > >> >> >> >Google found 45 stories on this topic over the past >few days. Here are the first three, in no particular order: > > >http://news. cnet.com/ 8301-13578_ 3-20000758- 38.html > >http://www.time. com/time/ nation/article/ 0,8599,1974927, 00.html?xid= >rss-topstories > >http://www.sacbee. com/2010/ 03/29/2640485/ can-immigration- elbow-its- >way.html > > >You’re right – this DOES sound so ridiculous it must >be just spam! It seems the strangest schemes from the world of >fiction are nothing compared to the reality being inflicted upon us. >Please, can anybody help me find the United States of America I grew up in? > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
