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‘Barcode everyone at birth’
BBC ^ | 5/22/12 | The Forum

Posted on 05/24/2012 6:11:15 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz

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I didn't see this anywhere. Funny how the author talks about how the military could differentiate between friend and foe or soldier and civilian and not how this would prevent voter fraud or identity theft.

Needless to say, while there are a multitude of applications where this technology would make sense, some even beneficial, it still does not address the first and foremost issue of the human race. The right to be free from government control.

Thoughts?

1 posted on 05/24/2012 6:11:27 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz
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To: EQAndyBuzz
What could possibly go wrong?

/s

2 posted on 05/24/2012 6:13:19 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Note: Whoever stole my copy of MS Office, I will track you down. You have my Word.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Mark of the Beast. BIBLICAL implications here.

You’ll have to kill me before I submit to something like this. I will never be marked.


3 posted on 05/24/2012 6:13:26 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: rarestia

Exactly what I thought!!!


4 posted on 05/24/2012 6:15:29 AM PDT by NC Angeleyes
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To: BipolarBob
What could possibly go wrong?

Database mix-ups happen all the time, systems are hacked, data isn't kept up-to-date between applications, the phone lines go down in Bangalore....

A 75 year-old man from South Dakota could suddenly be labeled a "terrorist," and could be whisked away in the middle of the night, detained in some holding cell. What rights would one have against "the system?"

6 posted on 05/24/2012 6:19:37 AM PDT by Lou L (The Senate without a filibuster is just a 100-member version of the House.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Another crazy loon.


7 posted on 05/24/2012 6:19:48 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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Elizabeth BarkingMoonBat
8 posted on 05/24/2012 6:23:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The so-called 'mainstream' media has gone from "biased" straight to "utterly surreal".)
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“If I were empress of the Universe I would insist on every individual having a unique ID permanently attached - a barcode if you will; an implanted chip to provide an easy, fast inexpensive way to identify individuals."

Another fantasy that someone has to have ultimate power over people and to subjugate them under their will. Her fantasy does not consider the wishes of the individual, or what they want. Typical fantasy of of a tyrant, both for those in power and those that are not. I imagine some narcissistic control freak in power somewhere will try this someday soon.

9 posted on 05/24/2012 6:24:45 AM PDT by GregoTX (Federalist)
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I don’t understand why a certain few people insist on as much total control of people as possible. It’s offensive and unacceptable.

My rule is this... You put something in me or my family, I get to put something in you. Guess which is going to hurt worse and be fatal?

Just because you can do something doesn’t necessarily mean you should.


10 posted on 05/24/2012 6:26:40 AM PDT by BCR #226 (02/07 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: Lou L

My response was . . . sarcasm. Hence the /s at the end. As mentioned after me, Biblical verses indicate a marking (and tracking) mechanism for each human will allow a global government to control every human on earth. No buying or selling without the mark is pretty strong medicine to induce the will of the (demonically ran) government. One would lose all earthly possessions. No job. No visible means of support. No security except knowing one did not receive the Mark. You may preserve your soul but the odds will be good you will lose your life.


11 posted on 05/24/2012 6:27:53 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Note: Whoever stole my copy of MS Office, I will track you down. You have my Word.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

she’s lucky the Book of Revelations is in the public domain...


12 posted on 05/24/2012 6:29:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rarestia
You’ll have to kill me before I submit to something like this. I will never be marked.

If you carry a credit/debit card and use it, you have already submitted. Same with your driver's license. Cross the border into Canada and they know a lot about you just from your license plate number.

If you carry a smart phone, you are even more in submission. With one of those things in your hand, they know your every move. Download a app or two and everything you do with that phone is available information.

The only difference between what you do now and a chip under your skin is the location of the information source. In your pocket or purse or under your skin, that is the only difference.

13 posted on 05/24/2012 6:30:57 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

She was JOKING.

Ryk Spoor
Thankfully, Ms. Moon’s little idea of universal barcoding turned out to be intended as a joke; she was apparently as surprised as anyone else when they chose to run with it.

(Like Elizabeth Mood, Ryk Spoor is also an SF author and he is a friend Elizabeth Moon.)


14 posted on 05/24/2012 6:49:24 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

Is every Ayn Rand book coming to life? This is straight out of ANTHEM.


15 posted on 05/24/2012 6:51:00 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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It is ridiculous but if we could have this done just for stopping kidnapping and other such stuff then I would be for it. However, it would have to be throughout the body somehow so, some would be kidnapper wouldn’t just cut off the body part with the scan. If this was possible, it would be 100 percent worth it to save people who are killed during a kidnapping or kids who are molested by strangers that take them.


16 posted on 05/24/2012 6:59:34 AM PDT by napscoordinator (VOTE FOR NEWT!!!!)
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Yes, I understood your response; I merely chose your rhetorical, although sarcastic question, and answered it. I wasn’t necessarily responding directly to you, as you seem to have a keen awareness of all the implications of such a mark.


17 posted on 05/24/2012 7:09:53 AM PDT by Lou L (The Senate without a filibuster is just a 100-member version of the House.)
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To: massgopguy

You just beat me to it...How true............


18 posted on 05/24/2012 7:12:15 AM PDT by Boonie
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...it would be 100 percent worth it to save people who are killed during a kidnapping or kids who are molested by strangers that take them.

Are you kidding, too? No, it would not be "100 percent worth it to save people who are killed during a kidnapping or kids who are molested by strangers that take them." How does a barcode prevent a crime before it happens? Even if it could do so, no, it would certainly not be worth turning us all into little robots, any more than we already are.

19 posted on 05/24/2012 7:12:28 AM PDT by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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“I would insist on every individual having a unique ID permanently attached “

We’ll just ensconce it in your fat head.


20 posted on 05/24/2012 7:17:32 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Burning the Quran is a waste of perfectly good fire.)
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