Please Read:
A fellow blogger has this up on his website and I just had to share with all of you. It is important that you understand what's happening in our world so you can make better voting choices and know your rights. Be aware, people. This is our future.
Parents of elementary and middle school students in a small California town are protesting a tracking program their school recently launched, which requires students to wear identification badges embedded with radio frequency, or RFID, chips.School superintendents struck a deal with a local maker of the technology last year to test the system to track attendance and weed out trespassers.Dawn and Mike Cantrall's daughter, a seventh-grader at Brittan Elementary School, poses at her Sutter, Calif., home, wearing the Radio Frequency Identification tag that the school asked her to wear. The Cantralls have filed a formal complaint against the school board, protesting the tag. The elementary school in this tiny rural school district has become an unlikely pioneer on the technology frontier by agreeing to test student I.D. cards designed to automatically take attendance.The badges use the same Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology that has been used to track livestock and store inventory _ and have outraged some parents with privacy concerns who say they were never consulted.But students and parents, who weren't told about the RFID chips until they complained, are upset over what they say are surreptitious tactics the school used to implement the program. They also question the ethics of a monetary deal the school made with the company to test and promote its product, using students as guinea pigs."This is not right for our kids," said Michele Tatro, whose daughter received a badge. "I'm not willing for anybody to track me and I don't think my children should be tracked, either." -- See the full story at
Wired.com(fellow blogger comments)
Isn't it amazing how these stories are just popping up all over the place? The government is trying to force us to accept new technology which is diguised as something other than what it is intended for down the line. Sure, this would be a great way to keep track of kids (so would...ahem...a teacher's eyes) but it's also a great way to get kids used to such technology from an early age so when they reach adulthood they will not freak out when they are asked to receive a chip implant for other purposes. Those purposes will also be disguised for something other than what they are. We will be told they are for a cashless society, on-demand medical records, driver's license elimination, elimination of illegal immigrants, but in truth they would be the government's ideal way to keep track of us all and keep us under its thumb. The plans are being drawn up as we speak, the technology is available, but it will not be forced down upon as immediately. The government will first attempt to get us used to such things first. I'm just thankful these parents were watchful, responsible adults. And they're not going to stop at just getting their childrens' school to ban such things -- they're taking the issue as far as it can possibly go, in order to raise awareness and ban all such technology in the future. I don't think it will do much good -- it's going to happen whether we like it or not -- but there's no harm in trying.
http://repentant.modblog.com/
