Microchips: The New Surrogate Parents?

[Guest guest]

The 9-11 terror events have increased the national security obsession and

have initiated the talk of a national ID card in the United States.

 

We have had tragic child abductions and now there is talk of a microchip for

children.

 

Today there are many people who would take the microchip for convenience

purposes; they would prefer to have a microchip rather than carrying a purse

or a wallet.

 

The enemy will continue to use many different venues to bring into

acceptableness the Mark of the Beast. The world is continuing to be

conditioned for that day through current events.

 

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Revelation 13:16-18 (KJV)

 

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,

to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads

 

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name

of the beast, or the number of his name.

 

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the

beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred

threescore and six (666).

 

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Microchips: The New Surrogate Parents?

- Monday, July 29, 2002

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,58945,00.html

 

NEW YORK - From little ones prone to running off in crowds to big kids

hitting the road for the first time, a bunch of new devices claim to help

parents keep an " eye " on their children - even when they're not around.

 

The most controversial of these gadgets is an under-the-skin personal

location device from Applied Digital Solutions. Using Global Positioning

Satellite technology, a microchip surgically implanted in the body finds

children and notifies parents of their whereabouts.

 

ADS says the device, which is the size of a wristwatch-face and may become

even smaller, could be used to find kidnapped children, locate young kids

who wander away from parents and track teens who participate in at-risk

behavior.

 

" With an implanted device, the child doesn't have to remember to wear it. It

can't be lost or stolen or stripped away. And it's totally concealed, "

company spokesman Matthew Cossolotto said.

 

A prototype will be available later this year. In the meantime, ADS already

manufactures two similar products: VeriChip and Digital Angel.

 

Cossolotto says VeriChip ($200 plus $9.95 a month), an under-the-skin,

tamper-proof method of identifying one person against another, could help

prevent kidnappings like the one of Utah teen Elizabeth Smart.

 

" The chip would have realized that the intruder did not have permission to

enter the home and sounded the alarm, " Cossolotto said.

 

Digital Angel ($399 plus $29.95 a month) is a wearable GPS device that

indicates when a person has moved beyond certain preset boundaries. The

alerts may be sent to cell phones, computers or pagers.

 

" The chip has an alarm button and is hidden from any perpetrators, "

Cossolotto said.

 

Another up-and-coming product is Safe Force ($280), a " black box " for cars

similar to the flight data recorder used on planes that monitors drivers'

performance.

 

Safe Force, made by Calif.-based Road Safety, operates through a series of

audio warnings that sound when a driver speeds, starts hard, breaks hard, or

generally drives aggressively - and don't go away until the driver changes

his behavior.

 

" It's like being able to sit next to your teenager every time they drive, "

Road Safety CEO Larry Selditz said.

 

Safe Force will be available in November; a GPS add-on is in development.

 

GPS, however, has its limitations. Buildings can impede signals, and the

technology is only useful within 75 feet, or in the very early stages of an

abduction.

 

Nevertheless, many feel these devices are nothing short of miraculous.

 

" I've gotten over a thousand enthusiastic e-mails about Safe Force; only two

complained about Big Brother invasions of privacy, " Selditz said.

 

One famous parent, America's Most Wanted host John Walsh, whose

6-year-old son was kidnapped and killed in 1981, said GPS could be

" lifesaving " on a recent episode of Larry King Live.

 

" It's a brilliant idea. I wish someone would develop it because, number one,

time is crucial when a child is missing and you could locate them by the

chip, " he said. " And even if you weren't lucky enough to locate them,

finding the body is crucial for two things: the ending of the search of the

parents and helping with the prosecution of the case. "

 

Other parents were more skeptical.

 

California resident Gina Brodt said she'd never put anything under her

child's skin, but she might have considered using Digital Angel when her

daughter was younger.

 

" I had a little one who liked to run off in the mall, " she said. " I might

have bought it for her. "

 

Family Circle contributor Annie Pleshette Murphy said teaching kids to

police their own behavior is the key to keeping them safe.

 

" So many of these devices prey on a parent's wish to protect their child 100

percent of the time, " she said. " One of the hardest things about being a

parent is accepting that you can't do this. "

 

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