Human Microchips Seen As 'Device Of Antichrist' By Some In Virginia House

washingtonpost.com:

The House of Delegates is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bill that would protect Virginians from attempts by employers or insurance companies to implant microchips in their bodies against their will.

It might also save humanity from the antichrist, some supporters think.

Del. Mark L. Cole (R-Fredericksburg), the bill's sponsor, said that privacy issues are the chief concern behind his attempt to criminalize the involuntary implantation of microchips. But he also said he shared concerns that the devices could someday be used as the "mark of the beast" described in the Book of Revelation.

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Comments

[beckie-D]

11:43 AM on 02/18/2010

This Microchipping should be a reason for concern for everyone,when This government tries to FORCE anything on a Free society. Christians have their beliefs and Atheists to.Lets not bash each other but understand that it is a Total attempt at a takeover of more power by this Administration.VA. is just exercising its 10th amendment rights.

[TaiTai]

11:54 PM on 02/13/2010

I, for one, am just happy to see that Virginia has solved their budget crisis and all of their other problems, and now have the time to focus on apocalyptic nightmare scenario legislation.

[Tazirai]

03:00 PM on 02/12/2010

Ohhh be scared ya'll it's the Anti christ...

Question.. if Modern humans have been around for roughly 200,000 years, where was G0d and the Antichrist for the first 198,000?

[deepsouthfugee]

03:04 AM on 02/12/2010

Yeah, because if there actually is an "Antichrist," this is going to stop them.

Just to be safe, though, don't let Sarah Palin talk you into implanting anything in your body. I don't care how much she winks at ya.

[MikeDu]

12:36 AM on 02/12/2010

This science fiction computer chip menace. Should we rank this along side George Bush Junior's warning during one of his State of the Union addresses against the threat of man-beast hybrids? Gotta watch out for them chip-emplanting centaurs.

[gnomic]

09:11 PM on 02/11/2010

VA elects a lot of really, really stoopid people: Cantor, Mcdonald, Allen to name a few. It's so embarrassing

[morgan1]

08:50 PM on 02/11/2010

I am really bothered that anyone would agree with the implementation of this device for tracking--Medical or otherwise. As we are being more and more controlled in movement, emotions (Through over medication)m thought control (commercials to spend, spend, spend), the implications of an implant are mind-boggling beyond V (for Vendetta) or 1984--This chip will have the capacity to monitor spending habits, traveling and cutting off financial access to accounts. You will not be able to find work, buy food, or shelter if you get "on the list" as a dissident, subversive, activist. (Look at the mess with the No Fly TSA debacle. Ted Kennedy was on it and couldn't get off until the WH intervened. Think about all the regular people on it who can't get off and don't know why they are on it). It's about CONTROL on every aspect of our lives and it is done by degrees until we wake and find ourselves in a total police state similar (Or worse) than Nazi Germany, Russia under Stalin, Chile under Pinochet. Do not go like sheep to the slaughter willingly.

[luckyone77]

09:12 PM on 02/11/2010

Prophecy also indicates that a great many will be decieved and accept the mark anyway. Judging by many of the posters comments here, that also seems plausible.

[Cryostatic]

08:53 AM on 02/12/2010

Sounds like it's time for you to cancel your cellphone and credit/debit cards, stop surfing the web, disassociate yourself from anything requiring your SSN, and start living off-grid.

Also, don't forget to buy some guns.

[luckyone77]

08:44 PM on 02/11/2010

Internet search of industry websites turned up the following:

FDA approved the use of the microchip for human use, despite numerous studies showing as much as 10% incidence of cancerous tumors forming around the implants in laboratory rats. Within months after FDA approval, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson who was overseeing the FDA at the time of its approval stepped down from his post and went to work on the board of directors for Verichip. Numerous applications have been developed already for these chips, including GPS tracking devices and mind control technology, in addition to replacing credit/debit cards and even cash, storing medical file information, workplace ID, or other applications. The chips are not simple to remove because they can migrate deep under the skin. If you are implanted, you have know way of knowing what applications are being attached to you, nor are you likely to retain control over your own finances if they can be deprogrammed or deleted that simply.

The prophecy in Revelations reads And he caused everyone to receive the mark, such that no one could buy or sell without it.

[rigveda]

08:30 PM on 02/11/2010

I am a commited atheist...but I do kind of agree that human microchips are the work of the anti-christ.

[BadPlasmid]

06:30 PM on 02/11/2010

lol.

OK, I certainly have no problem trying to ban such things due to privacy concerns and stuff like that, but the Antichrist? Really?

Man, zealots never fail to amaze me.

[ej2pi]

04:19 PM on 02/11/2010

My favorite part is about "the importance of being vigilant against an antichrist"... As if we're really going to do something about it anyway! Maybe we can have an amber alert, or something like that...

[Skeetshooter]

03:57 PM on 02/11/2010

Great! Where can I get my antiChrist chip? It seems like surefire insurance against being raptured up against my will and bored for all eternity by vacuous nitwits.

[DavidShort]

03:26 PM on 02/11/2010

My last post didn't make it past the moderators, so I will only add this: Watch the movies Gattaca, Freejack, and Demolition Man. I understand these are just movies, but are they really that far fetched? While these are not based on anything in fact, but the theory and possibility is there.

This legislation, while ending at the right conclusion (the negation of forced chipping), the path they took was an absurd one.

Look up the IR technology and the issues surrounding it, like theft of information and the possible intended uses.

[TaiTai]

11:04 PM on 02/13/2010

I agree with you.... I'm against doing anything to any law abiding citizen against their will. But shouldn't we be focusing on more pressing matters? Jobs... Economy... HCR...

Jeezus e'fing christ... Maybe they could dabble in apocalyptic nightmare scenario legislation AFTER the recession is over.

[Tulka2]

03:23 PM on 02/11/2010

Thirty or forty years ago, Jacque Coustou, the French inventor of the aqualung and oceanographer, said in an interview that he most fervently hoped for this invention. He was too many times almost lost. When the interviewer remarked that some might find such a thing a terrible, dystopian, "big brother" invention, Coustou remarked that it would not be criminals who would want it. I remember thinking, "He has more faith in government than i do".

[NoMercy]

05:24 PM on 02/11/2010

I'm not afraid of government. I am however afraid of people with power over me who only view me in terms of my profit potential. Thieves look at me on the street and do the same thing.

[Tulka2]

08:50 PM on 02/11/2010

Excellent point.

[Aaron Peeples]

12:51 PM on 02/11/2010

At what point does religion even have to enter into this? How does it get that far? I don't want anyone implanting me with anything, microchip or otherwise, without my permission. You don't have to be a religious nut to be against that, so why go that far?

What I find weird is that they're just now voting on whether or not to criminalize involuntary implantation of microchips. I didn't know that wasn't already a crime. All this time, I could have been working on my cyborg-slave out in the open.