Test Marketing the Mark of the
Beast
By Thomas Horn
RNU News Sr. Reporter
A prototype of an implantable
biometric chip capable of marking an individual's precise location
and of monitoring him or her for life is gaining support. It
was named Best in Show of 170 International Science Exhibitors
last year, and released in its "First Phase" wristwatch
format called Guardian Angel soon after. Most recently
millions of Today Show viewers watched an American family get
"chipped" with ADS's VeriChip™ live from a doctor's
office in Boca Raton. Recent acts of terrorism have many calling
for mandatory implementation of the implantable technology.
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– (Raiders News Update) - Applied Digital Solutions
(ADS) received patent rights to Digital Angel (TM) technology
on December 10, 1999. What set Digital Angel apart from the competition
was the innovative design--a miniature digital transceiver specifically
created for human implantation.
According to information released
last year the implantable transceiver "sends and receives
data and can be continuously tracked by GPS (Global Positioning
Satellite) technology. The transceiver's power supply and actuation
system are unlike anything ever created. When implanted within
a body, the device is powered electromechanically through the
movement of muscles, and it can be activated either by the 'wearer'
or by the monitoring facility."
An Information Technology
report recently verified plans to study implantable chips as
a method of tracking terrorists. After first pulling back from
the implantable version of its Digital Angel, ADS foresees a
unique use of its product in the wake of terrorist attacks in
New York and Washington.
"We've changed out thinking
since September 11," a company spokesman said, "Now
there's more of a need to monitor evil activities."
ADS also claims the Digital Angel
has a variety of other uses, such as "providing a tamper-proof
means of identification for enhanced e-business security, animal
tracking, locating lost or missing individuals, tracking the
location of valuable property and monitoring the medical conditions
of at-risk patients."
Following the Internet World
Wireless 2001 award for "Best of Show: Client Services,"
Mercedes Walton, President and COO of Applied Digital Solutions,
said: ``We have always had high expectations for the Digital
Angel products. This award is truly a validation of our faith
in Digital Angel's ability to capture the imagination of the
public. Consumer anticipation has translated into accelerated
interest from potential partners and allies. We are eager to
bring Digital Angel to the marketplace in a very timely manner...."
To further advocate Digital Angel
technology, Applied Digital Solutions launched a website http://www.digitalangel.net
where viewers can peruse diagrams and read summary information.
Other manufacturers of sub-skin
implants have quietly field-tested similar devices over the past
few years. The London Times reported in October 1998, "Film
stars and the children of millionaires are among 45 people, including
several Britons, who have been fitted with the chips (called
the Sky Eye) in secret tests."
Due to civil liberty and privacy
issues, the ACLU announced opposition to mandatory microchip
implantation when applied to humans. The ACLU is certain to be
a strange bedfellow of Christians and conservatives concerning
this issue.
THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY?
Many Christians believe that,
before long, an antichrist system will appear. It will be a New
World Order, under which national boundaries dissolve, and ethnic
groups, ideologies, religions, and economics from around the
world, orchestrate a single and dominant sovereignty. The system
will supposedly be free of religious and political extremes,
and membership will tolerate the philosophical and cultural differences
of its constituents. Except for minor nonconformities, war, terrorism,
and hunger will be a thing of the past.
According to popular Biblical
interpretation, a single personality will surface at the head
of the utopian administration. He will appear as a man of distinguished
character, but will ultimately become "a king of fierce
countenance" (Dan. 8:23).
With imperious decree the Antichrist
will facilitate the one-world government, universal religion,
and globally monitored socialism. Those who refuse his New World
Order will inevitably be imprisoned or destroyed, until at last
he exalts himself "above all that is called God, or that
is worshiped, so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God,
showing himself that he is God" (2 Thess. 2:4).
The Antichrist's widespread power will be
derived at the expense of individual human liberties. He will
force "all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and
bond to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
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. 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]" (Rev. 13:16-18).
For many years the idea that
humans could somehow succumb to little more than branded cattle,
and that rugged individualism would thereafter be sacrificed
for an anesthetized universal harmony, was repudiated by America’s
greatest minds.
Then, in the 1970’s, things
began to change. Following a call by Nelson Rockefeller for the
creation of a "New World Order," presidential candidate
Jimmy Carter campaigned, saying, "We must replace balance
of power politics with world order politics."
During the 1980's President George
Bush continued the one-world dirge, announcing over national
television that "a New World Order" had arrived. Following
the initial broadcast, President Bush addressed the Congress,
saying,
What is at stake
is more than one small country [Kuwait], it is a big idea--a
new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in
common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind:
peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world
worthy of our struggle, and worthy of our children’s future!
Ever since the President's astonishing
newscast, a parade of political and religious leaders have discharged
a profusion of rhetoric aimed at implementing the goals of a
New World Order.
Developers of biometric implant
chips employ similar language in announcing compatible global
technologies, and many Americans consider electronically marking
humans or implanting a series of digital equations beneath the
skin to be the natural progress of advancing and necessary technologies.
A 1980 defense department
cartoon showing a change taking place in Defense Management.
A runner hands over plans for national defense to another runner
with "666" on his track suit.
IT SHOULD COME
AS NO SURPRISE
Some people believe
implantable microchips will be the Biblical Mark of the Beast.
These claim that acts of
terrorism such as the ones in New York and Washington, encourage
microchipping humans for identification purposes.
But even before the New York
and Pentagon tragedies, a push was being made to brand and monitor
humanity.
Consider the following:
As far back as 1973, Senior Scholastics introduced school age
children to the concept of buying and selling using numbers inserted
in their forehead. In the September 20, 1973 feature "Who
Is Watching You?" the secular high school journal speculated:
"All buying
and selling in the program will be done by computer. No currency,
no change, no checks. In the program, people would receive a
number that had been assigned them tattooed in their wrist or
forehead. The number is put on by laser beam and cannot be felt.
The number in the body is not seen with the naked eye and is
as permanent as your fingerprints. All items of consumer goods
will be marked with a computer mark. The computer outlet in the
store which picks up the number on the items at the checkstand
will also pick up the number in the person's body and automatically
total the price and deduct the amount from the person's 'Special
Drawing Rights' account."
In the 1974 article "The Specter of Eugenics," Charles
Frankel pointed out Linus Pauling's (Nobel Prize winner) suggestions
that a mark be tattooed on the foot or forehead of every young
person. Pauling envisioned a mark denoting genotype.
In 1980, U.S. News and World Report continued the warning, pointing
out that the Federal Government was contemplating "National
Identity Cards," without which nobody could work or conduct
business.
The Denver Post Sun followed up in 1981, claiming that chip implants could someday
replace I.D. cards. The June 21, 1981 story read in part, "The
chip is placed in a needle which is affixed to a simple syringe
containing an anti-bacterial solution. The needle is capped and
ready to forever identify something--or somebody."
The May 7, 1996 Chicago Tribune questioned the technology, wondering
aloud if we could trust Big Brother under our skin?
Then in 1997 applications for patents of subcutaneous implant
devices for "a person or an animal" were applied for.
On April 27, 1998, Time Magazine ran the story, The Big Bank
Theory And What It Says About The Future OF Money, in which they
opined "Your daughter can store the money any way she wants--on
her laptop, on a debit card, even (in the not too distant future)
on a chip implanted under her skin."
In August 1998 the BBC covered the first known human microchip
implantation.
That same month the Sunday Oregonian warned that proposed medical
identifiers might erode privacy rights by tracking individuals
through alphanumeric health identifier technologies. The startling
Oregonian feature depicted humans with barcodes in their foreheads.
Senator Robb (Virginia) felt it necessary to add the MARC (multi-technology
automated reader card) Card Amendment to the FY97 DOD Authorization
Bill.
One can only speculate why
bionics is now attempting to create organisms that contain linked
organic (human cells) material with biometric chips for human
implantation (documentation
site).
Recently millions of Today Show viewers watched an American family
get "chipped" with ADS's VeriChip™ live from a
doctor's office in Boca Raton.
[Click
here for Hundreds of Supporting Documents, Recent News Stories,
and Research links to Advancing Sciences of Implantable Chip
Technologies]
Meanwhile, terrorism has many people in the mood these days to
sacrifice human liberties... and Digital Angel has opened its
mass production factory in Palm Beach, Florida.
[The ominous Oregonian feature]
WILL DIGITAL "MARKS" SOON BE MANDATORY?
Makers of implantable microchips
claim the procedure will be voluntary. But a report written by
Elaine M. Ramish for the Franklin Pierce Law Center says:
"A [mandatory] national identification
system via microchip implants could be achieved in two stages:
Upon introduction as a voluntary system, the microchip implantation
will appear to be palatable. After there is a familiarity with
the procedure and a knowledge of its benefits, implantation would
be mandatory."
George Getz, the communications
director for the Libertarian Party agrees, saying:
After all, the
government has never forced anyone to have a driver license,
[but] try getting along without one, when everyone from your
local banker to the car rental man to the hotel operator to the
grocery store requires one in order for you to take advantage
of their services, that amounts to a de facto mandate. If the
government can force you to surrender your fingerprints to get
a drivers license, why can't it force you to get a computer chip
implant?
People like Mr. Getz are correct.
Conservatives and liberals alike need to contact state and federal
representatives and demand laws preserving individual rights
before Digital Angel and similar forces lead humanity down a
high-tech path of no return.
In the same way Social Security
numbers were voluntary before becoming mandatory, biometric chip
implants will be compulsory in the future unless citizens rise
up in immediate and national opposition. Even Applied Digital
Solution's chief executive officer Richard Sullivan envisions
a scenario where ``people
[are] required to be chipped or [have] some combination of a
device requiring them to be scanned and monitored at all times.''
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Note what the prophet said!
And he causeth all, both
small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark
(charagma;
[Greek charax] meaning to stake into or "stick into")
in their
right hand, or in their foreheads....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 (Rev. 13:16-18)
Did the prophet foresee a hypodermic
needle injecting something beneath the skin? Sounds like it.
A temporary victory was won against
such ideas following the original news story by Raiders News
Update concerning ADS's implantable microchip intentions in 1999.
News services across the web ran our story resulting in an inundation
by concerned readers. ADS's shares droped on the Nasdaq from
$5.00 to .50 each. ADS then released this statement:
"We are
not pursuing any applications for embedded chips and we have
moved away from that for a couple of reasons....There are a number
of privacy concerns and religious implications -- fundamentalist
Christian groups [Raiders News Update] regard it [implanting
computer chips] as the Devil's work."
The reprieve didn't last long.
The Palm Beach testing center's wristwatch version of Digital
Angel was successful and ADS announced it would "start implanting
them inside humans between the muscle and the skin on the forearm
next year."
Then on 9-11, terrorism came
along, the perfect incentive for mandating everything from face
scanning to implantable chips as not only inevitable, but perhaps
simply a good idea.
These are differences in degree,
not in kind, and forecast a prediction made long ago:
And the third
angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship
the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead,
or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath
of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his
indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the
Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and
ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast
and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
(Rev. 14:9-11)
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