If this passes, Adam can travel to Georgia and sleep in peace knowing he won’t be chipped. He still will have to worry about two to the head, earthquake machines, anal probes by space aliens, …
Last Wednesday, the [Georgia] House Judiciary Committee entertained SB 235, the bill sponsored by Sen. Chip Pearson (R-Dawsonville) to prohibit the involuntary implantation of microchips in human beings.
In Gov. Roy Barnes’ stump speech, the bill has become a routine example of the Republican tendency to attack problems that don’t exist, and ignore the ones that do. Besides, Barnes argues, if someone holds him down to insert a microchip in his head, “it should be more than a damned misdemeanor.”
Three states have instituted bans, and others have considered the legislation. In Virginia, a bill supporter declared microchips to be the “666″ mark of the beast referred to in the Book of Revelation.
Pearson has said his motivation isn’t biblical or religious – that he is simply working in advance of technology’s next assault on personal privacy. Not unlike limiting the uses of DNA testing by health insurance companies, he argues.
It’s interesting how people usually criticize the gov’t. for being slow moving and bureaucratic, but now that it tries to look ahead and anticipate technological change it is also being criticized. Sometimes you just can’t win.
Also, kinda funny that the Senators name is “Chip”…it’d be even funnier if his nickname was “the Terminator”.
You “think” they are looking ahead huh and not as people so often say being a total waste of space pandering to the worse in their electorate?
You sir have the government you deserve, the rest of us want competency at a bare minimum.
#18 Benji – Your point appears to be the Georgia House has no influence on the Federal government and they only make $16,000 a year so back off.
If that’s your point then I agree that’s up to Georgia citizens to judge.
The article, I believe, is an examination of legislative waste of time on ridiculous “issues” for political gain purposes. Debating if Wall Street is in new York or if politicians make $16K or $150 is what I call a red herring argument on the bigger issue brought forward.
Hey Benji–you are right, Dallas is wrong.
Make your best argument if you even deign to argue with someone who is obviously unwilling to admit to a mistake.
Whats that smell?
#23 “Debating if Wall Street is in new York or if politicians make $16K or $150 is what I call a red herring argument on the bigger issue brought forward.”
You didn’t do your research when you said Georgia politicians make $150K a year. Suggesting that the Georgia Legislature should be focused on Wallstreet just suggest a fundamental lack of understanding of how government works.
#23 “The article, I believe, is an examination of legislative waste of time on ridiculous “issues” for political gain purposes.”
So I asked again: After taking in mind how the US Congress has taken over whatussed to be state issues, what does that leave the Georgian Legislature left to do? Not really that much except funding the schools and the roads.
#25 You’re right Benji, I’m wrong. Georgia politicians do not make 150K. That settles that mystery.
Also, Georgia legislature has nothing to do with Wallstreet. I’m wrong again.
I guess that settles what this article was conveying.
Note to self:
Choose my arguments more carefully with someone who can see the forest.
#24 Yes. Bobbo. You were won that other argument of opinions, whether the soldiers on the Apache helicopter were on the right.
I did not mean to leave you hanging. Clearly it was a murder. What was I thinking !
Really, you won. Really.
I am personally in favour of electronic tagging of people. But facial recognition software is now so very good, that it is quite possible that tagging is unnecessary. They can ID you from 200 ft away while you’re driving your car on a freeway at 60 miles an hour. At night, while wearing glasses and a false moustache.
Well, its not about who wins but how the game is played. Honest disagreement is fine, but not accepting the logic of an argument really isn’t.
I was basically with you until Benji made his first hint about the limited role of State Legislatures. The State was still wasting its time by not attending to other important STATE issues===but now I’m preaching to the pennant. Sorry.
In time everyone will be wearing one of these things however in the short term people under house arrest and sex offenders are likely to be the first targets for involuntary chipping.
If you get a peace warrant sworn out against you or you are convicted of stalking that would serve as grounds for a chipping.
Of course if you haul around a cell phone that is turned on the government can track you anyway.
Next, Georgia is going to outlaw hook hands because these hook guys murder teens necking in cars after they run out of gas on deserted highways.
Stop voting for low-information politicians!
Hey, Bobbo : No extra credit for the most number of bytes in a non de plumber.
Give us a break. It takes time (sometimes a lot of time) to parse your posts. Now we have to parse your pen name, too?
“Bobbo, the Almighty” will do just fine.
You are very generous Animby==most want to penalize me, so a mere lack of extra credit is heartwarming.
I apologize for my inarticulateness, and do assume its my poor typing that causes the anguish.
I’ll accept “Alrighty” but as an evangelical anti-theist, I see the gibe!! (smile!).
SAY–I thought of you yesterday. I was speaking to an ex Navy Corpsman and we both were of the opinion that back when we were both pre-med, everyone else in the class was smarter than we were==hence our lower status career paths. But now with a few years behind us, we notice there are a lot of really dull witted doctor.
What kind of circle squaring do you guys go through?
I’m not liking where the police state mentality is going in countries like the UK or even here.
Anything anti-”Big Brother” is a good thing.
@5 Bobbo
“What businesses have an overriding interest in where their employees are?”
If left unchecked, I would imagine about all of them.
CEOs and executives see themselves as little gods, and Senators see themselves as big gods.
And with big corporate money financing the political parties these days, the line between government and business will blur in a disgusting way.
There is a law against, for example, polygraphs and if such a law did not exist, imagine how frequently employers would use that.
But without our government-supplied chips, how will we prove to the Arizona state troopers that we’re legal citizens?
#33 bobbo the Alrighty – “What kind of circle squaring do you guys go through?”
Beats the hell out of me. I’ve been out of school so long they used to teach us the only sure sign of death was decomposition! BTW, I, too, started out as a corpsman but in an Army Ranger company.
“…we notice there are a lot of really dull witted doctor.”
My old biochemistry professor and I have remained friends lo these many years. He is now in his dotage and raises golden retrievers that, he claims, are smarter than most of his students. He used to say (and I pretty much agree) it helps to be smart if you want to be a doctor but it’s more important to have a good memory. Then there was our pharmacology prof who opined that you won’t be a good doctor until you’ve killed a few patients.
So, I guess I’m a good doc.
#35 Hmeyers said, “There is a law against, for example, polygraphs and if such a law did not exist, imagine how frequently employers would use that.” Don’t you find it interesting, then, that the US Gov’t uses polygraphs freely and with impunity.
#36 – Uncle Patso – As Sheriff Joe would say, “You coulda bought that chip anywhere!”
While involuntary implants are not on high on my list of concerns, I will say I’m for voluntary implants. The benefits would be very substantial.
I predict voluntary chipping will be mainstream and commonplace within 20 years.
This story needs to be connected to the Arizona police bust-you-if-you-look-Mexican story.
What? There was no coverage here on the Arizona police bust-you-if-you-look-Mexican story?
Never mind.
Animby–”Army Ranger Corpsman?”===great RESPECT. No wonder you swat my insults aside as if they were irrelevant to your life’s purpose.
My problem pre med was not lack of memory, although it is not photographic as so many of my competitors nearly had, no it was microbiology and with the R-2 Complex or the mitochondria placed dead center in the specimen slide, I couldn’t make it out from the blue stain. So, I went with the Humanities. Ha, ha.
and “the Dean” thinks the same of his professors, and on down the line. Hubris.
To avoid Hubris, you have to recognize you did kill that patient. I’ve seen good docs avoid that, good pilots avoid their errors, intelligent people avoid learning experiences of all kinds and stripes. Hubris.
Hope for God’s Mercy, because the merit system will find Heaven much like the Texas Panhandle.