Are you ready, are your children ready or, Jeesus - it's here!
US group implants electronic tags in workers
By Richard Waters in San Francisco
Published: February 12 2006 22:02 | Last updated: February 12 2006 22:02
An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees - the
first known case in which US workers have been ³tagged² electronically as a
way of identifying them.
CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it was testing
the technology as a way of controlling access to a room where it holds
security video footage for government agencies and the police.
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Amazing, and the company calls itself, "City Watcher" - a superficially
benign self-definition, if there ever was one. I am actually thinking of
those people who wake up - after an evening drink of a special sort in a
distant City - and find themselves missing a kidney. Chip implants or their
removal will be the next phase of that kind of surgical practice. Or spare
the surgery, and may the hackers on the left unite and bring down those
chips. Certainly, parents are going to be demanding devices to insure their
children are not carrying government implants - or, conversely, there will
be those parents looking to give their children implants, along with the V
chips in their home computer systems. But workers at any job potentially
required to submit to this?
Ain't we humans all so lovely. Or as Rumsfeld says, "Goodness gracious."
Or, imagining Cheney, after firing his gun into a fellow hunter's face, "I
want to assure my fellow Americans this incident is not a metaphor for the
way I normally operate."
What's a lyric poem - or any poem - supposed to do with all this??
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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