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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 02/10/2010 : 17:38:28
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Seems that the VA legislature is passing a bill outlawing mandatory chip implants. And guess what one of the reason is -- ok, don't guess; I'll tell you. The chip could be the Mark of the Beast! We can't have that, now can we?
Concerns over privacy have aligned with apocalyptic Biblical prophecy in a proposed Virginia law that limits the use of microchip implants on humans because of a lawmaker's concern that the chips will prove to be the Antichrist's "mark of the beast."
On Wednesday, Virginia's House of Delegates passed a bill that forbids companies from forcing their employees to be implanted with tracking devices, a move likely to be applauded by civil libertarians.
But Virginia state Delegate Mark Cole's reasons for proposing the law have as much to do with the Book of Revelation as they do with concerns over privacy in the digital age.
Cole says he is concerned that the implants will turn out to be the "mark of the beast" worn by Satan's minions.
"My understanding -- I'm not a theologian -- but there's a prophecy in the Bible that says you'll have to receive a mark, or you can neither buy nor sell things in end times," Cole said, as quoted at the Washington Post. "Some people think these computer chips might be that mark."
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I don't think I'd like to be chipped for any reason. Throw in the poetic and possibly drug unduced ranting of St. John the Revelator, and the prospect becomes a bit more intersting, but even less appealing.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Chippin' at the woo....
