Today's Virginian-Pilot has an editorial, "Tinfoil hats are not enough." The subject is legislation by Del. Mark Cole (R-Spotsylvania) that would "put an end to a disturbing threat to public safety...Virginians are in danger of having top-secret microchips implanted against their will." Yes, this is nuts. And no, this is (apparently) not a joke. That's right, believe it or not, as our economy and infrastructure crumble, this is what our wonderful House of Delegates chooses to spend its time on. As the Virginian-Pilot inquires, "Don’t lawmakers have better things to worry about than aliens and hair transplant specialists?" Apparently not.
What particularly amazes me is that this bill, HB 53, is actually making its way along through the relevant House committees. Thus, on February 3, it was reported from Courts of Justice by a vote of 22-0. That's right, it was decided by a unanimous vote - including every Democrat on the committee - that Virginians need protection from what the Virginian-Pilot sarcastically calls "[t]he alarming prospect of involuntary micro-chipping." All I can say is, at times like this, thank goodness our delegates in Richmond have their priorities straight! Heh.
UPDATE: Apparently, the craziness is in Georgia, too. "Acting on a threat that appears only in conspiracy theorist blogs and the Book of Revelation, the state Senate on Feb. 4 overwhelmingly passed legislation that would prohibit the implantation of a microchip in a person without their consent." Well, alrighty then!
UPDATE #2: NLS has more.
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Weird. A speaker mentioned "gov't going to put microchips in your body as part of the health care reform bill" during the American Life League's Personhood Now conference a couple of weeks ago. I had no idea this was a new "crazy" meme working its way through the radical right groups and now apparently through the General Assembly.
Oh, this goes back for DECADES in the "Left Behind" type of thinking. (Says someone who has sat through endless sermons on this very subject.)
Are these the same folks who used to think fluoride was a communist plot?
I'm not saying there isn't overlap, but no one I knew personally talked about fluoride growing up. But people (lots of people) talked (all the time) about the microchip being put into us with the "Mark of the beast."
It would seem to me that if you deliberately placed a foreign body (micro chip) in a persons body without their knowledge and consent it would already be a crime, like assault and battery, without the need to have additional legislation. Pandering to the religious crazies with junk like this only makes us look more ignorant and stupid.
Maybe having a part-time legislature isn't such a bad thing. Imagine what they could think up if they had to fill up the entire year with legislation.
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