What should an Orthodox Christian think when he sees people opening talking about the probablity of whole societies advocating and implementing the implantation of microchips under their skin for “security” reasons and “peace of mind” and the like? Well perhaps the following passages of Holy Scripture ought to come to mind:
“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief” (1 Th. 5:3)
Or, “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...” (Rev. 14:9).
But above all, such articles should only reinforce the following words of the Saviour:
“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass,and to stand before the Son of man” (Lk. 21:36).
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Britons ‘could be microchipped like dogs in a decade’
30.10.06
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news
Experts predict that humans could soon have ID chips implanted under the skin
Human beings may be forced to be ‘microchipped’ like pet dogs, a shocking official report into the rise of the Big Brother state has warned.
The microchips - which are implanted under the skin - allow the wearer’s movements to be tracked and store personal information about them.
They could be used by companies who want to keep tabs on an employee’s movements or by Governments who want a foolproof way of identifying their citizens - and storing information about them.
The prospect of ‘chip-citizens’ - with its terrifying echoes of George Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’ police state in the book 1984 - was raised in an official report for Britain’s Information Commissioner Richard Thomas into the spread of surveillance technology.
The report, drawn up by a team of respected academics, claims that Britain is a world-leader in the use of surveillance technology and its citizens the most spied-upon in the free world.
It paints a frightening picture of what Britain might be like in ten years time unless steps are taken to regulate the use of CCTV and other spy technologies.
The reports editors Dr David Murakami Wood, managing editor of the journal Surveillance and Society and Dr Kirstie Ball, an Open University lecturer in Organisation Studies, claim that by 2016 our almost every movement, purchase and communication could be monitored by a complex network of interlinking surveillance technologies.
The most contentious prediction is the spread in the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology.
The RFID chips - which can be detected and read by radio waves - are already used in new UK passports and are also used the Oyster card system to access the London Transport network.
For the past six years European countries have been using RFID chips to identify pet animals.
Already used in America
However, its use in humans has already been trialled in America, where the chips were implanted in 70 mentally-ill elderly people in order to track their movements.
And earlier this year a security company in Ohio chipped two of its employees to allow them to enter a secure area. The glass-encased chips were planted in the recipients’ upper right arms and ‘read’ by a device similar to a credit card reader.
In their Report on the Surveillance Society, the authors now warn: ”The call for everyone to be implanted is now being seriously debated.”
The authors also highlight the Government’s huge enthusiasm for CCTV, pointing out that during the 1990s the Home Office spent 78 per cent of its crime prevention budget - a total of £500 million - on installing the cameras.
Posted on 11/01/06. Filed under: The Contemporary World • Before the Face of Antichrist: How Shall we then Live? • • Email This Entry
