Test Marketing the Mark of the
Beast
By Thomas Horn
RNU News Sr.
Reporter
A prototype of an
implantable biometric chip capable of marking an
individual's precise location and of monitoring
him or her for life is gaining support. It
was named Best in Show of 170
International Science Exhibitors last year, and
released in its "First Phase" wristwatch format
called Guardian Angel soon after. Most
recently millions of Today Show viewers watched
an American family get "chipped" with ADS's
VeriChip™ live from a doctor's office in Boca
Raton. Recent acts of terrorism have many
calling for mandatory implementation of the
implantable technology.
RNU.com
– (Raiders News Update) - Applied Digital Solutions
(ADS) received patent rights to Digital Angel
(TM) technology on December 10, 1999. What set
Digital Angel apart from the competition was the
innovative design--a miniature digital
transceiver specifically created for human
implantation.
According to
information released last year the implantable
transceiver "sends and receives data and can be
continuously tracked by GPS (Global Positioning
Satellite) technology. The transceiver's power
supply and actuation system are unlike anything
ever created. When implanted within a body, the
device is powered electromechanically through
the movement of muscles, and it can be activated
either by the 'wearer' or by the monitoring
facility."
An Information
Technology report recently verified plans to
study implantable chips as a method of tracking
terrorists. After first pulling back from the
implantable version of its Digital Angel, ADS
foresees a unique use of its product in the wake
of terrorist attacks in New York and
Washington.
"We've changed out
thinking since September 11," a company
spokesman said, "Now there's more of a need to
monitor evil activities."
ADS also claims the
Digital Angel has a variety of other uses, such
as "providing a tamper-proof means of
identification for enhanced e-business security,
animal tracking, locating lost or missing
individuals, tracking the location of valuable
property and monitoring the medical conditions
of at-risk patients."
Following the
Internet World Wireless 2001 award for "Best of
Show: Client Services," Mercedes Walton,
President and COO of Applied Digital Solutions,
said: ``We have always had high expectations for
the Digital Angel products. This award is truly
a validation of our faith in Digital Angel's
ability to capture the imagination of the
public. Consumer anticipation has translated
into accelerated interest from potential
partners and allies. We are eager to bring
Digital Angel to the marketplace in a very
timely manner...."
To further advocate
Digital Angel technology, Applied Digital
Solutions launched a website
http://www.digitalangel.net where viewers
can peruse diagrams and read summary
information.
Other manufacturers
of sub-skin implants have quietly field-tested
similar devices over the past few years. The
London Times reported in October 1998, "Film
stars and the children of millionaires are among
45 people, including several Britons, who have
been fitted with the chips (called the Sky Eye)
in secret tests."
Due to civil liberty
and privacy issues, the ACLU announced
opposition to mandatory microchip implantation
when applied to humans. The ACLU is certain to
be a strange bedfellow of Christians and
conservatives concerning this issue.
THE FULFILLMENT OF
PROPHECY?
Many Christians
believe that, before long, an antichrist system
will appear. It will be a New World Order, under
which national boundaries dissolve, and ethnic
groups, ideologies, religions, and economics
from around the world, orchestrate a single and
dominant sovereignty. The system will supposedly
be free of religious and political extremes, and
membership will tolerate the philosophical and
cultural differences of its constituents. Except
for minor nonconformities, war, terrorism, and
hunger will be a thing of the past.
According to popular
Biblical interpretation, a single personality
will surface at the head of the utopian
administration. He will appear as a man of
distinguished character, but will ultimately
become "a king of fierce countenance" (Dan.
8:23).
With imperious decree
the Antichrist will facilitate the one-world
government, universal religion, and globally
monitored socialism. Those who refuse his New
World Order will inevitably be imprisoned or
destroyed, until at last he exalts himself
"above all that is called God, or that is
worshiped, so that he, as God, sitteth in the
temple of God, showing himself that he is God"
(2 Thess. 2:4).
The Antichrist's widespread
power will be derived at the expense of
individual human liberties. He will force "all,
both small and great, rich and poor, free and
bond to receive a mark in their right hand, or
in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or
sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of
the beast, or the number of his name. Here is
wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count
the number of the beast: for it is the number of
a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore
and six [666]" (Rev. 13:16-18).
For many years the
idea that humans could somehow succumb to little
more than branded cattle, and that rugged
individualism would thereafter be sacrificed for
an anesthetized universal harmony, was
repudiated by America’s greatest
minds.
Then, in the 1970’s,
things began to change. Following a call by
Nelson Rockefeller for the creation of a "New
World Order," presidential candidate Jimmy
Carter campaigned, saying, "We must replace
balance of power politics with world order
politics."
During the 1980's
President George Bush continued the one-world
dirge, announcing over national television that
"a New World Order" had arrived. Following the
initial broadcast, President Bush addressed the
Congress, saying,
What is at stake is more than one small
country [Kuwait], it is a big idea--a new world
order, where diverse nations are drawn together
in common cause to achieve the universal
aspirations of mankind: peace and security,
freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world
worthy of our struggle, and worthy of our
children’s future!
Ever since the President's
astonishing newscast, a parade of political and
religious leaders have discharged a profusion of
rhetoric aimed at implementing the goals of a
New World Order.
Developers of
biometric implant chips employ similar language
in announcing compatible global technologies,
and many Americans consider electronically
marking humans or implanting a series of digital
equations beneath the skin to be the natural
progress of advancing and necessary
technologies.
A 1980 defense department
cartoon showing a change taking place in Defense
Management. A runner hands over plans for
national defense to another runner with "666" on
his track suit.
IT
SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE
Some people believe implantable
microchips will be the Biblical Mark of the
Beast. These claim that acts of terrorism
such as the ones in New York and Washington,
encourage microchipping humans for
identification purposes.
But even before the
New York and Pentagon tragedies, a push was
being made to brand and monitor
humanity.
Consider the
following:
As
far back as 1973, Senior Scholastics introduced
school age children to the concept of buying and
selling using numbers inserted in their
forehead. In the September 20, 1973 feature "Who
Is Watching You?" the secular high school
journal speculated:
"All
buying and selling in the program will be done
by computer. No currency, no change, no checks.
In the program, people would receive a number
that had been assigned them tattooed in their
wrist or forehead. The number is put on by laser
beam and cannot be felt. The number in the body
is not seen with the naked eye and is as
permanent as your fingerprints. All items of
consumer goods will be marked with a computer
mark. The computer outlet in the store which
picks up the number on the items at the
checkstand will also pick up the number in the
person's body and automatically total the price
and deduct the amount from the person's 'Special
Drawing Rights' account."
In
the 1974 article "The Specter of Eugenics,"
Charles Frankel pointed out Linus Pauling's
(Nobel Prize winner) suggestions that a mark be
tattooed on the foot or forehead of every young
person. Pauling envisioned a mark denoting
genotype.
In
1980, U.S. News and World Report continued the
warning, pointing out that the Federal
Government was contemplating "National Identity
Cards," without which nobody could work or
conduct business.
The
Denver Post Sun followed up in 1981, claiming that chip implants could
someday replace I.D. cards. The June 21, 1981
story read in part, "The chip is placed in a
needle which is affixed to a simple syringe
containing an anti-bacterial solution. The
needle is capped and ready to forever identify
something--or somebody."
The
May 7, 1996 Chicago Tribune questioned the
technology, wondering aloud if we could trust
Big Brother under our skin?
Then in 1997 applications for patents of
subcutaneous implant devices for "a person or an
animal" were applied for.
On
April 27, 1998, Time Magazine ran the story, The
Big Bank Theory And What It Says About The
Future OF Money, in which they opined "Your
daughter can store the money any way she
wants--on her laptop, on a debit card, even (in
the not too distant future) on a chip implanted
under her skin."
In
August 1998 the BBC covered the first known
human microchip implantation.
That same month the Sunday Oregonian warned that
proposed medical identifiers might erode privacy
rights by tracking individuals through
alphanumeric health identifier technologies. The
startling Oregonian feature depicted humans with
barcodes in their foreheads.
Senator Robb (Virginia) felt it necessary to add
the MARC (multi-technology automated reader
card) Card Amendment to the FY97 DOD
Authorization Bill.
One
can only speculate why bionics is now attempting
to create organisms that contain linked organic
(human cells) material with biometric chips for
human implantation (documentation
site).
Recently millions of Today Show viewers watched
an American family get "chipped" with ADS's
VeriChip™ live from a doctor's office in Boca
Raton.
[Click
here for Hundreds of Supporting Documents,
Recent News Stories, and Research links to
Advancing Sciences of Implantable Chip
Technologies]
Meanwhile, terrorism has many people in the mood
these days to sacrifice human liberties... and
Digital Angel has opened its mass production
factory in Palm Beach, Florida.
[The
ominous Oregonian feature]
WILL DIGITAL
"MARKS" SOON BE MANDATORY?
Makers of implantable
microchips claim the procedure will be
voluntary. But a report written by Elaine M.
Ramish for the Franklin Pierce Law Center
says:
"A [mandatory] national
identification system via microchip implants
could be achieved in two stages: Upon
introduction as a voluntary system, the
microchip implantation will appear to be
palatable. After there is a familiarity with the
procedure and a knowledge of its benefits,
implantation would be mandatory."
George Getz, the
communications director for the Libertarian
Party agrees, saying:
After
all, the government has never forced
anyone to have a driver license, [but] try
getting along without one, when everyone from
your local banker to the car rental man to the
hotel operator to the grocery store requires one
in order for you to take advantage of their
services, that amounts to a de facto mandate. If
the government can force you to surrender your
fingerprints to get a drivers license, why can't
it force you to get a computer chip
implant?
People like Mr. Getz
are correct. Conservatives and liberals alike
need to contact state and federal
representatives and demand laws preserving
individual rights before Digital Angel and
similar forces lead humanity down a high-tech
path of no return.
In the same way
Social Security numbers were voluntary before
becoming mandatory, biometric chip implants will
be compulsory in the future unless citizens rise
up in immediate and national opposition. Even
Applied Digital Solution's chief executive
officer Richard Sullivan envisions a scenario
where ``people
[are] required to be chipped or [have] some
combination of a device requiring them to be
scanned and monitored at all times.''
[1]
Note what the prophet
said!
And he causeth
all, both small and great, rich and poor, free
and bond, to receive a mark
(charagma;
[Greek charax] meaning to stake into or
"stick into") in
their right hand, or in their foreheads....Here
is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count
the number of the beast: for it is the number of
a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore
and six (Rev. 13:16-18)
Did
the prophet foresee a hypodermic needle
injecting something beneath the skin? Sounds
like it.
A temporary victory
was won against such ideas following the
original news story by Raiders News Update
concerning ADS's implantable microchip
intentions in 1999. News services across the web
ran our story resulting in an inundation by
concerned readers. ADS's shares droped on the
Nasdaq from $5.00 to .50 each. ADS then released
this statement:
"We are
not pursuing any applications for embedded chips
and we have moved away from that for a couple of
reasons....There are a number of privacy
concerns and religious implications --
fundamentalist Christian groups [Raiders News
Update] regard it [implanting computer chips] as
the Devil's work."
The reprieve didn't
last long. The Palm Beach testing center's
wristwatch version of Digital Angel was
successful and ADS announced it would "start
implanting them inside humans between the muscle
and the skin on the forearm next
year."
Then on 9-11,
terrorism came along, the perfect incentive for
mandating everything from face scanning to
implantable chips as not only inevitable, but
perhaps simply a good idea.
These are differences
in degree, not in kind, and forecast a
prediction made long ago:
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, which is poured out without
mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he
shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in
the presence of the holy angels, and in the
presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their
torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they
have no rest day nor night, who worship the
beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the
mark of his name. (Rev. 14:9-11)
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