A few days ago I showed a video about a new driver's license with RF chip which is being sold to voters as a faster and easier way to cross America's borders. I wrote a small piece about how this might invite all kinds of unitended consequences for Big Brother to snoop on you.
Now the fringe element of the Christian Taliban, those who read Tim Le Hay books such as "Left Behind", are taking up the same issue and twisting it as the "mark of the beast".
From the World Net Daily, the online voice of evangelical/Conservative news and opinion we get the lowdown on the mark of the beast:
You can read the remainder of the article by clicking here on the red emboldened title LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER - Radio chip coming soon to your driver's license ?Homeland Security seeks next-generation REAL IDPrivacy advocates are issuing warnings about a new radio chip plan that ultimately could provide electronic identification for every adult in the U.S. and allow agents to compile attendance lists at anti-government rallies simply by walking through the
assembly.
The proposal, which has earned the support of Janet Napolitano, the newly chosen chief of the Department of Homeland Security, would embed radio chips in driver's licenses, or "enhanced driver's licenses."
"Enhanced driver's licenses give confidence that the person holding the card is the person who is supposed to be holding the card, and it's less elaborate than REAL ID," Napolitano said in a Washington Times report.
REAL ID is a plan for a federal identification system standardized across the nation that so alarmed governors many states have adopted formal plans to oppose it. However, a privacy advocate today told WND that the EDLs are many times worse.
Radio talk show host and identity chip expert Katherine Albrecht said REAL ID earned the opposition of Christians because of its resemblance to the biblical "mark of the beast," civil libertarians opposed it for its "big brother" connotations and others
worried about identity theft issues with the proposed databases.
"We got rid of the REAL ID program, but [this one] is way more insidious," she said.
Enhanced driver's licenses have built-in radio chips providing an identifying number or information that can be accessed by a remote reading unit while the license is inside a wallet or purse.
The technology already had been implemented in Washington state, where it is promoted as an alternative to a passport for traveling to Canada. So far, the program is optional. But there are other agreements already approved with Michigan, Vermont, New York and Arizona, and plans are under way in other states, including
Texas, she said.
Big Brother Looks Into Taxing You By The Mile Using GPS In OR, MA, ID, NC, RI and MN, while Mayor Daley Wants A CCTV Camera On Every Street Corner In Chicago
On Lou Dobbs the other night:
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