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04.28.10 - 10:59 PM
Immigrants: Microchipped, Galvanized, Possibly Unwelcome Elsewhere
It seems so-called doctor and Iowa GOP Congressional candidate Pat Bertroche is taking heat for his seemingly sensible suggestion to install microchips in illegal immigrants because it works swell for his dog - even though he's now saying it was all the media's fault. Still, even as immigrants rights advocates say that Arizona's new law has galvanized many, the Wonk Room reports that at least seven states are considering copy-cat legislation that rivals it for ethnic cleansing.
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Show AllPlease be an Internet joke.
Because the US is just getting loopy enough to actually commit this atrocity. What's next? Publicly funded police death squads operating openly?
Oh, wait. I forgot. The Halliburton/KBR built 'detention facilities' that have been on stand-by all this time... silly me.
This has been around a couple of years now. To help streamline our current catch & release system, making it esier to process the thousands of illeagal insurgents that come thru our revolveing door border.
Other ideas involved spraying the border with chemicals that flourese in different frequencies of light. Also spraying the border finely powdered depleated urainium, this would allow them to be tracked from space and be very hard to get rid of they would remain radioactive for 10/25 years.
While the tags are a new idea also suggerted for use in carier felons. I've seen proposels that allow them amnesty only after they submit to spay/nutering. and some form of tagging so they'll be easier to spot later when they commit other crimes and are processed through the penal system.
Depleted Uranium is radioactive for 25000 years. Not 10-25.
Actually, the half life of U238 is 4.47 billion years. But, the radioactivity is low. It only becomes dangerous when in the form of respirable dust.
As in the suggested spray of powder, I take it?
What makes you think that police are not already targeting and assassinating? Remember the man in Oakland who was thrown to the ground and held down by two cops while a third murdered him? How do we know that it wasn't a targeted assassination in broad daylight?
Point.
I speak of them doing it night after night after night to dozens of people, not one or two.
Perhaps the people shoudl consider laws to have all of their Public Servants microchipped.
In this way they can better determine when they are frequenting mens washrooms in parks, visiting bawdy houses meeting with lobbyists or visiting mistresses in Argentina.
The Politician as the "Peoples Servant" can give montly updates as to where they had been that month and this can be compared to what the microchips record.
Greta White North, but why stop there? Have everyone micro-chipped and GPS'd. That way everyone knows where everyone is and nobody can try anything. Think how safe we will all be then.
Think how much automated tax can be achieved by correlating with speed limits and issuing tickets. As this technology advances it can also be used to turn off those that do not contribute to society and are a drain on it.
Those in the MIC, heads of corporations, Wall Street practioners and THE Government will of course be exempt.
"Greta White North, but why stop there? Have everyone micro-chipped and GPS'd. That way everyone knows where everyone is and nobody can try anything. Think how safe we will all be then."
If you have a cell phone, you are already tagged. Every phone for the past ten years has both those features.
And you carry it everywhere, voluntarily.
Man is the only animal that domesticates itself, and hands itself over to the butcher.
The silence of the lambs.
"Think how much automated tax can be achieved by correlating with speed limits and issuing tickets."
This is a project already underway in Pennsylvania. Of course it's the car that will be chipped, not the owner. They are currently testing the necessary equipment at a test track in Harrisburg.
Reminds me of the Eskimo tags placed on Canadian Inuit in the 1940s. It was illegal for them to wander around without their 'number' around their neck. Like, they hadn't been wandering around Canada for 10,000 years.
New to me.
Thanks.
Many other similar instances and small research seems to validate it. After I make certain I will add it to my very long list of Anglo-Saxon misdemeanour.
All goes to show the current behaviour of the USA is merely the open expression of the essential absurdity of the culture. One thing I can bet on is that most Anglo-Saxons will strenuously claim to be completely unaware of anything wrong in the state of theirs.
Tsk Tsk!
They are very stupid you see, which will probably be their last defence after all else has failed.
The tone of this indicates a simple truth. In dealing with these people and their associates the gloves must come off. The innumerable instances of behaviour and approval of such like this must result in punishment. International prosecutors must aim not at the small African criminals, but at the big ones. The results will be spectacular. One little favourite of mine is Kissinger, possibly because he had me fooled in my extreme youth.
I, too, thought Henry was a great man when I was a very young one...I thought that of a number of folks I learned much more about later...
parents have an interesting role in an insane world...
I am pretty open with my children about the way I see the current world working, and why, and get very interesting opinions about this...
this chip issue will not go away...
chips and drones
chips and drones
chips and drones and bleaching bones
chips and drones
Pat Bertroche's smiling face is the face of fascism. Squeaky clean, pasty, radiant on the outside. What's inside, however, is another story. Inside, there is repression, anger, and malignancy.
Pat Bertroche is the human face of America. We are all under the skin of this nation and unless we change ourselves we will be pulling up our jackboots and shitkicking each other.
I just couldn't place him. that is Germany's WWI flying ace and fat slob who was joined at the hip with Hitler all through WWII---Hermann Goering.
Wow! This is gonna go over great with the "Left Behind/Armageddon" crowd. (You know, Mark of the Beast, and all). Yet maybe they won't object until they come to implant chips in them. This could be interesting to watch how fundamentalist Christians react to this.
Freedom has been measured through the centuries as: "one is free," then "some are free," then "all are free."
Today, under Mr. Wonderful Obamageddon we are moving in the repressive direction to "some are free," again.
Obamageddon is the best Republican president since Richard M. Nixon.
This jerk, like damn near all republicans, is the one who needs a chip implanted. Perhaps we can come up with one that will stop people from selling out their country to big money. Or one that might inflict the bearer with a sense of HUMANITY and compassion. Or even a sense of SANITY. But that would most likely cause his little brain to explode.
If you REALLY want to do something that will WORK, then REPEAL NAFTA, CAFTA, and GATT. Those things have DESTROYED Mexico's economy, and that is why you have seen such a wave of Mexicans coming here. I suspect they would REALLY prefer to stay in their own homes, with their own families, making money to take care of both, IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. It was Clinton pushing through GHW Bush's BRILLIANT trade ideas that is causing this. The Mexicans here are in even WORSE situations than we are. To blame them for the actions of OUR gov't is not only stupid, but it's foolish, and keeps the discussion from being placed where it SHOULD be placed: squarely on the back of big business and the top 2%. FOLLOW THE MONEY. Where is it all? In the hands of the TOP 2% and big business. SURPRISE!!!
This guy is just another lying republican who cares FAR more about money than honesty, reality, or even HUMANITY. May he rot in the hell he deserves.
A chip easy to take out again. Then you can mix them with salsa and feed them to sheriffs.
No, the only way of doing this is tattoo numbers on their arms (and we can also make people wear yellw stars, pink triangles, green shamrocks... ).
Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi party!
We knew that the USA and empire was blowing up and melting down -- it has to start happening somewhere.