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Title: VeriChip TV Ad Confirms Critics' Fears: They Want Everyone Implanted
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URL Source: http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/100 ... -they-want-everyone-implanted/
Published: Oct 20, 2009
Author: Jim Edwards
Post Date: 2009-11-22 07:16:34 by Itistoolate
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VeriChip TV Ad Confirms Critics' Fears: They Want Everyone Implanted VeriChip’s TV ad for its Health Link implantable microchip that connects to your online medical records has spawned a backlash on YouTube. Observers regard it as either part of President Obama’s secret Nazi plan( www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV6-nsLS8qw ) to enslave us all or a sign of the coming antichrist( www.youtube.com/watch?v=36PQ3C3fGQY ). The ad itself comes on like all drug advertising does — healthy, smiling middle-aged people describing the things about life they are thankful for. But, to give VeriChip’s critics some credit, the ad clearly positions the VeriChip as something for everyone, not merely patients who are so deranged or damaged that having a chip to transmit accurate data might be useful. It begins: To think something so slim can connect you. … Health Link is always with you when every second counts in the emergency room. … Because Bob has trouble remembering all his medications. So far so good. But then the ad suggests a much wider application. A young woman says: … because my car lost control while driving. And a groovy looking guy in a pork-pie hat adds: … because I have diabetes but it doesn’t have me. When you add this to VeriChip’s previous marketing activity — in which they implanted the chips in cuties on Miami’s nightclub scene( industry.bnet.com/pharma/...-history-social-security/ ) so they didn’t have to bother showing ID or carrying cash — the impression it gives is that VeriChip does indeed want everyone to be implanted.
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#1. To: Itistoolate (#0)
Here's what think about Verichip. If you've been in prison for rape, murder, child molestation and you've been released back into society, you should be chipped. That way your whereabouts can be tracked should there be a murder, rape, or a child goes missing in your area. I can see Verichip being useful for spies, and people who work in sensitive government installations. I can even see it being used for the mentally handicapped, or people who are mentally deficient who might go wandering. However, for as good as these ideas of mine are, there will always be people who use any kind of technology for outright malfeasance and to control the population. I have 2 cats that are chipped. I didn't have a choice. Has it hurt them? No. Then again I've never lost them. Should one of them get out, I can prove ownership, or locate my cat by satellite. I can see it being useful for farm animals and cattle. Fortunately for me, I am not cattle, and I don't think that treating people like tagged cattle is the way to go. This is really just about going to a cashless society. Period.
#3. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#1)
You can't do that with animal chip implants. You can just scan them if someone finds them and takes them to the vet or humane society or whatever.
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