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Title: VeriChip [RFID] keeps track of Katrina's victims
Source: AP
URL Source: http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/nation/12811461.htm
Published: Oct 4, 2005
Author: David Dishneau
Post Date: 2005-10-05 09:11:37 by Fred Mertz
Keywords: Katrinas, VeriChip, victims
Views: 230
Comments: 22

GULFPORT, Miss. - As body counts mounted and missing-person reports multiplied in the days after Hurricane Katrina, some morgue workers began using a new technology to keep track of unidentified remains.

Radio-frequency identification chips -- slender red cylinders about half an inch long -- were implanted under the corpses' skin or placed inside body bags.

Each VeriChip, donated by a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions Inc., emits a specific radio signal, enabling morgue workers to quickly locate and catalog the remains and reduce errors.

With dozens of bodies in two Mississippi counties -- Harrison and Hancock -- still unidentified, Harrison County Coroner Gary T. Hargrove said the chips have been a boon to the Disaster Mortuary Operational Recovery Team he oversees.

"It's better enabled me to do my job as the coroner -- tracking and getting people's loved ones back to them quickly," he said.

Besides tagging the storm victims, which are kept in refrigerated trucks at Gulfport-Biloxi Regional Airport, the chips are helping Hargrove catalog other human remains that the flood waters released from damaged caskets and burial vaults in cemeteries.

These types of chips are increasingly being used to monitor the movement of goods and equipment by the likes of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the U.S. military.

Approved by the Food and Drug Administration for human implantation in 2004, the VeriChips have been used for tagging pets and identifying high-security workers, but not for managing morgue cases before, Applied Digital spokesman John O. Procter said.

Each chip is packaged in a white plastic injector that looks like a bulky pen attached to a thick hypodermic needle.

Hargrove said the chips are implanted in the corpse's shoulder or placed inside the body bag, depending on the condition of the remains.

Plastic scanners that resemble TV remote controls are used to read the chips. They have screens that display a 16-digit number when passed within six inches of a chip. The same number is preprinted on bar-code stickers attached to each injector package.

Hargrove said the stickers go on the outside of the bag, on the case file and on any DNA samples taken from the remains.

Conventional morgue case management involves ankle bracelets, which must be checked to ensure that the remains match their file numbers.

"The VeriChip allows the technicians to accurately and quickly identify the remains inside the body bag without having to open the body bag at each step along the process," Procter said.

Some privacy advocates fear that implantable chips could lead to unwanted tracking of humans.

But Chuck Kerr, a businessman in Murfreesboro, Tenn., whose parents' bodies were at the mortuary team's site in Gulfport for nearly two weeks after the Aug. 29 storm, doesn't object to the technology's use in disaster recovery.

"If it helps the families find their loved ones, then I think it's a good thing," he said.

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#7. To: Fred Mertz (#0)

Well, that's it. I'm going out to go get chipped. Fuck it. Nothing is going to stop the fact that they'll chip my dead ass some day. Let them track me. Let them do their worst. I'll still be as free as I am today, and I guarantee, the minute that someone comes through that door to take me away, NOT ONE OF MY FUCKING NEIGHBORS, OR THE ARMCHAIR PATRIOTS WILL DO A GODDAMNED THING ABOUT IT.

I accept the inevitable. The Mark Of The Beast isn't a chip under your skin, or a brand on your forehead. It's accepting and being indifferent to the suffering of others, and having Evil in your heart. Do I have evil in my heart? No, but I do have a lot of anger, and animosity towards my fellow sheep, who sit idly by and do nothing.

I was on a rant yesterday, and I'm on another one today. I might as well get chipped, because who wants to live in a nation of sheep, who perpetually sleep, and get sheared?

It's a joke that this country even exists because of the people we have running.

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2005-10-05   10:23:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#7)

I was on a rant yesterday, and I'm on another one today. I might as well get chipped, because who wants to live in a nation of sheep, who perpetually sleep, and get sheared?

Good sport, you are willing to accept the inevitable. God luv ya!, tis a beautiful time in history when one sees "resistance is futile" and coalesces. Bravo my dear friend

timetobuildaboat  posted on  2005-10-05   10:30:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: timetobuildaboat (#8)

The idea of getting chipped, is not new to me. Here's why.

I get the chip, but I leverage all my debt on this chip. Meaning, I tell the powers that be, that they wipe out my debts, and they get to chip me.

After I get the chip, I get one of those little Gauss magnets, and put it over the chip. Problem solved. SO FUCKING SIMPLE.

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2005-10-05   10:34:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#9)

After I get the chip, I get one of those little Gauss magnets, and put it over the chip. Problem solved. SO FUCKING SIMPLE.

.No guarantee on the Gauss magnet, but a faraday cage, maybe.

timetobuildaboat  posted on  2005-10-05   10:38:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: timetobuildaboat (#10)

Which brings me to the joke of...

So, are you a patriot in a cage????

No, why???

PATRIOT ON THE LOOOOOOOSSSE!!!!!!!

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2005-10-05   10:42:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#11)

PATRIOT ON THE LOOOOOOOSSSE!!!!!!!

Are you a mental midget???

timetobuildaboat  posted on  2005-10-05   10:46:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: timetobuildaboat (#12)

No, I'm of average height why?

Been a long morning, watching and listening to various idiots in the media. I'm sorry if my programming is still intact, I'll do something about it after I take a dump, and get some coffee.

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2005-10-05   10:49:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#14)

Blah....blah...blah...(I've figured you out so no need for a response, dumbshit)

timetobuildaboat  posted on  2005-10-05   10:52:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#16. To: timetobuildaboat (#15)

I'm sorry, did you take your shill pills today or something? Why all the animosity? Seriously, what's the big fat bug up your behind?

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2005-10-05 10:54:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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