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Title: VeriChip [RFID] keeps track of Katrina's victims
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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: 308
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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#1. To: Fred Mertz (#0)
The conditioning of the sheep continues unabated......
Are we but an organic computer influenced by our environment to desire one set of neuropeptides over another, equating into competition for self worth on a primitive level never realized by the shallow and self empowering.
"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. "If the technology were affordable, assigning numbers to the corpses and then writing those numbers in a notebook or spreadsheet program might work too.." he added.
"When the government FEARS the People, there is liberty, but when the People fear the government, there is tyranny."
I actually owned this stock at .50 cents a share. I sold it too early. Once it received FDA approval, it went to $5 dollars plus. I don't want to know the going price now :(
In a macabre sort of way the music I am listening to is so fitting it's scary. Grateful Dead is going full speed ahead with a little Casey Jones
Are we but an organic computer influenced by our environment to desire one set of neuropeptides over another, equating into competition for self worth on a primitive level never realized by the shallow and self empowering.
Rest assured it was planned this way JT. Don't know if that helps you any...
I thins so, robin. It serves me right for trying to score off the globalists. But I knew that frekin chip was going to be used, whether I invested or not.
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.
#2. To: Fred Mertz (#0)
Harrison County Coroner Gary T. Hargrove said the chips have been a boon to the Disaster Mortuary Operational Recovery Team he oversees.
#3. To: Fred Mertz (#0)
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
I actually owned this stock at .50 cents a share. I sold it too early. Once it received FDA approval, it went to $5 dollars plus. I don't want to know the going price now :(
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
#6. To: robin (#5)
#7. To: Fred Mertz (#0)
 | So many morons, so few bullets. |
#8. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#7)
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
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?
Are we but an organic computer influenced by our environment to desire one set of neuropeptides over another, equating into competition for self worth on a primitive level never realized by the shallow and self empowering.
#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.
| So many morons, so few bullets. |
#10. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#9)
.No guarantee on the Gauss magnet, but a faraday cage, maybe.
After I get the chip, I get one of those little Gauss magnets, and put it over the chip. Problem solved. SO FUCKING SIMPLE.
Are we but an organic computer influenced by our environment to desire one set of neuropeptides over another, equating into competition for self worth on a primitive level never realized by the shallow and self empowering.
#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!!!!!!!
| So many morons, so few bullets. |
#12. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#11)
Are you a mental midget???
PATRIOT ON THE LOOOOOOOSSSE!!!!!!!
Are we but an organic computer influenced by our environment to desire one set of neuropeptides over another, equating into competition for self worth on a primitive level never realized by the shallow and self empowering.
#13. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#9)
Come on, at least pretent to protect your status as a premier "cock sucker".
Are we but an organic computer influenced by our environment to desire one set of neuropeptides over another, equating into competition for self worth on a primitive level never realized by the shallow and self empowering.
#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.
| So many morons, so few bullets. |
#15. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#14)
Blah....blah...blah...(I've figured you out so no need for a response, dumbshit)
Are we but an organic computer influenced by our environment to desire one set of neuropeptides over another, equating into competition for self worth on a primitive level never realized by the shallow and self empowering.
#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?
| So many morons, so few bullets. |
#17. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#16)
Wake up son, this gives you away.....
what's the big fat bug up your behind?
Are we but an organic computer influenced by our environment to desire one set of neuropeptides over another, equating into competition for self worth on a primitive level never realized by the shallow and self empowering.
#18. To: timetobuildaboat (#17)
First off, I aint your son. Second, you obviously have no idea who you're talking to. If you knew anything about me, you'd be apologizing for your idiocy. But hey, if you wanna expose your idiocy, feel free.
| So many morons, so few bullets. |
#19. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#18)
No response heh? You are naked in terms of defense....... Oh! So sorry.......
Are we but an organic computer influenced by our environment to desire one set of neuropeptides over another, equating into competition for self worth on a primitive level never realized by the shallow and self empowering.
#20. To: timetobuildaboat (#19)
And I should be defensive why??? What should I defend myself against? Apparently I've missed your point or something.
| So many morons, so few bullets. |
#21. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#20)
Ahhhhh! I may be off base. Growth is well within your grasp. :)
Apparently I've missed your point or something.
Are we but an organic computer influenced by our environment to desire one set of neuropeptides over another, equating into competition for self worth on a primitive level never realized by the shallow and self empowering.
#22. To: timetobuildaboat (#21)
You know, I re-read all the things we've posted. I still missed the post where it says you get to be an asshole to me for no reason. Again... I must lack the ability to read subtleties, or innuendos that give you carte blanche, to be a moron.
| So many morons, so few bullets. |
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