Known as the VeriChip, it is a microchip that is implanted under a person's skin, and then scanned with a special reader device to reveal important medical data about that person.
Applied Digital, the Florida-based company that makes the VeriChip, hopes the implant will revolutionize how doctors obtain medical information, particularly in emergency situations. Theoretically, if a person can't speak, medics could scan that person and quickly be linked to a database that would provide crucial information like the patient's identity, blood type and drug allergies.
Dr. Csaba Magassi, a plastic surgeon in Northern Virginia, is among a nationwide network of doctors who are ready and waiting to implant the VeriChip into willing patients. His office receives calls daily from people inquiring about the chip.
Dr. Magassi said, "If you are in an auto accident, [and] you are unconscious, they could scan you, know exactly who you are; your medical history can easily be printed out onto the hospital record."
Dr. Magassi added, "If a patient comes in requesting the VeriChip, I usually tell them it takes between two and five minutes to place the device in place. A needle which contains the VeriChip is inserted. The needle pushes the device through, and it is implanted permanently. Put a bandaid on and you are done."
Dr. Magassi demonstrated the procedure for CBN News on an apple. Once the microchip was inserted, the hand-held scanner read the number on the chip using radio frequency waves. Think of it as a human barcode. [Ed., More like an undesired virus!]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the VeriChip implant for medical use in humans in October, a huge victory for Applied Digital.
In an effort to jumpstart interest, the company launched the "Get Chipped" campaign. It is offering a discount to the first few hundred people who get the implant, and also plans to donate hundreds of scanners to the nation's trauma units to promote use of the VeriChip.
But in a letter obtained by CBN News from the FDA to the VeriChip makers, the microchip is not completely safe. In fact, the letter lists a whole host of health risks associated with the device, including "adverse tissue reaction," "electrical hazards" and "MRI incompatibility."
Applied Digital and the Food and Drug Administration refused our requests for an interview to discuss these risks. [Ed., Those morally bankrupt, greedy 'money grubbers,' should be run out of town, permanently!]
Consumer privacy advocate Katherine Albrecht said, "There are millions of people that have read the press reports about all the positives of this technology, but really have no idea about its dangers."
Albrecht strongly opposes the VeriChip for the physical risks it poses, as well as, the privacy risks. She has been called "the Erin Brokovich of RFID chips."
On her Web site, www.spychips.com, Albrecht reveals the potential dangers of the VeriChip and other radio frequency identification methods.
Albrecht said, "There's a very serious concern that, already, engineers and people who think along those lines are already thinking like hackers and criminals -- they're already starting to say, how can this system be compromised, how can it be abused? When you are dealing with a radio frequency device, by design, it is transmitting info using invisible radio waves at a distance. In this case, that distance is only a couple of inches or a couple of feet so it’s not a huge distance, but it means that anyone who can get within a couple of inches or a few feet of you, even with a reader device they have hidden in a backpack or a purse, would be able to scan that number, obtain that info and potentially duplicate it."
[Ed., The second after you get chipped, they'll be able to say, "Hah, we gotcha, sucker!" You'll lose your last precious freedom, the right to move around freely without being tracked like an animal/criminal. Everything you do will eventually be questioned and subject to someone else's sense of morality or lack of it. You will be their slave for whatever evil purpose they eventually concoct.]
And it is not just private medical information at stake. The microchip implant technology has been around for several years now, and has been used for a variety of different applications.
Thousands of chips have been implanted in pets by veterinarians for identification purposes. Livestock is now chipped to track things like mad-cow disease. Manufacturers are putting chips in products like clothing and shoes for marketing research.
Related News Insert - Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Mexico's Bionic Attorney General
Dave sez: El Universal (Mexico City) is reporting that the Attorney General of Mexico, Rafael Macedo de la Concha, had a microchip inserted under the skin of one of his arms to give him access to a new crime database and also enable him to be traced if he is ever abducted. [Ed., What if the criminals use it to trace him so they can abduct him easier? ;) ] Bloomberg news added "about 160 Mexican officials will carry the microchip" and that "the chip can't be removed, but will be deactivated after Macedo's term as attorney general expires." Link; posted by Mark Frauenfelder at 01:40:53 PM
In March, Mexican authorities broke up a ring of used-car salesmen turned kidnappers who were known as "Los Chips" because they searched their victims to detect whether they were carrying the chips to help them be located.
In Spain at the Baja Beach Club, patrons can get a microchip with their financial information implanted, so they can pay for their cocktails with a swipe of the arm. As these pictures seem to suggest, 'getting chipped' is fun and *painless. (*see comment below)
Applied Digital also launched a brand new application for the chip last year called the "VeriPay." This implant would hold all of a person's financial information. Rather than swipe a card or pay cash, consumers would scan their wrists for purchases. And, if a swipe of the wrist becomes too troublesome, there are already prototypes made of doorway portals that can simply scan a person and their purchases as they walk through the door. [Ed., Don't be shocked when you get a bill later with charges on it you didn't approve but acquired simply by walking through some department store door! Who will believe you when it comes down to the store's hard-copy record versus your verbal, unsubstantiated protest?]
Allbrecht said, "I think there is a very real concern that, down the road, such a chip would become mandatory. And not necessarily initially, but it would be voluntary, in the same way let’s say as credit cards or a drivers license is voluntary. No one forces you to have a driver’s license or to have a cell phone, but yet the vast majority of people do, because it is very difficult to function in a normal society without it. [Ed., You can be sure the screws will be tightened over time to make it impossible for you to function without it, thus making it mandatory becomes the next step."
For now, though, a microchip implant is voluntary. Only a few thousand chips have been sold and only a fraction of those have been implanted in humans. [Ed., wouldn't it be wiser to stop it now than wait until some diehard, power-crazed politician makes it mandatory?]
For someone who wants an implant for medical purposes, Dr. Magassi and others are standing by. Magassi says, "If they want it, God *love ‘em. I'll put it in. It's as simple as that."
The VeriChip just recently made its debut in a Miami, Florida nightclub, where patrons had the opportunity to "Get Chipped," much like the Baja Beach club patrons in Spain. [Ed., It won't be long until they get tired of dancing to the pain from the sores it creates that won't let them sleep! I wonder what they'll name the tune to that dance routine; i.e., "igotcha cha cha?"]
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Shirley, SAK2U

[Dr.] Magassi says, 'If they want it, God *love ‘em. I'll put it in. It's as simple as that.
As the song goes, "what's *love got to do with it?" Contrary to what Dr. Magassi says, God warned in no uncertain terms that He will reject for eternity those who take the mark of the beast on their forehead or in their hand because doing so will certify allegiance to the beast and thus, opposition to God. Here's what God said about it:


"And there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image...they gnawed their tongues for pain.. and blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their pains and their sores..." Rev. 16:2, 10, 11.

"If any man receives the mark of the beast in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God...and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone...

and the smoke of their torment ascends up forever and ever: and they have no rest day or night who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name." -- Rev. 14:9-11] It can't be any clearer a warning than that!

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