I don’t.
But, if I did, I’d waste no time in publicly taking the Flea.
Yes, I’m out of line when I call the RFID Chip The Flea, so sue me.
I’ve written, What If We Say No To RFID? and other pieces pointing to the industry’s stomping on our rights after it had announced that RFID would not penetrate American society without the approval of the People. One RFID advocate argued benefits with me while I argued sovereignty and the right to decline the damned thing, and when he couldn’t comprehend my sovereignty argument, he finally typed in caps, “WELL, IT’S COMING AND YOU CAN’T STOP IT!!!!! Yes, I get those.
So, what the industry calls approval is actually a bad faith, stealth activity of inserting the Flea into our lifestyle without our knowledge.
Understand that many, many articles announce the market penetration of the Flea. [Set up your own search engine Alert Program for keyword RFID and you’ll be able to receive e-mails throughout the day on that keyword every time a news item hits the Internet for an interesting perspective of the RFID industry’s thinking, their plans, the findings of investigators and all sorts of useful information. It’s terrific! Instead of chasing down information, it comes to you.]
But what I haven’t harped on is this: why aren’t the Board Of Directors, staffers, managers and employees in the United States Manufacturers taking the chip? I’m sorry, why aren’t they taking the Flea?
If I sold Pepsi, and I’m speaking only for myself here, I’d drink the product. I’d own stock. I’d wear Pepsi T-shirts, and I’d give it as wedding presents and donate it to the church.
Well, maybe not wear T-shirts, but I’d believe in the product and say so. I believe in America and I say so.
Which brings me to the suspicion of why they don’t take the thing.
A few articles ago, I spelled out conditions under which the industry could probably catapult their public image forward without the need for stealth tactics; [Stealth tactics betray an anticipation of opposition: As my mother used to say when I was a little boy, "You know you're wrong, or you wouldn't be looking at me."]
Higher management – if it believes it has an honest benefit – must take the chip at a media-covered event, a chip that contains legitimate personal information. The chip has to be a perfectly conventional chip with any or none of the safeties any other chip proposed for public consumption would have, and the chip has to be readable by me for verification of good faith compliance, and not fooling the inspectors, so to speak. Any report that the chip was implanted at an earlier date in secret and indwelling all along would not be a credible statement, as merely be consistent with the tactics so far.
That RFID Chip would have to contain legitimate personal data if it is to demonstrate it’s very purpose of, say, emergency medical benefits or national security, or any benefits claimed. After all, any medicine, for instance, taken by manufacturers has to be safe and effective and identical to that manufactured for public consumption. Since this device is not a cure for something the recipient doen’t suffer from, it ought to be implanted as safe.
With my own Internet Keyword Alerts in place, I have seen no news on any big shots taking implantation of the Flea.
Probably won’t either.
For the millions of dollars spent on selling the thing to America, the industry can easily unwind it all by refusing to take one for themselves. Personally.
And soon.
Now, there have been volunteers who have taken an RFID Chip implantation. I got that news, but volunteers are not even close to the clear and convincing evidence of good faith – or any faith at all – of the owners of the company, and I mean all of them, from the Board Of Directors right down to the box boy.
Alright, let the box boys off the hook. The question is why the muckie-mucks won’t take the device.
If I loved Pepsi, I’d drink it. I do love Pepsi, and I drink it.
When it comes to believing in the Flea for everyone but Thee, it’s more a case of drinking the kool-aid. It’s probably not what they believe about their product, but what they know. And fear.
As my alerts will furnish me with any Internet news at all about RFID, what’s shown up lately is the idea of viral interference with the Flea, like a virus plagues your computer. And why not? How is any electronic logic circuit immune? Maybe they can infect RFID and maybe they can’t.
But what happens when the Flea is improved to become a more sophisticated logic circuit as human implantation becomes more and more compulsory? (And it will.) Maybe today’s Fleas aren’t complex enough to be subject to virus, but they will be more complex in the future, as the benefits of human implantation become more sophisticated, as applications/uses broaden in scope, and as the chip designs become more and more technically possible.
Other reports from within the industry, not necessarily opposed to the Flea, have the chip subject to hacking, so that your data can be downloaded by others for, shall we say, unwelcome applications, such as identity theft, blackmail and extortion, and just plain harassment. As I’ve said previously, when readers can discover how much milkfat you consume, it will no longer be a matter of learning who and what you are, but people now telling you what you ought to be. (You ought to be eating less milkfat, you ought to be more responsive to your social resonsibilities of staying healthy… How would you like that? As if it’s not happening now..)
There are reports of increasing the readability range of the unit by modifying the reader with a high-gain antenna.
Of course, with data sharing, as I’ve written, your chip would be readable worldwide.
Any one of these defects or weaknesses in the very concept of human implantation of RFID could be why the company managers refuse to take their own chip.
You see, the apprehension of the liberty enthusiasts over the chip is not so much how a flea threatens our sovereignty today in 2006, but in the future, perhaps sooner than you might think.
At present, RFID is not regulated. Purists might say that regulation itself is not a liberty value, that the market should decide, but it doesn’t work when you’re using your sovereignty to have your market say-so ( in choice or refusal) and it’s disrespected thoroughly. [Control in the market of ideas is possible only when your position is respected, or counted as a vote: this whole argument against the intrusive RFID chip is about respecting your right to refuse, or to vote, you might say, with your acceptance or your objections.] When your sovereignty is disrespected so, the market doesn’t decide anything; the marketers are doing all the deciding, freezing you out.
When they [market officials and ugly little activists] say that it’s coming and we can’t do anything about it, it’s an expression of a deep hostility to our way of life, make no mistake.
Congress critters is the route. Congress will be lobbied by the RFID Industry if it isn’t already compromised, sort of like NAFTA did, another stroke of genius.
In the final analysis, you either have your sovereignty or you don’t.
Right or wrong, we have the right to refuse them. Industry and elected officials may be ten times smarter than the rest of us, and perhaps in touch with info we don’t know, but it doesn’t matter; all that matters is that they take orders from us.
If officials remember who they work for – constituents and not industry – and if they act on our sovereignty and not the wishes of industry, it would be a positive sign that our sovereignty is still intact. Right about now, we could all use that.
The RFID debate is an excellent test of our sovereignty.
Like taking charge of the ports scandal, right or wrong, it is we who are in charge.
That’s as it should be, because it’s good for the country.
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John Longenecker is author of Transfer of Wealth – The Case for Nationwide Concealed Carry, available everywhere. His website is www.transferofwealth.net
