RFID . . . The Flea in 2006.
The RFID debate slows down, as the benefits of the so-called Spy Chip are acknowledged. Hostilities cease, both sides shake hands and the RFID Movement takes two steps forward and one step back. For some who are a little slow, that means the RFID Chip is making progress against our protests.
The chief argument generally made against the microbial Radio Frequency Identification Chip is that it is prying and dissolves our privacy. This is not precise.
We lost our personal privacy long ago to ambition (a combination of commercial interest and official Potomac Fever), indifference (nobody cares about our identity en route to their goals), and infighting (nobody’s noticing because they’re too busy self-dealing).
The RFID Movement is not so much a threat to our privacy as it is to our sovereignty, the guarantee of the Constitution of the United States and the heart of our way of life. What you might call our true wealth in America. Eroding our sovereignty is to destroy the legal and spiritual core of our resistance to adversity. It is a transfer of wealth.
Can a new high-technology flea undermine the United States?
Yes. Of course it can.
Earlier, I wrote: What If We Say No To RFID? The question is being answered every day by the progress of the industry against our wishes. You have your answer as more than sufficient evidence that the Movement intends to ram it down our throats.
This is important. Privacy is not that big a deal, unless it is violated and abused. We surrender a great deal daily and say nothing. What someone knows about you – if unused – is powerless and inconsequential. However, abuse it through some sort of stalking weaponization or costly conversion and the culprit may not even be identified, much less brought to justice. If you like Identity Theft, you’ll love RFID.
The crime is not in violating one’s privacy – the crime is in violating an individual’s sovereignty. This is what we normally refer to as Civil Rights. The RFID Movement threatens our right to be secure in our papers, as one argument I can imagine. Certainly secure in our person, as our person is identified to be our clothing, our freedom of movement, etc. The threat is that when we said No, they walked right over us throughout 2005.
In short, when we say No – whether we comprehend the benefits or know absolutely nothing about the subject – we have still said No. When that’s not good enough, our sovereignty is stomped. This is the threat of RFID – when the Flea gets on you – on your person, on your credit card, U.S. Passport, membership ticket, new clothing, books – after you’ve said No, your sovereignty is ignored.
In America, you don't need to prove anything or know anything about the issue: in America, saying No is reason enough.
The day saying No isn't enough, our personal sovereignty is in trouble.
That day has already dawned. It’s about 8 a.m.
[Civil Safeguards? Seems they’ve found a way around that. (The They is any commercial, law enforcement, foreign or political interests who benefit from the Flea against your wishes or knowledge.) When you take delivery of a new car, an RFID chip is in the ignition key. Your gasoline Pass has a chip in it. You’ve used it and approved it so that the Movement can rub your nose in the fact that you use RFID throughout your day without objection. I believe the more truthful statement would be that you’ve used it without informed consent. The Movement is committing you as a sovereign American to the acceptance of the Chip in ways you never agreed to, but used only because it was surreptitiously inserted into your lifestyle.]
What does this tell you about a movement that says it will move ahead when it can document that you accept it? If it's surreptitiously inserted into your lifestyle, have you really accepted it?
And this is important: abuse, mistake and retaliation are all too well within the power of the most insignificant drone anywhere in the system handling personal data, especially more elaborate personal data now. Being able to lay their hands on that kind of quality information as the Flea is perfectly capable of containing then disgorging is to be able to hold every single individual hostage. The drone can copy the information and sell it, and nobody will ever know it was him.
This is too much power to grant to anonymous persons. It's too much to grant period!
Safeguards against this are, of course, impossible. Anyone who says that the Flea is safe is out of touch with reality, as no one can guarantee the actions of others, including IT professionals.
One of the most significant reports on the subject is, as I wrote previously, the refusal of RFID supporter and boardmember of the VeriChip Corporation Tommy Thompson to allow his own Flea to be implanted in him or his family members.
It is not enough to go along with the Movement and then ask that it be regulated – it needs to be outlawed, as there are thousands and thousands of applications for RFID Chips. Our protests so far are already ignored. Addessing your ignition key isn't even a beginning of inquiry or examination.
America is not a place, it is an Idea. Integral to that Idea is our individual sovereignty, and the RFID Chip threatens that sovereignty by dint of the Flea’s not being stopped in 2005, if even for debate and examination.
It won’t be stopped in 2006, either.
Isn’t this a preponderance of proof that the RFID Movement is going to have its way?
Make that 8:05 a.m.
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John Longenecker is author of Transfer Of Wealth – The Case For Nationwide Concealed Carry, now available worldwide.
The chief argument generally made against the microbial Radio Frequency Identification Chip is that it is prying and dissolves our privacy. This is not precise.
We lost our personal privacy long ago to ambition (a combination of commercial interest and official Potomac Fever), indifference (nobody cares about our identity en route to their goals), and infighting (nobody’s noticing because they’re too busy self-dealing).
The RFID Movement is not so much a threat to our privacy as it is to our sovereignty, the guarantee of the Constitution of the United States and the heart of our way of life. What you might call our true wealth in America. Eroding our sovereignty is to destroy the legal and spiritual core of our resistance to adversity. It is a transfer of wealth.
Can a new high-technology flea undermine the United States?
Yes. Of course it can.
Earlier, I wrote: What If We Say No To RFID? The question is being answered every day by the progress of the industry against our wishes. You have your answer as more than sufficient evidence that the Movement intends to ram it down our throats.
This is important. Privacy is not that big a deal, unless it is violated and abused. We surrender a great deal daily and say nothing. What someone knows about you – if unused – is powerless and inconsequential. However, abuse it through some sort of stalking weaponization or costly conversion and the culprit may not even be identified, much less brought to justice. If you like Identity Theft, you’ll love RFID.
The crime is not in violating one’s privacy – the crime is in violating an individual’s sovereignty. This is what we normally refer to as Civil Rights. The RFID Movement threatens our right to be secure in our papers, as one argument I can imagine. Certainly secure in our person, as our person is identified to be our clothing, our freedom of movement, etc. The threat is that when we said No, they walked right over us throughout 2005.
In short, when we say No – whether we comprehend the benefits or know absolutely nothing about the subject – we have still said No. When that’s not good enough, our sovereignty is stomped. This is the threat of RFID – when the Flea gets on you – on your person, on your credit card, U.S. Passport, membership ticket, new clothing, books – after you’ve said No, your sovereignty is ignored.
In America, you don't need to prove anything or know anything about the issue: in America, saying No is reason enough.
The day saying No isn't enough, our personal sovereignty is in trouble.
That day has already dawned. It’s about 8 a.m.
[Civil Safeguards? Seems they’ve found a way around that. (The They is any commercial, law enforcement, foreign or political interests who benefit from the Flea against your wishes or knowledge.) When you take delivery of a new car, an RFID chip is in the ignition key. Your gasoline Pass has a chip in it. You’ve used it and approved it so that the Movement can rub your nose in the fact that you use RFID throughout your day without objection. I believe the more truthful statement would be that you’ve used it without informed consent. The Movement is committing you as a sovereign American to the acceptance of the Chip in ways you never agreed to, but used only because it was surreptitiously inserted into your lifestyle.]
What does this tell you about a movement that says it will move ahead when it can document that you accept it? If it's surreptitiously inserted into your lifestyle, have you really accepted it?
And this is important: abuse, mistake and retaliation are all too well within the power of the most insignificant drone anywhere in the system handling personal data, especially more elaborate personal data now. Being able to lay their hands on that kind of quality information as the Flea is perfectly capable of containing then disgorging is to be able to hold every single individual hostage. The drone can copy the information and sell it, and nobody will ever know it was him.
This is too much power to grant to anonymous persons. It's too much to grant period!
Safeguards against this are, of course, impossible. Anyone who says that the Flea is safe is out of touch with reality, as no one can guarantee the actions of others, including IT professionals.
One of the most significant reports on the subject is, as I wrote previously, the refusal of RFID supporter and boardmember of the VeriChip Corporation Tommy Thompson to allow his own Flea to be implanted in him or his family members.
It is not enough to go along with the Movement and then ask that it be regulated – it needs to be outlawed, as there are thousands and thousands of applications for RFID Chips. Our protests so far are already ignored. Addessing your ignition key isn't even a beginning of inquiry or examination.
America is not a place, it is an Idea. Integral to that Idea is our individual sovereignty, and the RFID Chip threatens that sovereignty by dint of the Flea’s not being stopped in 2005, if even for debate and examination.
It won’t be stopped in 2006, either.
Isn’t this a preponderance of proof that the RFID Movement is going to have its way?
Make that 8:05 a.m.
________________________________
John Longenecker is author of Transfer Of Wealth – The Case For Nationwide Concealed Carry, now available worldwide.
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