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FDA approves use of the Big Brother Implantable Chip
(Diedthra Henderson, AP, October 13, 2004)
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved an implantable computer chip that can pass a patient's medical details to doctors, speeding care. . . . VeriChips, radio frequency microchips the size of a grain of rice, have already been used to identify wayward pets and livestock. And nearly 200 people working in Mexico's attorney general's office have been implanted with chips to access secure areas containing sensitive documents. . . . Delray Beach, Fla.-based Applied Digital Solutions said it would give away $650 scanners to roughly 200 trauma centers around the nation to help speed its entry into the health care market. . . . The company is targeting patients with diabetes, chronic cardiac conditions, Alzheimer's disease and those who undergo complex treatments like chemotherapy, said Dr. Richard Seelig, Applied Digital Solutions' vice president of medical applications. . . . [COMMENT: I know it sounds outrageous to say this, but wouldn't Nazi Germany have loved to have these chips so they could more easily track the movements of the "weaker" members of their society?] . . . It's the first time the FDA has approved medical use of the device, though in Mexico, more than 1,000 scannable chips have been implanted in patients. The chip's serial number pulls up the patients' blood type and other medical information. . . . With the pinch of a syringe, the microchip is inserted under the skin in a procedure that takes less than 20 minutes and leaves no stitches. . . . Silently and invisibly, the dormant chip stores a code -- similar to the identifying UPC code on products sold in retail stores -- that releases patient-specific information when a scanner passes over the chip. . . . At the doctor's office those codes stamped onto chips, once scanned, would reveal such information as a patient's allergies and prior treatments. . . . The FDA in October 2002 said that the agency would regulate health care applications possible through VeriChip.

[COMMENT: So let's see now. The government can track our use of the Internet, our cell phone movements and calls, and reads every piece of our email in their Carnivore System. The next step seems to be to convince us that these chips will save our lives in an emergency. So I guess the Capitalist Elite think we wage slaves should all have ourselves happily injected with an RFID chip. This shit makes Orwell seem like a happy fairy tale. Parents, your children will never forgive you if you have them implanted with one of these medical tracking devices. The Echo Generation is our only hope, please don't wire them into Borg central without their mature consent.]

posted by LoZo 2:10 PM