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Homeless to be Implanted with Subdermal RFID Tags

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-about-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Politech has the scoop on the Bush administration's plans to forcibly implant RFID tags into homeless people in participating U.S. cities. Here's an excerpt from the UPI article: "The miniscule RFID tags are no larger than a matchstick and will be implanted subdermally, meaning under the skin. Data from RFID tracking stations mounted on telephone poles will be transmitted to police and social service workers, who will use custom Windows NT software to track movements of the homeless in real time... A second phase of the project, scheduled to be completed in early 2005, will wirelessly transmit live information on the locations of homeless people to handheld computers running the Windows CE operating system.""

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  1. Phase 3 by HenryKoren · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The Bush administration has announced Phase 3 of their plan: The final solution. The homeless will be herded onto trains and shipped to texas for "free showers". Bush had but one word to say about phase 3 of his plan: "Profit"

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  2. Tag the homeless! by JonMartin · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    This is great! We can finally get an idea of how many homeless people there actually are. How do we know there aren't just a few who are really mobile?

    And we can plot their migration patterns:

    welfare...
    liquor store...
    welfare...
    liquor store...
    welfare...

    (shamelessly ripped from Glen Foster)

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  3. Land of the free by vandan · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    a high-tech, minimally-intrusive way for the government to lift our citizens away from the twin perils of poverty and crime

    Sure. Maybe social a social security system would be a better way to achieve this? Homeless people aren't criminals, and last time I checked the onus of proof was supposed to be on the prosecution. Why not do a trial on politicians? I think the voters have a right to know who our leaders are mixing with more than the police have a right to know where the homeless people are finding shelter.

    Yet another one of Bush's wars on the defenseless.

    Oh yeah. And the US government is in no position to be lecturing us on crimes...
  4. This is mild for Bush by samantha · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    The man who has brought us unending war (and got cheered for it!), has pushed through $250 billion boondoggle of a unnecessary embroilment in Iraq, wants to amend the Constitution to ban gays from some normal rights forever, gave a huge tax break to all his buds while driving the deficit out of sight, wants to name American citizens enemy combatants without trial or counsel is not capable of tagging the homeless? Exactly what would he have to do that *would* convince you he is capable of this and much worse?

    When it happens it will not be just the homeless though. Beep, BEEP!

  5. Re:BZZZZT! by Echo+Green · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Uh, Bush isnt a (to use your flame speach) "fundie", he just enjoys playing them for votes. Over all, he hasnt really done any thing that makes him better than the alternitive.

    heh, Kerrey probaly voted for this to, right before he voted against it!

    And we all remember when dean called himself a "christian", right? Turns out a google search showed up so 100 odd quotes of him saying god, in uhem, ungodly phrases!

    Can you give me one reason to vote FOR Kerry and not just AGAINST Bush?