Students and Bodies Tracked Via RFID Tags

AT writes "The Brittan School District in Sutter County, California, is requiring students to carry RFID-tagged identity badges on them at all times. Readers are currently installed at the doors to all classrooms. Readers were removed from bathrooms when parents protested. The school district is meeting next week to consider parents objections to the system." Relatedly (but not), Leilah writes "The University of California is considering using RFID tags or bar codes to help track their collection of bodies and parts. They are attempting to reopen their body donation program which has been on hold since spring 2004 due to disappearing parts - they've previously had legal trouble over improper disposal as well."

Comments

Re:unbelieveably trolly and flamebaity.

[Anonymous Coward]

Why wouldn't society be better off without people who create children before they have any ability to care for those children? Fundamentally, they're child abusers because bringing a child into this world and pretty much guaranteeing that it has no chance at a decent life [for at least the first 18 years of its life] is abuse. So you don't hate child abusers?

stop being such a pussy - hate is a good thing. do you hate murders? do you hate child molestors? do you hate anyone?

Re:a rant....

[Jane_the_Great]

Is that what you got out of what I said? I was never advocating government taking over for parents - I was mad because parents are not doing their job and working with the school systems. Parents are actively preventing the school systems from functioning by challenging the way teachers are educating. If these parents don't like it, they should pull their kids from school since these are the same kids who are creating all the problems.

Please quote from my post where I suggested that the role of a parent should be replaced by the government.

you're living in a fantasy world

[cas2000]

> Taxing those guns, hell no. Paying for the
> inspection, hell no.

why the hell not? why should the civilised majority (who see no need to own guns) pay for you to indulge YOUR hobby?

as well as taxation (or permit fees) and inspection of guns, there should also be mandatory annual psychological tests. only the most stable of people should be allowed access to guns (and that includes cops - cops are a necessary evil, but they MUST understand that they are granted their legal powers in order to serve the public, not to rule them. not a common attitude amongst cops, i know, but it is the one thing that makes their existence tolerable).

> But telling the government that you do in fact
> own twenty rifles and help train your friends
> in civil insurgency? Sure. It'll keep them
> honest.

do americans actually believe rugged-individualist fantasy crap like that?

of course it won't keep them honest. it'll just mean they make sure they have enough firepower when they come to wipe you out. suicide by cop. or suicide by BATF. or the army. or the national guard. etc.

face it, armed revolution can not overthrow a modern, well-equipped state. it doesn't have even the faintest chance of doing so.

the only thing that does have a chance is the non-violent(*) refusal to participate - refuse to work, refuse to buy, refuse to consume anything beyond the requirements of survival (and, in extreme case, go on hunger strike). spend your time protesting and picketing and blockading.

if enough people refuse, lots of things can change. if not enough people do, then you have to at least consider the possibility that you're just another kook completely out of touch with reality (another possibility is that you are surrounded by bleating sheep- but since you believe that guns are necessary for solving political problems that isn't as likely as the first theory).

note also that civil disobedience is not a "get out of gaol free" card - do what you must to satisfy your conscience but be prepared to accept the consequences.

(*) you *must* take the moral high-ground, it is the only defence you have against the relentless propaganda you and your cause will be subject to in the mainstream media.