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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."
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Perhaps Michelle Tatro might want to get a little education herself. You have no right to privacy in a public school system. To believe that children have a right to privacy is to show a fundamental lack of understanding of what rights a citizen has in a public space. Furthermore, this is indicative of the larger problem facing public schools in the United States. Parents are no longer on the side of teachers and the administration. It is a battle with the parents believing that their child can do no wrong and everyone is out to get that child. The problem is that when parents complain about a teacher being strict with students, the administration crumbles and the teacher loses all authority in the eyes of the students. All this, to avoid law suits. Parents who think Little Johnny is an angel, would never do anything wrong, and the reason he can't read or write is because the teachers are not doing their job [not because the parents offer no reinforcement or punishment for a child who refuses to take part in his or her role in the education system] are the root cause of the failing education system. Be fearful and send your children to private institutions.On a personal note, I know someone who works in an inner city school and the stories I hear are simply awful. People who have no business being within a mile of children are spawning at unhealthy rates. This is for a number of reasons but one is because there is a culture in this country that seeks not to judge anyone. Well guess what - I will. If you're a single mother, you made a mistake. I don't support your decision and I think the world would be a better place if abortions were forced upon you. Just the other night I saw on the news a 19 year old girl who had 3 children and was being brought up on child neglect charges. It is simply sickening. Society, as a whole, needs to tell these swine that if you have that many children and that young of an age, you are the scum of the Earth and the planet would be better off without you. I am sick and tired of supporting someone else's mistake. And of course, those 3 children will grow up to either steal my car, have children they can't support just like their mother, or both.
GO forth and judge others.
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Just wondered...
stop being such a pussy - hate is a good thing. do you hate murders? do you hate child molestors? do you hate anyone?
> 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.