Perilous
Times and The Mark Of The Beast
The
selling point for implanting biochips beneath your skin is that they
cannot be stolen.
By Jack Duggan
The selling point for implanting biochips
beneath your skin is that they cannot be stolen. They can be used to
access ATM’s, pay bills, sign contracts, verify your identity--all
without your wallet--and locate lost or kidnaped children. Should you,
yourself, become lost or disabled, a global array of satellites will
locate you, or any person who has been implanted with a SIB
(Subdermally Implanted Biochip) anywhere on the planet.
A SIB can contain
complete, valuable medical data about its
wearer, saving lives in trauma cases. It can also index the wearer’s
criminal record, voting record, party affiliation, and level of access
to government facilities and benefits, all without the wearer knowing
exactly what’s in there. Citizens will just have to take the
government’s word that everything is kosher.
Eventually, governments will insist that all
citizens have SIBs. You will not be able to use your bank, open home
utility accounts, nor sign contracts unless fitted with a SIB, for
‘security purposes.’
One day, your car won't start and you won't be
able to get a tow truck nor money to repair it because it your SIB chip
is not working. The bank’s ATM won’t accept your SIB’s code, yet you
see it accepting the SIB’s of other customers.
Your spouse will call from the grocery store,
saying her chip also isn’t working and she can’t buy food for the kids.
Once, stores accepted both cash and SIB’s, but by edict of the Federal
Reserve System, no one may use cash nor credit cards any more. All for
reasons of ‘national security’ of course.
After hours of begging a government agency for
an answer, it will turn out that a 20 year old clerk in Scumpond,
Mass., put a hold on your whole family’s chips because of an unpaid
parking ticket attributed to your vehicle’s license plate number.
You shout that you have never even been to
Scumpond, Mass., but it falls on deaf ears. You are told that you will
have to take the matter up with Ms. Dumklerk in person. You telephone
the Scumpond City Hall Department of Revenue from your neighbor's home,
as your own phone was just shut off because of your “criminal status.”
They tell you that Ms. Dumklerk is on a leave of absence, so you'll
just have to be patient until she returns. No one else can help you,
because Ms. Dumklerk encrypted access to all her files with her SIB
code, which is against procedure, but they never had time to train her
properly because they are underfunded and overworked.
You are told to call back in a four weeks, when
Ms. Dumclerk might be back from the rain forest. Sorry.
Unable to buy or sell, you turn to family,
friends and neighbors for aid. You need a car to get to work, food,
diapers, milk, a kerosene heater for your house and candles, since the
electric is shut off.
Your parents try to help, but they are
immediately warned at the cash-less register in the store that they are
not allowed to exceed their “fair share” in purchasing food and
hardware for an elderly couple, which has already been calculated by
the U.S. Department of Earth First. Sadly, they give you what little
excess they had in their pantry, but it will only help your family for
a few days. Ditto for your few friends and neighbors. After
surrendering their small hordes, most give excuses, because they know
what it means to fall under the scrutiny of the government for
exceeding their “fair share” of the planet’s resources, as
scientifically defined by U.C. Berkeley.
After two weeks, the baby is whining for milk,
the children are begging for food and your wife can't stop crying. You
no longer can use a phone to call Scumpond. Your neighbor just told you
that his telephone is off limits, since you caused it to exceed the
time allotment authorized by the U.S. Department of Communications
Conservation. He is now himself under resource scrutiny.
Desperate, with no options left, you remember
the old unregistered pistol buried beneath your bedroom floorboards.
Never in your life did you think you would stoop this low, but the baby
is now screaming non-stop.