In view is WFLA News Channel 8 reporter Melanie Michael’s article, “Tracking kids via microchip,” May 17, 2016 AD.
Firstly, there is the scare tactic and stressed out tactic which realistic as it is (as it makes us empathize and is based on truth) is a scare tactic nevertheless and in fact, that is the point:
…life is busier than ever…has her hands full…an emergency can happen in a matter of seconds…a toddler wandered into a pond and drowned…good parents have bad things happen…she’s had that “panic” moment…You turn your head for one split second…and your child is nowhere to be found…It feels like it last forever. Your heart is racing…you think of the worst thing possible…did someone take my child…I panicked. It is every parents nightmare…She would be gone, and we would never see her again…is prone to wandering off…Sheer panic, sheer panic…gut wrenching, sickening feeling…Her biggest fear…could save my daughter’s life…bring her back safely to me…unfortunate circumstances. I feel terrible…
One featured mom stated:
I think Microchipping, is a good thing…If a small chip the size of a grain of rice could have prevented a tragedy, I think most parents would have said, I think I would have done it…Micro-chipping would be an extra layer of protection, if something bad does happen.
Secondly, note the reference to the size of the microchip, “the size of a grain of rice” we are then told of “a tiny informational device” and again, “A tiny implant, the size of a grain of rice” as if size matters: this is a case of out of sight, supposedly out of mind.
Another mom stated:
You’re putting a battery in your kid, you’re putting a chip in your kid. And, where does it stop? Where? It’s going too far. This is a child we’re talking about…I just feel like it’s a little too much of other people being able to watch what’s going on.
Third, there is the authoritarianism—this guy is, like, smart and stuff so, like, what he says goes; he says it, I believe it so by golly it must be true. Reference is made to a certain “Longtime engineer, Stuart Lipoff, is based out of Boston” who is “well known in the electronics industry” and he asserts that “Without question” microchipping people “could save lives” which is not the issue, by the way.
He also notes that “the technology is already here, and it’s been around since the early 90s…testing is being done right now. The military is not only testing this out…It’s not a matter of if it will happen, but when.” Well, that it is here, being done, inevitable, etc. is not the issue, by the way: the issue is whether is should be done.
He also points out that, for example, “the technology is actually something we come into contact with and use every day” as we “utilize a microchip every time they get into their cars” and he “compares the microchip to a Sunpass [highway toll paying system].” Yes, and I am using microchips as I type this but it is a non sequitur that I should therefore not be concerned about the various issue related to having such a component implanted into my body. I also use gasoline in my car but do not want it in my body.
Well now, the second mom quoted above got to many people’s bottom line which she stated as, “someone on the outside, someone who’s not supposed to be keeping track of her child, could hack into the trackable device.” Yet, this is much ado about nothing and nothing to see here according to Stuart Lipoff.
He was specifically asked “about the ‘big brother’ concept…Would people be watching every move a person makes? The answer, Lipoff tells us, is no. He points out that GPS tracking would not be possible because it can’t penetrate the skin.”
Wait, what?
Actually, what happens within the article is that we are told that “Micro-chipping would be an extra layer of protection, if something bad does happen…could have prevented a tragedy…microchipping not only children, but even those suffering from Alzheimer’s, could save lives. ‘Without question’” but we are not told how. Apparently, the point is to react emotively—the children, think of the children!!!
Well, if GPS tracking would not be possible then, pray tell, what is the purpose of the device in the first place?!?!? I thought that the very purpose was to track lost or kidnapped children and wayward personages with Alzheimer’s etc. Halfway through the article we finally find out what the microchip does, “if a child or an Alzheimer’s patient were discovered, all it would take would be swiping that person’s arm or wrist with a device deigned to read the chip,” as per Stuart Lipoff and here comes the emotive appeal (zoom in with the camera to catch the tears rolling across the cheek), “This could reunited child with his or her parents or an Alzheimer’s patients with loved ones. It could truly saved lives.”
This is, of course, even though the article was titled “Tracking kids via microchip” and not “Swiping kids, if and only if, they are ever found via microchips.”
So, it is admitted then: the microchip is only useful if, and only if, “a child or an Alzheimer’s patient were discovered”—period. Now, when enough people realize this then a GPS chip will be the next must have or else you must not care about children thing to have. Have you noticed yourself having to constantly upgrade your cell phone and other such devices? Well, it is the very same issue here: from microchip to GPS to what nanobots which would reconfigure DNA, control your brain, what?
In fact, Stuart Lipoff himself appeals to the slippery slope, “When barcodes first came out in the late 1960s, people were appalled. They were wary of them and did not understand the concept” or did understand the concept and disapproved “Today, it is so commonplace, we don’t even notice it. A microchip would work much in the same way.”
Sure, barcode yesterday, microchip today, mark of the beast tomorrow—you know, no big deal.
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Lipoff also notes that since “People are simply not ready” then “a ‘major corporation…’ would need to be behind a project of this nature to hone the technology for the masses.” Just like some people must have the latest tech and look down on those who do not, such tech implants will be the next hip thing to do with celebrity endorsements and putting down of the hoi polloi. Thus, Stuart Lipoff notes, “The idea is there. Technology is there. It will take people accepting the idea and a company behind it to make it work. And, it will definitely happen.”
Also Lipoff, an engineer mind you, is given a platform from which to offer health advice, “He advises people not to be afraid of the health risks, stating that they’re virtually are none.” Well, I am glad to know that an engineer can speak, sight unseen, for the specific and unique health factors pertaining to millions upon millions of people.
Lastly, note that the first mom quoted above takes a pragmatic approach which leads to her making an ethical proclamation, “I always tell people as long as you’re doing what is best for your child, you’re not really wrong.” Note that what she is really stating is that “as long as you’re doing what” you have subjectively decided “is best for your child, you’re not really wrong.”
Based on the emotive nature of articles such as Melanie Michael’s then another slope will be to go from subjectively doing what is best for your child to being told what is best and having it being mandated.
For related reading, see my article on a school that is making students carry RFID chips on badges and Succinct thoughts on the Mark of the Beast – 666
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