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August 13, 2007

Human Tracking Must Be Stopped

I was dismayed this morning when I read that China is launching a massive and thorough human tracking system in the city of Shenzhen, where 12.4 million people will be issued cards containing computer chips with tremendous amounts of personal information, and they will not be allowed to live in the city without them. Think of Hitler as you read through the list of data that will be stored on these cards: work history, education, religion, ethnicity, police records, medical insurance status, landlord's contact information, and personal reproductive history. In the future, the cards will also carry credit history and be able to be used to make small purchases. 20,000 police surveillance cameras connected to computers with face recognition software are also being installed across the city, and the system will have the right to tap into the 180,000 private company surveillance systems throughout the city. And the company providing all this human-tracking technology is financed by un-American, greedy, profit-driven scumbags in America.

China's excuse is that with its huge population and increasing mobility, as well as the increase in street protests, the program is needed to keep people safe. Sounds ridiculous to us, of course, but if you use the terrorism excuse, then suddenly it becomes clear that the millions of Americans who believe we are at risk from terrorists (as opposed to creepy people working through our own government) could easily be convinced to accept this sort of tracking system to keep them safe. A dirty bomb here and there, a couple suicide bombers in a mall, and suddenly terrified Americans will willingly hold out their wrists as the shackles are applied.

Listen to what Michael Lin, the vide president for investor relations at China Public Security Technology, has to say (bear in mind he is a representative of a private company, not of the government):

If they do not get the permanent card, they cannot live here, they cannot get government benefits, and that is a way for the government to control the population in the future.

Once the purchasing ability is added to the cards, how long will it be before they will not be allowed to make purchases without them? How long after that before the card, which of course could be lost, is replaced with an implanted chip? Not long, I would guess.

This company is incorporated in Florida. It is funded by investment funds in Texas. Much of the money has been raised for this company in California and New York, where just last month it was announced that security cameras would be installed to monitor license plates and eventually face recognition technology may begin to be used.

Revelation 13:16-17 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

The words have been recited by Christians for centuries and scoffed at by critics, but it's beginning to look increasingly possible, whether you believe in the rest of the AntiChrist/Beast story or not. China has ordered all large cities to follow suit. Is it really so far-fetched to believe that someday this technology will be applied on a world-wide basis? A quick exploration of the company involved – China Public Security Technology – and its partners certainly indicates to me that it is possible and that it is planned. It works closely with IBM (the very company who sold Hitler the computer tracking system that allowed him to identify the Jews and others he exterminated), Cisco, HP, and Dell, and one of its top partners is also partnered with Microsoft. We, as Americans, need to make sure this goes no further.

Posted by Becky at August 13, 2007 12:09 PM