A recent 700 Club segment concluded that, despite "some Christian's concerns," the human identification chip shouldn't be feared because it will be "voluntary", and the "end times" identification scheme will be "coerced" and "government enforced" -- or so the 700 club's "expert" contended. The "expert" also stated, "it is illogical and unfair" for "some Christians" to attack ADS for "making a prototype mark of the Beast."

Maybe Robertson and his 700 Club staff live somewhere where "voluntary" means "absolutely not required" -- such as the Moon perhaps.

Or perhaps, for his definitions of "voluntary" and "required" Robertson uses the same dictionary as does Bill Clinton.

Consider the "voluntary income tax." Perhaps Robertson would agree, as one IRS official contended, that the "voluntarily income tax" is likened to a stop sign. We voluntarily stop (to avoid the consequences).

Unfortunately, here in the real world voluntary, state-administered schemes invariably have a way of becoming mandatory requirements -- either explicitly or implicitly -- over time.

But more apparently, Robertson is simply speaking from his "privileged class" status. The 700 Club is, after all, a "tax exempt" state-creation. Therefore, it can only use state-approved definitions for words in espousing state-approved doctrine.

The Beast system will always contend that the mark of the beast is not the mark of the beast. And creations of the Beast (i.e., all religious organizations operating under privilege of the Beast) will always preach the same. This is the foundation for the "Great Deception".

People who live under the paradigms of state-approved doctrine can -- in their own mind -- reconcile all of the otherwise obvious contradictions, such as calling things that are requirements of the state, "voluntary".

State doctrine holds that you have a right to become part of the privileged class as long as you play by all of the privileged class rules. Members of the privileged class convince themselves that state-granted privileges are rights (granted by their god), and they voluntarily (even eagerly) comply with all state requirements.

Tax exempt organizations are all state creations. The creator is, by definition, the god of its creations.

The 700 Club is among the privileged class of tax exempt religious organizations. It must, therefore preach only state approved doctrine for as long as it holds that status.

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"See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.
Colossians 2:8

"For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
2 Timothy 4:3-4

"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
Matthew 7:15

"At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
Matthew 24:10-11

"For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect-- if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time.
Matthew 24:24-25
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The ChipThe "Veri-Chip" or "Digital Angel" is amicrochip implant that can hold personal, medical andother information under your skin. It can be read byan electronic scanner several feet away from yourbody. It may soon also include Global PositioningSystem (GPS) Satellite tracking capabilities so thatyour location can be monitored 24 hours a day.The chip is made by a company from Florida called Applied Digital Solutions (ADS). On December19th2001, the company unveiled the chip to the public and announced that it was seeking FDA governmentapproval to begin marketing the chip for human use.On April 4th, 2002 it received that approval.If we all "get chipped" (as the company likes tocall it) we will be much easier to keep track of and control. Of course the company says it's for our own good.If you've ever had any doubts about the government or corporations ­ don't let them put amicro chip in your arm.

Once that's happened, you'll be at their mercy.The Media Blitz. From February 1st through March 15th (6 weeks)there has been a huge amount of favorable corporate media coverage of the Veri-Chip. The company's CEO calls "the amount and quality of media coverage... astounding."The Chip has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, Fox's The O'Reilly Factor, Nickelodeon Kids' News, The 700 Club Christian News and many many others. In the last 6 weeks there have been 30 news stories so glowing in their coverage of The Veri-Chip that ADS has put links for them up on its webpage. (www.adsx.com)

People all around the world are doing what it takes to say NO (to the implant and more!) This pamphlet is an attempt to save your life, sanity and ability to revolt. Master copies can be downloaded from the Cascadia MediaCollective at: www.cascadiamedia.org

Fox TV's The O'Reilly Facto rcalled The Chip "the wave of the future." Andy Rooney said on 6 0 Minutes, "I wouldn't mind having something planted permanently in my arm that would identify me."The Company told Tech TV on March 13th that 2,000 kids have already written to request that they have the chip implanted in them.The Mark of The Beast? Many people think of the Biblically prophesized Mark of The Beast when they hear about the Veri-Chip. Many Christians are concerned that that's exactly what's going on, that the chip is a sign of the end of the world. The conservative Christian daily news show The700 Club, hosted by Pat Robertson, did a story on theVeri-Chip and discussed the Mark of The Beast issue.They decided that it couldn't be what had been biblically prophesized because it's going to be voluntary and it won't involve buying and selling.According to them, "getting chipped" is just fine.Is it Really Voluntary? The makers of Veri-Chip and the media that loves it assure us that receiving the implant will be up to each of us as individuals. ADS Vice President Keith Bolton told The 700 Club that "We live in a free society. You can either elect to smoke [or not]. You can elect to have the VeriChip. So it's a freedom of choice technology."This emphasis on the chip being voluntary is anew part of ADS's public relations campaign, though. For example, just last December the company's CEO, Richard Sullivan, told The Palm Beach Post that Veri-Chips could be a great alternative to green cards for tracking "foreigners." "Foreigners who pass though customs or immigration could be injected with the chip, allowing officials to monitor their activities better and keep terrorists out."Likewise, in the same article Sullivan says that in five years, he can see the chips being used in children, the elderly and prisoners. That doesn't sound voluntary. The company's vice president, Bolton, told theWashington Post in December that use of the chip would be voluntary, unless the law allows otherwise.What About Buying and Selling? Religious scholars who, for whatever reason, approve of the Veri-Chip say that it isn't The Mark of The Beast because it won't be used for buying and selling. That kind of talk is pretty new for ADS, though. CEO Richard Sullivan said in December that in five years, we could be using the Veri-Chip instead of ATM or credit cards.Ultimately, the biblical technicalities aren't the only thing that's important. The basic idea is this: if all compliant citizens promise to be compliant not justnow, but forever, then anyone at any time in the future who doesn't obey orders will be easy to identify, track and possibly exclude from society. In Starhawk's book The Fifth Sacred Thing, for example, a futuristic totalitarian government releases genetically engineered diseases into the air supply. In order to survive, everyone must receive regular vaccinations.Anyone who questions orders is simply denied theirnext vaccination and is unable to survive.Does this seem like a relevant story in connection to the Veri-Chip? I think so.Rules Can't Be Trusted When thinking about all of this, consider the following facts:- The US Government once planned to kill US civilians as an excuse to invade another country.(ABC News, May 1st2001) The plan, called Operation Northwoods, was presented to the Kennedy administration in 1962, signed by the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, and asked for permission to detonate explosives in US cities, blow up a space shuttle with John Glenn in it, and blame it all on Cuba in order to whip up US public support for an invasion.Some Christians say this old Digital Angel logo looks a whole lot like the number 666, when you turn it upside down.Dick Sullivan, CEOApplied Digital SolutionsDo you want this man toknow where you are?Next time you see some one who looks different from you, say hi to them. They probably don't want an implant either!

By Doug Brown Small Times Correspondent - March 19, 2002 – A Florida company is developing an implantable, sensor-spangled microchip that can communicate the wearer's location, pulse, body temperature and other data.

This type of sensor could be welcome news for health care professionals charged with caring for wandering Alzheimer's patients, parole officers and even as a safeguard against the wave of kidnappings in South America, developers say.

But privacy groups, worried about the potential for misuse, call it a slippery slope to Big Brother. And some Christian groups call it the "mark of the beast."

Applied Digital Solutions (Nasdaq ADSX) in Palm Beach, Fla., already sells an implantable microchip called Verichip that contains information about its wearer, such as allergies or medical conditions. It also sells Digital Angel, a wearable constellation of sensors that link to the Global Positioning System network and that send off alarms if, for example, its wearer wanders beyond a designated boundary or falls down.

Now, the company is toiling to combine the two products, to take the technology “beyond the watch and pager device to a technology that can be implanted under the skin, similar Digital Angel, a wearable constellation of sensors that link to the Global Positioning System network, sends off alarms if, for example, its wearer wanders beyond a designated boundary or falls down.

to the technology of a pacemaker,” said Keith Bolton, the company’s chief technology officer. Originally, he said, the company steered clear of the implantable sensor-filled device because research showed that the market for wearable devices alone was enormous. But intense interest in South America, stemming from the rapid acceleration of kidnappings in different countries, is causing the company to “rethink” its position, he said.

“It is conceivable that a product like this, with the right demand and in concert with any government regulation or state and federal issues, could be in the marketplace sometime in 2003,” he said. In the United States to date, the only regulatory hurdle for the future product would be passing Food and Drug Administration muster.

Bolton said that today’s Digital Angel products use the smallest GPS receiver on the market, measuring about 1 inch by 1 inch in diameter. The GPS component of the product delivers information about the location of its wearers to the Digital Angel system.

A sensor in the current products can sound alarms when wearers cross geographic boundaries, such as a five-mile radius perimeter. The criminal justice industry has shown interest in the technology for prisoners under house arrest or on parole, Bolton said. It’s also perfect for sufferers of Alzheimer's disease, who often wander from homes and hospitals and get lost, and for parents to attach to children.

Another sensor passes along body-temperature information. In development are sensors that will send vital sign information like pulse, blood oxygen and glucose levels, Bolton said. Taking advantage of MEMS technology has been key to the success of Digital Angel, said Peter Zhou, the company’s chief scientist.

MEMS, he said, “will be even more important in the future. We are still not happy with how small we are. We want to go further.” To date, the company used MEMS technology in the construction of the Digital Angel chip. It’s also the backbone of a sensor that measures acceleration.

“When you move, you accelerate, and this chip measures it,” he said.

Zhou said MEMS will dominate the development of the product as the company works to increasingly shrink its product line while affixing it with more and more sensors. All of the information is forwarded to a Digital Angel network, comprised of proprietary middleware, which holds the data in real time and can interface with all of the wireless devices on the market today, Bolton said.

The system, he said, gives tracking control to the individual, “so you the caregiver can actually log on with a PDA and a common browser (or over a telephone line) and see the information,” he said. As a result, he said, the company does not need to have command centers staffed with people responding to alerts.

A mapping protocol that links longitude and latitude information with mapping information across the globe makes the product especially unique, he said. “It doesn’t matter if the person is in Indiana or Brazil or England, we have the ability to see that information, not only in a freeze-frame capability but in real motion,” he said.

Thousands of people around the world have ordered Digital Angel products, Bolton said. The product was in development for roughly two years and was introduced into the marketplace late last year. Applied Digital stock closed Monday at $0.45 a share, down from a 52- week high of $1.75 last April. The company posted annual revenues of $260.1 million in 2000, down from $336.7 million in 1999.

Applied Digital announced late in 2001 that Digital Angel would be set up as a separate company under an agreement with Medical Advisory Systems calling for Applied Digital to own 80 percent of the company.

The combined sensor-chip device is still in development, and it’s getting scrutinized. The idea of the implantable chip larded with sensors and hooked up to GPS “is very creepy,” said Marlene Bourne, a senior analyst with Cahners In-Stat MDR, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

“This really raises a lot of questions,” she said. “First of all, who are you going to implant this stuff into? Do you need their permission? What if they refuse, do you go ahead anyway? Will it be only for physicians? And for what purpose? It could start very benignly,” but morph into something more sinister, she said.

Bourne, who studies the MEMS industry, said she is not aware of any other companies pursuing sensor-rich implantable devices. Even though company officials say both Digital Angel and Verichip are voluntary, benign technologies, privacy advocates are leery of the products.

“Business models change in hard times,” said Chris Hoofnagle, legislative counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington, D.C. cyberspace civil liberties watchdog organization. “Today it might be optional for people with medical conditions (to wear tracking or information devices), but tomorrow it might be mandatory.”

Hoofnagle said he did not believe the company intends to accomplish anything sinister with its product. The problem, he said, is that it “sets up a system and conditions Americans to the idea that location tracking is OK.”

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Zhou said MEMS will dominate the development of the product as the company works to increasingly shrink its product line while affixing it with more and more sensors.

All of the information is forwarded to a Digital Angel network, comprised of proprietary middleware, which holds the data in real time and can interface with all of the wireless devices on the market today, Bolton said.

The system, he said, gives tracking control to the individual, "so you the caregiver can actually log on with a PDA and a common browser (or over a telephone line) and see the information," he said. As a result, he said, the company does not need to have command centers staffed with people responding to alerts.
A mapping protocol that links longitude and latitude information with mapping information across the globe makes the product especially unique, he said.

"It doesn't matter if the person is in Indiana or Brazil or England, we have the ability to see that information, not only in a freeze-frame capability but in real motion," he said.

Thousands of people around the world have ordered Digital Angel products, Bolton said. The product was in development for roughly two years and was introduced into the marketplace late last year.

Applied Digital stock closed Monday at $0.45 a share, down from a 52- week high of $1.75 last April. The company posted annual revenues of $260.1 million in 2000, down from $336.7 million in 1999.

Applied Digital announced late in 2001 that Digital Angel would be set up as a separate company under an agreement with Medical Advisory Systems calling for Applied Digital to own 80 percent of the company.

A "700 Club" spokesperson said that the episode was popular enough to be rebroadcast earlier this month

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