The move by the world’s governments to inject tracking chips into animals and even humans, allowing them to track and spy on their citizens, has aroused concern regarding an individuals right to privacy.  The proposed chip contains a transponder that can be read by GPS satellite systems and is powered when the carrier’s body is in motion. This is not some made-for-TV movie but by its own documents a cradle-to-grave computer tracking system the U.S. government has set as its current goal. This technology is to be implemented as a form of databasing parents and their babies at the time of birth, as well as, enabling the government to monitor a family’s performance from preschool through a child’s career years. 

This well-coordinated effort between the Departments of Labor, Education and Health and Human Services states that everyone is slated to be put on a career track – not of their choosing – and databased throughout their careers, having to be recertified each time they change jobs. While this sounds like great material for a movie it is quite frightening when one realizes that this procedure is underway and readily available in government and related documents. 

While unbeknownst to many American citizens this technology is not some futuristic goal as our own government has been using the Echelon global spy satellite system to spy on Americans for the last two years. Echelon is operated by the five main English-language countries: The U.S., Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and uses satellite systems to monitor bases in those countries while avoiding violating their own laws, which prohibit spying on their own citizens, by having one of the other Echelon countries do the spying and then handing over the data. This sweeping system uses radio spectrums worldwide allowing governments to eavesdrop on phone calls, faxes and emails. Sadly, it was not our government that willing acknowledged this monitoring system since it only surfaced when the American government could no longer deny Echelon’s existence after the European Parliament prepared a 112-page technology assessment report on the system. Shortly thereafter Insight Magazine ran an article that concluded that the rapid proliferation of surveillance technologies presented a serious threat to the civil liberties of Europeans. After this report and after this magazine article were circulated Europeans became furious because they now have evidence that suggests that they may be subject to political spying and industrial espionage.

With this information coming to light the European Parliament has opened an international debate on Echelon charging Great Britain with aiding the United States in conducting industrial espionage, now alleging that both of these countries obtained sensitive corporate data and placed it in the hands of their own businesses giving them a competitive advantage. Once again this invasion of citizen privacy will be a legacy of the Bush Administration who has even rebuked Congress’s 2006 efforts to investigate the system under the guise of the National Security Agency who monitors the U.S. end of the system. I don’t know about other citizen’s reaction to this info but I for one found it quite disturbing and for any of you with a religious background I would question if this is not the next step in God’s plan to place the mark of the beast on a person’s forehead. If it is and the Bush Administration is propagating it where does George stand in regards to the anti-Christ. While he doesn’t fit the requirements of the evil one himself could he be his henchman or is he the Judas of the 21^st century?

[tags]Bush Administration, Tracking American Citizens, Echelon spy satellite spy system, Right to privacy, Judas, industrial espionage, European Parliament, surveillance technology[/tags]