The Chip: Human Microchips Outlawed in Virginia | 2010 News

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As it seems, Virginia may be a place to relocate if you’re not partial to involuntarily receiving the implantable Bio-Chip (VeriChip) beneath your skin. FYI: The Chip received United States FDA approval in 2004.

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VeriChip | Human RFID Microchip * Photo Source: Electrical and Electronics

[This story is a re-print from The Washington Post]

Human microchips seen by some in Virginia House as
device of Antichrist

By Fredrick Kunkle and Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post Staff Writer
(Original Post: Wednesday, February 10, 2010)

VeriChip | Human RFID Bio-Chip * Photo: Business Week

RICHMOND, FEB. 9 — The House of Delegates is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bill that would protect Virginians from attempts by employers or insurance companies to implant microchips in their bodies against their will.

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• An issue of privacy or sign of the apocalypse?
• Full text and status of Del. Mark L. Cole’s anti-tracking-device bill

It might also save humanity from the antichrist, some supporters think.

Del. Mark L. Cole (R-Fredericksburg), the bill’s sponsor, said that privacy issues are the chief concern behind his attempt to criminalize the involuntary implantation of microchips. But he also said he shared concerns that the devices could someday be used as the “mark of the beast” described in the Book of Revelation.

“My understanding — I’m not a theologian — but there’s a prophecy in the Bible that says you’ll have to receive a mark, or you can neither buy nor sell things in end times,” Cole said. “Some people think these computer chips might be that mark.”

Cole said that the growing use of microchips could allow employers, insurers or the government to track people against their will and that implanting a foreign object into a human being could also have adverse health effects.

“I just think you should have the right to control your own body,” Cole said.

The religious overtones have cast the debate into a realm that has made even some supporters uneasy and caused opponents to mock the bill for legislating the apocalypse.

Del. Robert H. Brink (D-Arlington) said on the House floor that he did not find many voters demanding microchip legislation when he was campaigning last fall: “I didn’t hear anything about the danger of asteroids striking the Earth, about the threat posed by giant alligators in our cities’ sewer systems or about the menace of forced implantation of microchips in human beings.”