Monday, May 18, 2009

A Killer App

The basic model would consist of a tiny GPS transceiver placed in a capsule and inserted under a person's skin, so that authorities could track him easily.

Model B would have an extra function — a dose of cyanide to remotely kill the wearer without muss or fuss if authorities deemed he'd become a public threat. [More]
Wow, and I thought Collars of Obedience were extreme...

What kind of evil, sick mind thinks this sh** up?

I wonder if Tommy Thompson will insert one?

8 comments:

Michael Gilson said...

I wonder if showing that article to those who say allowing a sharia law system in parallel to our civil and criminal law is no danger and only fair would make them reconsider? Naw, there's already so much evidence easily available that they ignore, the would just ignore or deny this as well.

David Codrea said...

Come on, Michael--if you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to worry about.

bob r said...

Someone once suggested that politicians wear a collar with an interesting feature: if a sufficient number of people pushed an "activation" button within a sufficiently short period of time, the collar would decapitate the politician. It seems it would keep them focused on their "proper" job role. Using a capsule like this might be preferable as it wouldn't make quite as much of a mess.

Then again, the mess might be considered a feature, not a bug.

Defender said...

.."political dissidents.."
As the World Caliphate advances, that would mean everyone except the Arab royal family and the high imams.

Apparently even if our government doesn't force this issue, SOMEONE will. Our wise leaders already have the smart-chip-in-the-passport, a fine conditioning tool.
Over on another website, conspiracy theorists are regularly insulted. The problem with being a "conspiracy theorist" today is, reality keeps passing the "theories" at a high rate of speed.
We see even here in America that not everyone WANTS to be free.
Maybe the Massachusetts man with 30,000 rounds of ammunition was thinking about that day when one can neither buy nor sell anything without being a member of the Chip Club.
I am not a fundamentalist Christian, but I can discern patterns.

Longbow said...

Yeah, yeah... You'll take the piece, see? If ya know whats good for ya..! Yeah...

Anonymous said...

Patent applied for? Probably already developed to version 2 or 3...

straightarrow said...

C'mon David, don't pretend naivete, you know damn well every politician ever existent has thought of something like this and a great many of them are on record as approving of it, right here in America.

Real ID, National ID, etc. All these things lend themselves to just such as this. Though we be called tin foil hat wearing nutjobs, it seems when we warn against these probabilities, we are dismissed even after they become reality.

Makes one wonder how much lemming DNA there is in the average human, does it not?

Uncle Lar said...

Actually just such a device figured prominently in the novel "I Lucifer" a Modesty Blaise story by Peter O'Donnell written some 40 years ago.
Guess there's not much new under the sun.