Chipped Students - Is This The America You Want?

So  you want to know what an Orwellian society will look like?  Look no further than the Northside Independent School District outside of San Antonio, Texas.  This past week, the school board unanimously voted to implant radio frequency chips on student identification cards so all students in two of its schools can be "tracked".  If it is "successful", the school board intends to implement the system in all of its schools.

The story speaks for itself.  Here is the link.  Ostensibly, this is being done because school reimbursement is based on attendance.  And they can't handle attendance a normal way because of what?  For reasons determined by the school board,  it will generate more than enough money to cover the cost of the system which is around $600,000.00.   The story indicated that "some" privacy concerns were raised, but it was barely a ripple.

Here is what we are teaching our children.  It's okay to track through ID cards.  Can a chip to track us on our drivers licenses be too far away? Once this kind of tracking is accepted, that's it.  It will pop up everywhere.  There are always financial incentives to justify something that is about as un-American as can be.  You can even give safety justifications for young children.  If you fear kidnapping, why not implant a chip into all children behind their right ear. Oh nevermind...that's what we do to dogs.  This is scary stuff.  This is totalitarian stuff.  This is 1984 stuff.  Is this what technology has done to us?  Just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should.

 It's not enough that we are monitored, video taped, watched through street lights with cameras and speakers to tell you what you are doing wrong, photographed while driving, strip searched trying to board an airplane...we have to be tracked with a chip?

 I have never been a fan of the ACLU; but if this stuff keeps up...I'll become a card carrying member.  When the home of that little Cuban boy was raided like Nazis in the middle of the night by the immigration folks to steal that little boy from his family to send back to Communist Cuba, I joined the NRA.  This is our freedom.  This is our liberty.  This is America.  There is no place for draconian, Orwellian behavior by a bunch of do gooders who know what is best for you.

These anal retentive bureaucrats will destroy our country.  Enough is enough.  Stand up, America, for freedom.