Delusions, the Legislature and an implanted microchip
We often say that insanity reigns at the state Capitol.
But when we do, we do not literally accuse the people inside of letting their grip on reality slip. We simply mean that our ability to fathom their motives, or their ability to express them, has fallen short.
Referring to a politician as delusional is simply entertaining hyperbole. But it is something that becomes much less funny when a truly tortured soul bears her torment.
Last Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee entertained SB 235, the bill sponsored by Sen. Chip Pearson (R-Dawsonville) to prohibit the involuntary implantation of microchips in human beings.
In Gov. Roy Barnes’ stump speech, the bill has become a routine example of the Republican tendency to attack problems that don’t exist, and ignore the ones that do. Besides, Barnes argues, if someone holds him down to insert a microchip in his head, “it should be more than a damned misdemeanor.”
Three states have instituted bans, and others have considered the legislation. In Virginia, a bill supporter declared microchips to be the “666″ mark of the beast referred to in the Book of Revelation.
Pearson has said his motivation isn’t biblical or religious – that he is simply working in advance of technology’s next assault on personal privacy. Not unlike limiting the uses of DNA testing by health insurance companies, he argues.
At the House hearing, state Rep. Ed Setzler (R-Kennesaw), who is shouldering the legislation in the House, spoke earnestly for better than a half hour on microchips as a literal invasion of privacy.
He was followed by a hefty woman who described herself as a resident of DeKalb County. “I’m also one of the people in Georgia who has a microchip,” the woman said. Slowly, she began to lead the assembled lawmakers down a path they didn’t want to take.
Microchips, the woman began, “infringe on issues that are fundamental to our very existence. Our rights to privacy, our rights to bodily integrity, the right to say no to foreign objects being put in our body.”
She spoke of the “right to work without being tortured by co-workers who are activating these microchips by using their cell phones and other electronic devices.”
She continued. “Microchips are like little beepers. Just imagine, if you will, having a beeper in your rectum or genital area, the most sensitive area of your body. And your beeper numbers displayed on billboards throughout the city. All done without your permission,” she said.
It was not funny, and no one laughed.
“Ma’am, did you say you have a microchip?” asked state Rep. Tom Weldon (R-Ringgold).
“Yes, I do. This microchip was put in my vaginal-rectum area,” she replied. Setzler, the sponsoring lawmaker, sat next to the witness – his head bowed.
“You’re saying this was involuntary?” Weldon continued.
The woman said she had been pushing a court case through the system for the last eight years to have the device removed.
Wendell Willard (R-Atlanta), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, picked up the questioning.
“Who implanted this in you?” he asked.
“Researchers with the federal government,” she said.
“And who in the federal government implanted it?” Willard asked.
“The Department of Defense.”
“Thank you, ma’am.”
The woman was allowed to go about her business, and the House Judiciary Committee approved passage of SB 235.
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138 comments Add your comment
Ostrich Racer
April 19th, 2010
4:09 pm
Res ipsa loquitor.
Icarus
April 19th, 2010
4:19 pm
::facepalm::
Pat
April 19th, 2010
4:30 pm
Oh my, there is just too much to say about this to even respond. haha
Scott
April 19th, 2010
4:33 pm
Ok…is it just me or did they spend valuable time that could have been used to figure out this budget mess by parading a psychotic woman who might also be friends with a space alien or two in front of this committee for WHAT REASON?!?! Roy has this one nailed. If Sen. Chip Pearson (R-Dawsonville) is your rep…I’d say its time to vote for someone else. This would be laughable if it wasn’t for the fact that so much needs to be done and you hear about this garbage
The General
April 19th, 2010
4:33 pm
Poor lady, it’ll be years before the spaceship folks comes back to remove their microchip from her butt, and she thought it was the Dep’t of Defense. On another note, I personally know of at least several state legislators who are not utter and complete buffoons, but you can count ‘em on one hand.
Scott
April 19th, 2010
4:34 pm
See…The General agrees. She has friends in outer space places…
You Asked
April 19th, 2010
4:35 pm
My dog wants to talk to Sen. Pearson about sponsoring similar legislation for pets. He’d also like to outlaw cats.
The Cynical White Boy
April 19th, 2010
4:35 pm
So, King Roy makes fun of a bill outlawing implants of micro-chips.
I ain’t scared of an involuntary implant of a micro-chip, King Roy, but I am scared of an involuntary implant of 4 more years of Bobby Kahn.
Hey Roy, forget the micro-chip bill, just support a ban on implantation of Bobby Kahn when you once again enter into your Kingdom.
Jim
April 19th, 2010
4:35 pm
Awesome! I really hate I missed that one!
Greg Pinckard
April 19th, 2010
4:35 pm
Who is going to serve the warrents against the little green men?
You Asked
April 19th, 2010
4:40 pm
@ Greg Pinckard – Who is going to serve the warrents against the little green men?
Get it straight- The chips are from the CIA! Little Green Men use (oriface) probes.
Pat
April 19th, 2010
4:44 pm
Don’t the legislatures know that we are just going to go across state lines to get these involuntary implanted. They are just losing out on revenue by not allowing this here.
David S
April 19th, 2010
4:47 pm
What is truly sad is that the legislature must pass a bill to make this kind of thing a crime. Show how little we can count on the government to protect our rights these days, as they are generally the first in line to violate them.
The intrusions into our privacy that the government at both state and federal levels DEMANDS these days is so far beyond what any of our founding fathers would have believed, and all done with complete disregard for the 4th amendment.
As states work to pass laws in attempts to protect their citizens from the onslaught of the feds with healthcare it is nice to see that a few are looking at all the ways the government has planned for invading the sanctity of our lives and our bodies.
Tired
April 19th, 2010
4:52 pm
What a profound – and unintentional – testimony to the need to fund Behavioral Health services.
I wasn’t there, but generally anyone can sign up to testify and it is unfair to assume that legislators “paraded’ her, or even knew who she was.
Jim
April 19th, 2010
4:57 pm
Isn’t Pearson the same dude with the company that boasts of its ‘connections’ to the Capitol? Perhaps the guy could look at sponsoring some ethics legislation next. Maybe he could get the same lady to come back and testify before the committee on that bill. She was probably just a ‘plant’ by the Democrats anyway;-)
TW
April 19th, 2010
5:05 pm
Shouldn’t our teachers and law enforcement be given special training on how to do spot/deal with those seeking to…implant us?
OMG! I think they are in my neighborhood RIGHT NOW…oh…just the mail…I think, but WAIT! How do I know it’s REALLY the mail? Maybe that little white truck is full of the microchips!
OMG!
Joseph D.
April 19th, 2010
5:06 pm
And Georgia is contemplating being the only state inthe nation without an Arts Council? Moreover, this legislation is sponsored by a person nicknamed ‘Chip.’ It truly goes from the sublime to the absurd!
Bubba
April 19th, 2010
5:14 pm
See, e.g., http://www.amazon.com/Paranoid-Style-American-Politics-Vintage/dp/0307388441/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271711660&sr=1-1 and http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Intellectualism-American-Life-Richard-Hofstadter/dp/0394703170.
Einstein
April 19th, 2010
5:31 pm
Folks, wake up…this is Biblical. Who’s to say the 666 mentioned in the Book of Revelation is not a computer chip. BAR code, etc. And, why is our State Gov’t even considering something other than Education, Transportation, or Natural Resources?
State Employee
April 19th, 2010
5:35 pm
WOW….So for years both Federal and State government has been screwing all of us and now they decided to “tag” each of us to they can actually keep track of whom they have screwed…And now Georgia wants to ban it, so does this mean that we can rest better knowing that the Legislators will stop screwing us in the future? I dont think so, because they are doing it to us now….SPEND OUR MONEY ON SOMETHING THAT CAN IMPROVE OUR LIVES AND WALLETS instead of WASTING TIME AND MONEY ON NOTHING….So does implanting our foot up your butts to get you to do something will now be deemed illegal?
arnold
April 19th, 2010
5:35 pm
The Republicans have their next VP candidate.
There is a sickness in GA
April 19th, 2010
5:39 pm
Okay…this bill is silly, however, and I cannot believe I am going to say this, but I can foresee at least one positive use for implanting chips in certain types of people. To track soldiers in battle for instance, so they can be found if they go MIA, are POW or KIA.
I don’t approve of this one, but I fear it is only a matter time before we see people seriously talking about forcing sex-offenders to get microchip implanted in them the make sure they don’t go near schools etc.
Also, we should all piety the mentally ill, I would not wish it on my worst enemy.
Diehard
April 19th, 2010
5:47 pm
Roy has a microchip on his shoulder after losing his last race to Sonny.
Hillbilly Deluxe
April 19th, 2010
5:59 pm
Jim @ 4:57
I think that was Chip Rogers.
Jim
April 19th, 2010
6:17 pm
Ga. is falling apart, we struggle with the budget, our schools are getting shafted and this is what the repubs want to spend time and effort on? PLEASE TELL ME THAT THIS IS A JOKE ! Uh Chip, go back to where you came from and let real people address real problems.Earth to Chip, Earth to Chip.
Jim
April 19th, 2010
6:19 pm
Excuse me , was that a micro chip or were you just happy to see me?
Your “They Exist” Open thread — Peach Pundit
April 19th, 2010
6:27 pm
[...] Courtesy of Jim Galloway, who probably has to put up with more of this than all of us at PP combined: “Ma’am, did you say you have a microchip?” asked state Rep. Tom Weldon (R-Ringgold). [...]
Jim
April 19th, 2010
6:28 pm
I am sorry about the comments that I made earlier. Its just that when I move the mouse on my computer, it causes the implanted chip in my ear to go off. This in turn has the effect that makes me swing at the nearest right wing wack job available- Please make it stop !!
Chippy McLegislator
April 19th, 2010
6:56 pm
Sorry we didn’t do anything about transportation once again this year but we ran out of time. We had much more important issues to deal with. Besides, traffic is only important to the yankee infested Atlanta. We have to spend valuable time on issues important to REAL Georgians, like our women being abducted by CIA controlled UFOs and getting microchips implanted in their vjj.
Jim
April 19th, 2010
7:00 pm
Chippy,it is obvious that you underestimate the problem . Don’t your realize that whole neighborhoods can have their tv reception ruined by just one microchip person? I now fully realize why my garage door keeps opening by itself, and here I just thought it was my imagination.
Harry Paulms
April 19th, 2010
7:01 pm
Microchip Pearson, protecting the vaginal-rectal region of all his constituents, while somehow applying his brand of politics, forcefully, in the same vicinity.
Tim White
April 19th, 2010
7:33 pm
I have something I would like to implant in the “vaginal-rectum area” of the Republican Georgia Legislative Leadership. But it’s not a micro-chip!
ahem.....
April 19th, 2010
8:21 pm
Roy Barnes has got this right. The whole bizarre episode illustrates how foolish a turn Republican politics has taken. While the GOP grandstands on silly things like this, problems like the budget, water, education, and traffic get worse. Thanks for nothing, Republican Legislature.
RBN
April 19th, 2010
9:41 pm
So I suppose the Repub legislators voluntarily accepted the implants that stole their minds.
Lucy
April 20th, 2010
7:43 am
Right.
Karl Marx
April 20th, 2010
9:10 am
I guess all the sheeple here think it is OK for states to collect DNA samples to be entered into a national database without their permission even if the “donor” has committed no crime. Welcome to 1984 although Instead of big brother we have big sis.
Republican turned Democrat
April 20th, 2010
9:14 am
See why I left the GOP? They’re a bunch of whackjobs. Look at the propaganda Glenn Beck spreads, and he sits home laughing at the things he can get people to believe. Dems aren’t far behind either. If they ever start talking again they’ll probably realize they have more in common that they thought – screwing the American people. Yeah I vote Dem now but that doesn’t mean I like whackjobs from either party.
At least I know why my GOP friends’ claim their a$$es itch all the time now. Either they been hanging out in male airport restrooms or the CIA’s green men implanted them.
Pharmacist
April 20th, 2010
9:40 am
As a pharmacist and conservative, I find it appalling that our Georgia legislators would put a psychotic/mentally disturbed woman in a position of talking about implantation of microchips into her body. Did any of these legislators consider that she may be under treatment for her mental disorder and therefore may have received IM (intramuscular) injections or suppositories containing antipsychotic medications as part of her treatment??? (Patients often don’t understand the difference between medications they need administered and “space aliens who implant devices in them”.) Mentally, where is the sanity of our legislators in evaluating each person individually BEFORE they allow to talk on the floor of the legistlature? This woman is certainly detatched from reality!
Big-Ole Roy Barnes and the Democrats are having one big laugh because Rep. Chip Pearson (R-Dawsonville) and Rep. Ed Setzler (R-Kennesaw) won’t take the time to evaluate the sanity of people they put before the legislature to speak! Furthermore, the Republicans cannot discern a real problem from a potential future or imagined problem.
We have so many REAL PROBLEMS in our state now, so why are we entertaining this “make-believe” topic — and on the last days of this legislative session, when candidates are trying to push through remaining legislation on so many important topics before they can start raising funds for re-election?
I’m totally disgusted with the Georgia Republicans, the poor state of the Georgia economy, and decisions made on our behalf by dim-wits we have elected!!! Before I vote for another Georgia candidate, I will evaluate their fitness to serve in the Georgia legislature!!! I suggest everyone reading this do the same thing.
John K
April 20th, 2010
11:20 am
Paranoia: The Breakfast of Republicans.
luther blissett
April 20th, 2010
2:08 pm
‘Taint necessarily so.
Chris
April 20th, 2010
2:08 pm
I haven’t laughed out loud this loud for a long time – this is truly bizarre.
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2:44 pm
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April 20th, 2010
2:45 pm
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paulbrown
April 20th, 2010
2:47 pm
Thanks for this hilarious story and for the outrageously funny comments that followed. Keep exposing the dopes who try to act more important than they are. And continue to brighten my day with your side-splitting humor.
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April 20th, 2010
2:48 pm
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Hipple, Rev Paul T
April 20th, 2010
2:53 pm
I know for a FACT that the US Federal government has had a microchip implantaton program that predates WWI, and according to my sources, quite possibly the Spanish American War. According to TS CIA documents, The New Deal which gave rise to the dawn of American Socialism and the oppression of Social Security would never have come about without the mind control aspects of this covert activity.
-RPTH
William G
April 20th, 2010
3:14 pm
OK….you right wingers are starting to scare me now.
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3:41 pm
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majii
April 20th, 2010
3:47 pm
@ Pharmacist:
Thanks for this:
“Before I vote for another Georgia candidate, I will evaluate their fitness to serve in the Georgia legislature!!! I suggest everyone reading this do the same thing.”
I’ve been urging others to do the same thing for a long time. It remains to be seen whether voters here have really learned anything after repeatedly voting the same types of politicians into office at the state and federal level. It continues to boggle the mind how/why voters would continue making their choices solely on the basis of a series of buzzwords. Voters need to stop allowing themselves to be used by these types of politicians. The way to do that would be to educate themselves thoroughly about the candidates before voting, but I have serious doubts as to whether they are willing to do this.
Sherman
April 20th, 2010
4:14 pm
Good thing there are no serious issues for Georgia to address…
Republican turned Democrat
April 20th, 2010
4:22 pm
Hey, some people probably like having the chip and the way it makes them feel when someone makes a cell phone call while in their vicinity. This is Atlanta after all.
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4:22 pm
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Harpie
April 20th, 2010
4:23 pm
@Pharmacist: Citizens of the State are allowed to come and speak on behalf of any piece of legislation WITHOUT being “put up” by legislators. If the chairman of the committee is accepting testimony, anyone in the room can stand and speak in support or against a piece of legislation. I am fairly certain that the sponsors of this legislation quickly became aware of this womans problems the minute she opened her mouth to speak, and I am 100% sure that this woman was not “put up” by either of the sponsors of this bill.
@ everyone else: Do you understand the term “proactive?” The purpose of this legislation is to protect the citizens of Georgia. The bill is closing a loophole before it opens. Microchips exist, and even if they aren’t being implanted in humans for whatever purpose, they could be one day. And, just like anything else in the world, COULD be used for ill purposes. Frankly, I appreciate the foresight on the part of these legislators!
Republican turned Democrat
April 20th, 2010
4:24 pm
Probably explains why people in Midtown walk the way they do.
Anita Bryant
April 20th, 2010
4:54 pm
Defense Dept. charges way too much for implantation. Try that great doc in Mexico City.
Andrea Stone
April 20th, 2010
5:31 pm
Microchips aren’t all. Check this out about other health care myths: http://www.aolnews.com/2010/04/20/muslims-are-exempt-and-more-new-obamacare-myths/19447382/
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April 20th, 2010
5:55 pm
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edwords
April 20th, 2010
9:10 pm
This is no crazier than creationism.
Pax facio ipso wacko!
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This guy Chip was implanted in our legislature againt my will
April 20th, 2010
10:25 pm
there ought to be a law against that.
Some Christians have expressed concern that the development of implantable microchips and RFIDs are a precursor to events prophesied in the Bible’s Book of Revelation.
So my tax dollars are going towards preventing a prophecy from coming true. (forehead slap).
durden
April 20th, 2010
10:39 pm
Someone got fired over that lady….. No one asked her about her story before she took the floor? Awesome use of vetting.
Stephanie W.
April 20th, 2010
10:42 pm
Wow, our wonderful state made the Rachel Maddow show again! She actually made fun of our 2 Chips and the microchips.
Jack Bauer
April 20th, 2010
10:43 pm
Implanted microchips were SO season two on ‘24′.
eddie
April 20th, 2010
10:55 pm
Commenting on the comments. Microchips before WWI, huh? Reverend, you need an education. Pharmacist says legislators need to screen people who testify. Can a group of lunatics be expected to screen other lunatics? Also, while they were at it, why didn’t the legislature ban other acts that we must be protected against such as government beaming of signals into peoples’ brains via television and radio, abducting people in flying saucers to perform experiments on their reproductive organs, etc. It’s enough to make you want ot pick up your pitchfork and rake and march on Washington, by gum. When is some courageous Republican going to stand up and point out that the majority of the members of his party aren’t wearing any clothes?
jr
April 20th, 2010
11:05 pm
Obviously, this lady was crazy. However, is there anybody on this thread that thinks you ought to be able to implant a microchip into somebody against their will? If so, then why?
It passed the Senate by a vote of 47-2…overwhelming bipartisan support.
Donald
April 20th, 2010
11:11 pm
So, who was crazier – the lady who claimed that DoD planted a microchip in her vagina (was that part of President Obama’s stimulus package?), or the state senators who subsequently approved that nonsensical bill anyway after listening to her?
Donald
April 20th, 2010
11:20 pm
David: “As states work to pass laws in attempts to protect their citizens from the onslaught of the feds with healthcare it is nice to see that a few are looking at all the ways the government has planned for invading the sanctity of our lives and our bodies.”
Dude, when you double down on the stupid like that, I don’t even think that a planted microchip could help you.
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Chris
April 21st, 2010
12:35 am
Assuming , of course that there really IS an implant, I’d like to know why she has to file suit to have the chip removed. Wouldn’t she want to go to a dermatologist or general surgeon or gynecologist instead of a lawyer? Every RFID that I’ve seen is inserted through a large gauge needle right under the skin. A nick in the skin, a pair of tweezers, and viola! No need for the aluminum foil panties anymore! Not something a barrister can help with, though.
What I REALLY want to know is where the billboard with her “beeper number” is. Now that everyone knows about what it does to her (for her?), I can imagine that she’s not getting much rest these days. Oh, except that RFIDs don’t vibrate, sing, dance, talk, or move for that matter. That’s troublesome. They’re chips sealed in glass tubes the size of an extra long grain of rice. No battery, no lights, no wires, zip, nil, nada. Again troublesome.
Hmmm…If it’s not a beeping-vibrating-RFID, I wonder what she REALLY has in her…region.
Chris
April 21st, 2010
12:55 am
@ Harpie I’m afraid she WAS known to Setzler before she testified before the committee. She may not have been “put up” but one of the sponsors of the bill (Setzler) was aware of her testimony beforehand.
Chris
April 21st, 2010
12:59 am
Pharmacist, I couldn’t agree more. I still don’t understand why she would choose to file suit to have it removed instead of seeking medical attention.
Rep. Ed Setzler
April 21st, 2010
1:31 am
For the record, the DeKalb County woman that testified in committee came to the Capitol on her own behalf and was in NO WAY invited by me or Senator Pearson. As this regrettable incident shows, a bill’s sponsor has no control of who from the public comes to speak on a bill – any implication that this woman was brought in by the sponsors is a misrepresentation of the facts that any person in attendance could attest to. As a legislator who has been working hard for months on transportation and the state budget, I am frankly disappointed in this report that reflects reality about as closely as the testimony of the witness herself. Will anyone join me in hoping that this troubled woman gets the kind of help she truly needs…
Brian
April 21st, 2010
4:49 am
Rep Setzler, what’s really regrettable about this incident is that you’re nutty enough to think that humans are actually implanted with microchips.
Do you actually know what they are and what they do? Your local veterinarian will be happy to point out that all RFID tags do is return a digital number when scanned with a reader device. They do not acquire data- they record nothing- and they can only be read by a scanning device located within an inch or so of the tag.
Most regrettably, your committee actually sallied forth, recommending criminalizing an act which simply doesn’t happen. You validated that mentally ill woman’s nutball theory and most likely that of hundreds of other wackos across your state- and the USA for that matter.
As an American living overseas, I’m frankly disappointed that I have to admit to everyone who knows me as the sole example of an American that they know first-hand, that there’s people in my motherland who are as full-tilt-boogie insane as you and the lady from DeKalb County.
*facepalm*
John K
April 21st, 2010
8:22 am
Sorry Rep. Setzler, when you hop in bed with the crazies, you get what you deserve.
jovan
April 21st, 2010
9:13 am
But, here is the thing: the Georgia state legislature wants to implant their OWN microchips inside of every woman to prevent her from exercising her God-given right to abortion.
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Freehawk
April 21st, 2010
10:33 am
Is Chip Pearson’s son named “Microchip?”
But I digress. Note that the bill does not prohibit microchips, just somebody requiring them to be implanted. Wouldn’t SATAN just ask nicely? He’s fairly persuasive, you know. I have just proved that our Legislators are not Satan, incidentally, because they are too darned stupid.
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the Captain
April 21st, 2010
12:06 pm
It seems that way, way, to many people here in GA some of whom apparently are even state legislators, don’t have a good enough grip on reality to understand the X-Files was fiction!
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YouGottaBeKiddingMe
April 21st, 2010
12:56 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA – the Department of Defense put the microchip in her hoo-hah? Okay. Gee Lady, if that’s the case ya think maybe the gubbmint isn’t the right authority to go to for recourse? Then again I guess it’s easier than dealing with the jurisdiction problems trying to go after the aliens that are probably the REAL cuprits!
Jimmy D
April 21st, 2010
1:03 pm
She’s obviously a Republican.
Jeremy
April 21st, 2010
1:26 pm
Ummmm, someone who is experiencing mysterious sensations isn’t necessarily crazy. It is not a crime to be technologically ignorant.
The fact is, electronic harassment technologies used in state-to-person warfare campaigns (think 21st century Stasi) don’t require implants.
http://areyoutargeted.com/orientation/electronic-harassment/
Really?
April 21st, 2010
2:00 pm
The Legislation: While the legislators should have other things to focus on during the worst economic crisis likely in American history, this does have it’s place. As early as 2006 a private sector company REQUIRED it’s datacenter employees to be chipped or lose their jobs. 2 of them got the chips (I don’t remember of how many). Had something like this been in place…
The Government: Is anyone really naive enough to believe that this sort of thing is beyond some of the people who work in our government? How then, do you explain the Tuskegee experiments, J Edgar Hoover, Sen. Joe McCarthy, 1980’s CIA drug running, Iran / Contra, the post 911 nationwide wiretapping and the corporate immunity for it? There’s a buzz starting too that there’s a declassified FBI report that might lend some credence to the famous NYC subway / LSD rumor.
Is the US government nothing but an Illuminati construct, and we it’s guinea pigs? No. Is it so honest, upright and principled the thought of citizens being abused is absurd? No.
The Witness: I know laughter is an interruptive defense mechanism, but c’maaaaan. The woman’s sick. Can you imagine LIVING that way? 24 hour fear and anxiety, not to mention whatever else is or isn’t going on in her head. Someone amongst a room full of elected officials likely sworn to serve, protect and defend it’s citizens should have gotten her some help. The whole thing’s sad.
Wasn’t This On An Episode Of “Outer Limits” | Revelations From An Unwashed Brain
April 21st, 2010
2:45 pm
[...] The Georgia House Judiciary Committee took up a bill that would "prohibit requiring a person to be implanted with a microchip," and would make violating the ban a misdemeanor. Things started to get weird at the hearing [...]
Chip implantation: banning a problem that doesn’t exist - SmartPlanet
April 21st, 2010
3:15 pm
[...] there’s much more pressing matters for state legislatures to take up. Just for kicks, read the anecdote included in Galloway’s column about a victim of an implanted chip and decide for yourself if these bans have even a whiff of [...]
Cathy in Virginia
April 21st, 2010
3:55 pm
Rep. Setzler, I do join you in hoping that this poor woman gets help for her mental illness. My first question to you is: haven’t you cut the state funding to mental health services that would allow her to get just the help she needs? My further question to you: Since the new health reform bill recently passed by Congress will provide parity for mental health treatment, and will allow citizens like this woman to receive treatment, why don’t you support it?
TJAtl
April 21st, 2010
7:04 pm
This poor woman obviously suffers from paranoid delusions. There is but a fine line between her condition and the priorities of many of our legislators.
Lary
April 21st, 2010
9:44 pm
I’ve got a better story than that. I was touring the White House a few months ago and something very strange happened. While entering a restroom I was tackled by sever large black suited sun glassed men. They wrestled me into the corner, pulled down my pants and low and behold, Nancy Pelocy crammed a small put painful electronic device strait up my ass! She told me that I was an experiment on body function control and would be monitored for six years.. She said that she was going to have one implanted in herself, but was told that she had too much stuff stuck up her ass. I feel fine with my new device and I don:t mind the government monitoring all my body functions.
Kathy
April 21st, 2010
10:04 pm
All I can say….what about the evidence and proof, especially since this is the judiciary committee….
This is a tragedy and a real embarassment for people in this state.
Jo Diggs
April 21st, 2010
10:18 pm
Wow, this is amazing stuff dude.
Lou
http://www.ultimate-privacy.at.tc
captain red defense
April 21st, 2010
10:24 pm
has anyone seen a microchip I seem to have misplaced?
Tom
April 21st, 2010
11:25 pm
I don’t understand these comments. Were you all so snark-happy when California passed the exact same law in 2008? And far from being an exercise in paranoia, the law was enacted in RESPONSE to employers who demanded that their workers be either implanted or fired. There’s already a precedent for this sort of thing. So to Brian who said, “Rep Setzler, what’s really regrettable about this incident is that you’re nutty enough to think that humans are actually implanted with microchips,” it turns out you’re right, people aren’t being implanted, but only because California has a law against it.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/420694/california_no_rfid_chip_implants_to.html?cat=17
Scott M
April 21st, 2010
11:38 pm
I cannot believe that people are this stupid…and seriously accepted testimony from a woman who is a half-step from mumbling to herself under a bridge somewhere.
But…welcome to the GOP Republican Party…where paranoia is kind, and rationality is “liberal”.
Scrawny Kayaker
April 22nd, 2010
12:10 am
Pharmacist “why are [Repug. legislators] entertaining this ‘make-believe’ topic?”
Because A. the Repugs are addicted to divisive non-issues to try to whip up their base, and B. they and their base are fundamentalist religious lunatics.
Colin Sparrow
April 22nd, 2010
1:30 am
OK so let me get this straight. The plans of the anti-christ to dominate the planet and herald in the sovereign rule of Lucifer will be thwarted by a piece of [American] State legislation? Cunning.
Deadeye626
April 22nd, 2010
8:53 am
If she hadn’t taken off her aluminum hat they would have all understood from the begining.
Michael
April 22nd, 2010
10:30 am
Yes, this woman likely is afflicted with schizophrenia. On the other hand, I wonder why the questions didn’t include “do you have an ex-ray showing this implant?”
The lack of curiosity is curious to me. Although the odds are against it, there are some cases of people being experimented on by elements within the CIA.
The fact that they didn’t event ask the obvious questions gives me pause.
On rare occasions, a so-called paranoid is correct.
Microchips and the Mark of the Beast | My Ivory Tower
April 22nd, 2010
11:28 am
[...] just passed a bill that bans microchip implantation in humans (Read about it at Pharyngula, or at Political Insider) [...]
J
April 22nd, 2010
12:13 pm
This is outrageous! I DEMAND the RIGHT to torture my co-workers using my cellphone and the microchips I implanted in them! I spend literally hours hiding injection-needles in their chairs so as to best implant chips deep in their butt-cheeks. And now the legislature has the temerity to ruin everything I and the Department of Defense and UFO Central Command have worked for! It’s positively un-Martian of them!
Sid the paranoid Socialist
April 22nd, 2010
2:02 pm
Not important, tragedy, embarrassment to the state, paranoid, nut case C,I,A or little Green men, I don’t know. But when I take my dog or cat to the vet you always have to fill out a form and on the form theres a check box next to that box it asks whether or not you want your dog or cat micro-chipped. Some day that check box won’t be there because they made some insignificant little law saying all animal must be IMPLANTED with a MICRO-CHIP. Fact is in some states they have already tried. Then one day you will see that same box on a form when we take our children for a check up at the doctors office. You’ll look up at the community cork board and see an ad the says, Stop worrying about where your children are. IMPLANT them with a MICRO-CHIP TODAY and let the worries go away. DON’T THINK JUST DO IT BEFORE ITS TO LATE!!!!! Brought to you by the F.O.C.M.D. ( Federal Observation of Citizen Movement Department). In fact right now in some places you can actually request for it( for the safety of your children of coarse).
This is how the suppression of a people or a nation is implemented into law slow and kept out of the news.
Besides in this country everybody deserves there day in the lime light no matter what the reason. Now think about it. That person just might of saved one of your loved ones from BEING TAGGED.
Sorry for the rant, Sid the paranoid Socialist
NA-193-2010-04-22 « No Agenda Show Notes
April 22nd, 2010
3:44 pm
[...] Delusions, the Legislature and an implanted microchip | Political Insider [...]
If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It « Iconoclasm
April 22nd, 2010
3:51 pm
[...] } I just couldn’t resist mentioning this little gem out of Georgia. Apparently, the state legislature passed a bill prohibiting microchips from being [...]
Steve
April 22nd, 2010
5:25 pm
Don’t these guys have staffers who are supposed to do gruntwork like, oh, I don’t know, check on the people who are being invited to give testimony to make sure it’s not a raving lunatic who will make their bosses look like idiots?
devin
April 22nd, 2010
7:28 pm
Ok, now, clearly this woman might be off axis just a hair, but how hard would it have been to conduct a test for the device? One x-ray and its over. This may actually have happened but we just didn’t hear about in the story, but I’m just saying.
Impanting Microchips Into Humans in Georgia
April 23rd, 2010
7:07 am
[...] Link [...]
» The Georgia House Bill To Prohibit Involuntary Implatation Of Microchips Into Citizens Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.
April 23rd, 2010
8:01 am
[...] Judiciary Committee entertained SB 235, the bill sponsored by Sen. Chip Pearson (R-Dawsonville) to prohibit the involuntary implantation of microchips in human [...]
CommonSenser
April 23rd, 2010
8:16 am
Hey, Scrawny Kayaker: It’s called triage. You deal with what is most important first. Like creating jobs in GA, not a possible future problem! Can you distinguish between the two? Are you dealing with reality? If microchip implantation is predicted to be such a problem, then why not pass a law against mind reading???
Yep, anything will come out of California. So, why are we even metering GA against CA?
Nope, not every conservative is luny! If that were the case, every liberal would be a Nancy Pelosi twin! This proves liberals just cannot think independently, doesn’t it? Liberals “feel” instead of “think”!!!!
ron cee
April 23rd, 2010
8:40 am
@Pharmacist: Before I vote for another Georgia candidate, I will evaluate their fitness to serve in the Georgia legislature!!! ……….
You should have done that with your very first vote and every subsequent vote.
Ian Al Simers
April 23rd, 2010
12:28 pm
Keep on laughing folks! Your legislature actually read the ENTIRE federal health care bill and IT IS IN THERE! I think they should be applauded for standing up to the Feds and drawing the line! But you will see and understand when the jackboots come for you. You won’t be laughing anymore!
-V-
April 23rd, 2010
12:54 pm
remember, remember, the 4th of November. By November this year, ALL will see the Luciferians at work. The Aliens will be visible and we fight or submit!!! Listen to Ian Al Simers, a decorated veteran of WW2 and defender of Liberty, he abhors the Saller ation of Barafrica!!!!!!!
Ian Al Simers
April 23rd, 2010
1:09 pm
Hey -V- that’s the fifth (ya know, like your whiskey) of November! Otherwise you are totally correct! I’ve killed many during my time in the armed forces and I don’t have to apologize to anyone, including satan-worshiping Lib-tard Bomb-ites!
Sean
April 23rd, 2010
4:16 pm
Now I am going to have nightmares about the Government
I knew this was coming though It is just a matter of time before they will suggest tracking chips implanted. First will be Sex Offenders and Dangerous felons, Next in the military and then in Children all in the name of “Public Safety” The sad part is some people will think this is a goos idea
No Agenda 193 « MLManley
April 23rd, 2010
8:13 pm
[...] Delusions, the Legislature and an implanted microchip | Political Insider [...]
Jonathan
April 23rd, 2010
9:00 pm
I want a microchip….particularly the one that vibrates when legislators do stupid things. But I would need a battery the size of a house to keep it running when appropriate.
Pay a Attention
April 24th, 2010
1:51 am
I guess all of you have never heard of Verichip Corporation, it was resently bought out by PositiveID and they want to put chips in everybody.
PositiveID Corporation Headquarters
1690 South Congress Avenue
Suite 200
Delray Beach, Florida 33445
Ph: 561-805-8000
Fax: 561-805-8001
Word: Microchips ain’t the problem | Fresh Loaf
April 24th, 2010
12:22 pm
[...] Commenter “Tim White” on Galloway’s [...]
dave
April 25th, 2010
7:40 am
they DO want to microchip pets, and there is commercial micro-chipping of kids available (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/10/60771)….
as paranoid and as much a non issue as this is, maybe making sure it can not be done without knowledgeable consent isn’t a horrible idea
zippo zeddie
April 26th, 2010
9:34 am
Thank you Georgia! I’m feeling better now. Here in Maryland the only weird legislation this year was to ban marriage of first cousins because it would cause an epidemic of web-footed idiots. It didn’t pass. Apparently the web-footed idiots in the legislature stopped it. Can we send you some?
News of the Weird / Pro Edition (April 26, 2010) | Jukke
April 26th, 2010
4:11 pm
[...] Testifying for a Georgia bill to ban unconsensual microchip-implanting in humans was a very helpful citizen complaining about her own plight. “Just imagine, if you will, having a beeper in your rectum or genital area . . . and your beeper numbers displayed on billboards throughout the city.” (By this time, the bill’s supporters in the room are averting their eyes, staring at the crown molding, imagining the Georgia Bulldogs’ 2010 prospects.) “This microchip was put in my vaginal-rectum area . . . by researchers with the . . . Department of Defense.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution [...]
The Great Geek Manual » Link Round-Up: April 20, 2010
April 29th, 2010
7:46 am
[...] Sonny Perdue to sign it into law (or reveal that he’s in the pocket of Big Microchip). The transcript of testimony before the house in favor of this legislation is truly eye-opening. Rachel Maddow had it re-enacted [...]
Georgia Legislature Considers Banning Microchips In Humans, Hears Testimony of Crazy Person; Pat Bertroche Suggests Microchips For Illegal Aliens | Popehat
April 29th, 2010
5:42 pm
[...] legislature recently held hearings on a bill that would steadfastly announce the position of the Great State of Georgia: nobody may be [...]
Anon
May 7th, 2010
2:50 pm
If only we lived in a country where it is assumed that the government does not have ANY power that hasn’t been explicitly given to it by the people. Unfortunately, we don’t. We live in a country where the government is assumed to have any power that isn’t explicitly forbidden to it.
For that reason, the bill described in this article is a good one. It shouldn’t be necessary, but it is. Rarely do politicians proactively address problems, preventing them instead of reacting to them. This is one case of a clear threat to liberty that is being proactively addressed.
Make no mistake, there are people in our government that would love to make all persons in the country (and even in the world), submit to biometric implants that cannot be safely removed (and there are many techniques to ensure this). Those people will argue, after some disaster like 9/11, that national security and the safety of children require that we make “this tiny sacrifice that won’t impact our lives at all”. They will also say that if you have done nothing wrong or have nothing to hide, then you should have no objections to this imposition.
And yes, there are advantages to having such devices forces into people. Fighting terrorism, identity theft, finding murderers and pedophiles. But remember this. More people have been murdered by Hitler and Stalin each than have been killed by all the terrorists and all the criminals in all of human history. The power of the government to torture, kill, steal, and maim far exceeds that of any or all criminals.
That is why this bill is good. For those who think that no one in government would propose forcing such implants into people, remember this. No one thought that anyone in government would legalize torture or suspend habeas corpus, but that is exactly what the USA Patriot act did. It always happens the same way: you start with violating the rights of “terrorists” and “criminals” and once the sheeple get use to that, you can do the same to them.
Reynard
June 8th, 2010
1:53 am
devin; ‘Ok, now, clearly this woman might be off axis just a hair, but how hard would it have been to conduct a test for the device? One x-ray and its over.’
See, *THAT’S* the problem. They (the bat-sh*t-crazies) don’t *want* it to be “over”. Because as long as people *listen* to them they get elected to office, write their bat-sh*t-crazy laws, and hold hearings so that equally bat-sh*t-crazy crazies will know that they’re doing their jobs (or will at least *look* like they’re doing their jobs) and are keeping Satan from taking over (at least in Georgia) and can get elected to another term so that they can start the bat-sh*t-craziness all over again.
Notice that I never said anything about *passing* those laws. *Passing* these things is not the point. Even if crap like this *NEVER* passes, it’s okay with them. The whole point is simply to give the target constituency (the bat-sh*tters) a good show and, come election time, be able to tell them that they fought the good fight against The Great Satanic Microchip and it’s Evil OWG Hoard…whether that “fight” had any *actual* effect or not…
South Cobb Showdowns › Blog for Democracy
June 24th, 2010
4:37 pm
[...] has done some things that are controversial in Georgia Democratic circles such as calling Ed "Microchip" Setzler "a great educational leader," and taking $4600 from that bigot Eric Johnson in exchange for pushing [...]
Ought humans be microchipped? - PersonalityCafe
June 24th, 2010
11:42 pm
[...] [...]
Paul Philp
July 10th, 2010
7:26 pm
I am under technological assault by verbal input in my brain, visual input as well. There has been a great deal of physical torture and now what I understand to be gang stalking, harrassment throughout my community. I live a nightmare. I need help. I live in Seattle. Can you help me get this chip removed?
Paul Philp
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Denise Johnson
July 26th, 2010
7:49 pm
Who makes the SB 235 and BC-19?
Really, how can this be made and not regulated as to where it is going and who has to have it?
Can you be tested to find out if you have an illegal implant or one at all?
Where can you go to get rid of it?
We do live in bio-terrorist society, so anyone could simply have been implanted with one or even ingested one. Example by, foods eaten or medical examinations. Please send emaill reply and update ..
thank you,
Denise Johnson
July 26th, 2010
8:00 pm
This is a good web site.. It is really about time we look inside the technology for the side of the public vs the quite manufacturer.
Please tell just how do you find out if you have something like this implanted..??
Can you have test done and what is the recommened test?
Send to email in comments previously submitted. thxs
slickjackson
August 19th, 2010
1:33 pm
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another victim
August 28th, 2010
10:06 am
OK gentleman. I want you to think about sexual trafficking, for a minute. Ever see “Taken” w/ Liam Neeson? Sexual trafficking has gone high tech. Now. Have you seen the “island of dr. monroe” w/ val kilmer? (yes, bad horrific-fiction movie, but work with me on this). Remember the “remote” the doc used to control the animal/men?
Imagine an already traumatized young woman or child that has been taken from their home or country, and imagine their horror at waking up after being drugged to find that they are being shocked in their rectum/genetalia if they do not obey. It’s a form of control, as it’s physical/emotional and psychological.
Soo laugh all you want, but this crap IS HAPPENING NOW.
another victim
August 28th, 2010
10:19 am
Think of it this way. We take our dogs to the vet to get microchipped. It’s done thru an injection-type process. Animals have been tagged with bio sensors in science FOR DECADES.
As another example, you know those TENS units that people get for their backs that administer muscle stimulation/shocking sensations to cover pain? First the technology was with electrodes and tethered leads to the unit. Then it went wireless. Now you can go to a pain clinic and get tiny electrodes injected in your back. You can administer the shock/stimulation to cover up the pain, and it’s very effective.
But there are monsters injecting this technology other places. Look at it logically. If there really was this technology (and it has been here for well over 20 years), wouldnt it make sense that SOMEONE would be abusing it? Wouldnt it make remarkable sense that if you were a human trafficker controling the product that you could administer control without harming the merchandice? Now, if that woman was overweight and unattractive, i cannot fathom why she would be chipped.
Ok, now think about revenge. And people that could sell revenge. Think they would use this as part of their revenge package?
That Senator/Representative wouldnt have used that woman’s testimony if she hadnt had medical documentation to back it up. It would have been political suicide. OH IT’S HAPPENING.
another victim
September 7th, 2010
9:41 pm
Oh yes, it’s so very funny. Imagine a young child that has been taken from her home. Let’s say maybe she’s 14 or so…Old enough to be sensitive of her growing womanhood, and young enough to no know that bad things happen to good people sometimes.
So – she’s taken and sold, let’s just say. Are you uncomfortable yet? Because you SHOULD BE. Then, imagine the horror, after being raped and tortured repeatedly…Imagine the horror that CHILD goes thru when one of her rapists takes out something that looks at a tv remote, points it at her, and then she is shocked in her vagina. Isnt that a freaking riot? So, yes, i’m sure you feel uncomfortable. IMAGINE the embarassement and horror this woman had to go thru to even get to the point where she could stand before others and tell her story, AND YOU THINK IT’S FUNNY? Well, perhaps karma will reward you for your compassion. We can only hope.