{"id":3142,"date":"2006-06-02T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2017-12-20T10:37:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:37:42","slug":"proposal-to-test-and-produce-manuals-on-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/02\/proposal-to-test-and-produce-manuals-on-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposal to Test and Produce Manuals on Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/scienceoffiction\/060531_rfid_chips.html\" target=\"_new\">Good idea<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scott Silverman, <b>Chairman of the Board of VeriChip Corporation<\/b>, has proposed implanting <b>the company&#8217;s RFID tracking tags<\/b> in immigrant and guest workers. He made the statement on national television on May 16.<\/p>\n<p>Silverman was being interviewed on &#8220;Fox &#038; Friends.&#8221; Responding to the Bush administration&#8217;s call to know &#8220;who is in our country and why they are here,&#8221; he proposed using VeriChip RFID implants to register workers at the border, and then verify their identities in the workplace. He added, &#8220;We have talked to many people in Washington about using it&#8230;.&#8221; [Emphasis added.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So pardon me if I don&#8217;t immediately begin my natural libertarian hyperventilation based on this non-story.  You&#8217;ve got the evangelist for a company saying that its product is the solution for whatever problem you have.  That&#8217;s what evangelists do, often preposterously.<\/p>\n<p>I, on the other hand, as head of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeracor.com\" target=\"_new\">Jeracor, LLC.<\/a>, think what we really need to do, with copious buckets of federal money with little accountability attached, is Rapid Interface Testing and Documentation on immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t know what it means?  Well, first we&#8217;ll need a federal grant to explore that.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.  And don&#8217;t forget me, Senators Bond and Talent.  I&#8217;m in your state!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good idea! Scott Silverman, Chairman of the Board of VeriChip Corporation, has proposed implanting the company&#8217;s RFID tracking tags in immigrant and guest workers. He made the statement on national television on May 16. Silverman was being interviewed on &#8220;Fox &#038; Friends.&#8221; Responding to the Bush administration&#8217;s call to know &#8220;who is in our country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18729,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions\/18729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}