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You are about to read very strange information.

1984 or The Manchurian Candidate may be the closest you’ve got to studying manipulative human agencies of questionable intent. Use your mind and Google/Yahoo. Everything that is said can be checked. Much of this information has already been published in the daily national papers

Implantable chips of varying degrees of complexity, function and implant location may well have a significant role in the future of our society to judge by the investors and the amount invested. Here we have an historical overview, a present study, and a consideration of future trajectory — the latter infused with a Christian perspective.

Historical overview

In 1866, Simonoff conducted the first experiment using electrodes implanted in the brain stem of mammals. In 1948, Norbert Weiner said, ‘Those of us who have contributed to the new science of cybernetics thus stand in a moral position not very comfortable. We have contributed to the initiation of a new science which embraces technical developments with great possibilities for good and for evil.’

When John Lilly was asked in 1953 by the director of the National Institute of Mental Health to brief the CIA, FBI, NSA (and others) on his work using electrodes to stimulate the pain and pleasure centres of the brain, he refused, commenting: ‘Dr. Antoine Remond, using our techniques in Paris, has demonstrated that this method of stimulation of the brain can be applied to the human without the help of the neuro-surgeon; he is doing it in his office in Paris without neuro-surgical supervision. This means that anybody with the proper apparatus can carry this out on a person covertly, with no external signs that electrodes have been used on that person. I feel that if this technique got into the hands of a secret agency, they would have total control over a human being and be able to change his beliefs extremely quickly, leaving little evidence of what they had done.’

Charging bull and Huxley

In a New York Times article on May 17 1965, it was related that Dr. Jose Delgado brought a charging bull to a halt right before him at the touch of a button, then at a second touch the bull ‘turned to the right and trotted away. The bull was obeying commands in his brain that were being called forth by electrical stimulation — by radio signals — of certain regions in which the fine wires had been painlessly implanted the day before.’

Nine years later this man said: ‘Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated... By electrical stimulation of specific cerebral structures, movements can be induced by radio command, hostility may appear or disappear, social hierarchy can be modified, sexual behaviour may be changed, and memory, emotions, and the thinking process may be influenced by remote control... Transmitters have no batteries, are activated by radio, and can be used for life, so that the brain can be stimulated indefinitely.’

Perhaps this is why, in 1962, Aldous Huxley stated his warnings and concerns in a lecture at Berkeley Language Center:

‘...anybody who has watched the behaviour of rats with electrodes placed in different centres must come away from this experience with the most extraordinary doubts about what on earth is in store for us if this is got a hold of by a dictator...

‘Now, I think what is obviously perfectly clear is that for the present these techniques are not being used except in an experimental way, but I think it is important for us to realise what is happening, to make ourselves acquainted with what has already happened, and then use a certain amount of imagination to extrapolate into the future the sort of things that might happen. What might happen if these fantastically powerful techniques were used by unscrupulous people in authority, what on earth would happen, what sort of society would we get?’

Electronic tag

The May 22 1995 Washington Times reported: ‘Prince William, 12, second in line to the British throne, is to be electronically “tagged” when he enters Eton this fall. Officials decided that in order to give William as much freedom of movement as possible in the “security nightmare” of such a big school, an electronic tag was the answer. It was not specified whether the boy would wear an electronic device or have one implanted.’

On July 2 1995, the Washington Post reported on Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma city bomber: ‘In Decker, he told some people the Army had implanted a microchip in his buttocks so the government could spy on him.’

Allow me to now merely refer to a number of subsequent interesting items:

2002: A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) military Brain Machine Interface article showed that research has continued apace.

2004: Matthew Nagle, paralysed from the neck down, was implanted with a brain computer interface called BrainGate, enabling him to control a computer ‘mouse’ cursor and press its button.

Mexico’s attorney general and 17 people in his office were implanted with VeriChips in their triceps that gave them exclusive access to secure areas in their headquarters.
Baja Beach Club (Spain) became the first club in the world to use the implantable VeriChip as a means of gaining access to and buying drinks in its VIP lounge.

Japanese authorities decided RFID (Radio Frequency ID) based ‘tracking is best way to protect kids’.

2005: In January, Bar Soba, Glasgow, became the first UK club to do the same thing.

‘With a wave of his hand Amal Graafstra in Vancouver, Canada, opens his front door. With another, he logs onto his computer. A tiny RFID computer chip inserted into his hands make it all possible.’

‘Pierce, a Rhesus monkey, can feed himself a grape every few seconds with a prosthetic arm by the power of thought alone, thanks to a microchip.’

2006: London’s Oyster RFID travel card system, promoted as ‘Faster, smarter, cheaper’, was criticised for allowing security services and others detailed access to owners’ travel movements.

VeriChip lobbied the Pentagon to replace the US military’s 1.4 million soldiers’ dog tags.

Future trajectory

At Imperial College, London, there is an Oracle backed project to provide implanted sensors that can monitor the body’s critical faculties and relay them via the patient’s mobile to their doctor. The 2005 Times article covering this indicated that such technology could benefit all ‘17.5 million people in Britain [who] have one or more chronic diseases of varying severity’. Already more than 600 US hospitals have agreed to participate in the VeriMed Network (using VeriChip detection to instantly ID and access the medical history of anyone who comes into A & E). The benefits are real and being marketed well.

Aaron Russo, a well-connected film maker and political figure (though perhaps most famous for producing Trading Places with Eddie Murphy), reported that at one point, while in a discussion with Nick Rockefeller (of the Rockefeller Foundation), he asked him ‘What is your end goal?’

To control society

‘The end goal is to get everybody chipped’, Nick Rockefeller replied, ‘to control the whole society, to have the bankers, the elite people in control of the world.’

The unbelieving rulers in the Book of Kings were rarely benevolent even to their own people — thus an optimistic view for the application of this technology lacks scriptural support. Weiner in 1948 and Huxley in 1962 were informed, but exceedingly uncomfortable with this technology because of its potential for evil. After 50 years of largely secret research by the military-industrial complexes, it would seem na•ve for Christians with a view of the human ‘heart as deceitful above all things and desperately wicked’, to take a more positive view. It will surely not be used purely for good.

‘Mankind barely noticed when the concept of massively organised information quietly emerged to become a means of social control, a weapon of war, and a roadmap for group destruction.’ Edwin Black, in IBM and the Holocaust, is talking about IBM’s Hollerith machine, used to process German census data. IBM have remained interested in human tracking technology: they patented an RFID based human tracking system in 2001, were VeriChip’s creditor in 2003 and have called for a UN enforced global identity system.

The first director of UNESCO wrote in 1946: ‘Though any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.’ Comforting words from the people IBM would like to involve.

Those verses…

‘He also forced everyone to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name… There is no rest day or night for… anyone who receives the mark of his name’ (Revelation 13.16-17 & 14.11).

Though many Christians take a primarily spiritual interpretation of these verses, some believe this technology could pave the way for a literal fulfilment and consequentially are totally opposed to being implanted. Either way, the pain we read about in Revelation will surely come to pass, as the words describing the vision our Master gave John two millennia ago still continue their irresistible roll to the appointed, terrifying and glorious end — and we’ll still have the Word, the Light of the World, guiding us as clear as day through any valley of the shadow of death.

Thomas Seidler

For an extended, fully referenced version of this article, see http://www.harmlesswise.com/0706-implantable-chips

Questioning the future world influence of implantable microchips