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JackRiddler

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13. Sure, but absolutely not the point.

Mon Dec 10, 2012, 12:46 PM

Dec 2012

This has to be stopped right now.

Not by a few breaking the chips. All this means is that in a few years, the chips will be accepted and there will be a crackdown on chip-breaking as though it's a horrific vandalism.

This is outrageous - even if a majority want to assent like fools.

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Protestors rally around student who refuses to wear tracking microchip [View all] HiPointDem Dec 2012 OP

It shouldn't have to conflict with her religious beliefs. LWolf Dec 2012 #1

They don't protest because many are bred to be serfs and lemmings, many don't look outside of RKP5637 Dec 2012 #4

I swear you and I are related in some way... dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #36

Yep, I think so too! RKP5637 Dec 2012 #37

Or they actually support it. progressoid Dec 2012 #39

Yes, that is probably quite true. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #40

agreed. yet i have read a lot of folks (fools? shills?) making comments like this: HiPointDem Dec 2012 #8

Apples and oranges. LWolf Dec 2012 #46

yes. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #47

One step more and they will be doing surgical implants, you know, do it for the children. We RKP5637 Dec 2012 #2

with her religious beliefs former-republican Dec 2012 #3

The Bible makes a mention of the anti-Christ having a mark so everyone will know. FSogol Dec 2012 #6

I remember the thing of social security numbers former-republican Dec 2012 #9

Couldn't you just conceivably take a pair of needle nose pliers and FSogol Dec 2012 #5

Sure, but absolutely not the point. JackRiddler Dec 2012 #13

schools in other districts are also going to try this justabob Dec 2012 #26

That's why it has to be fought everywhere it starts. JackRiddler Dec 2012 #28

agreed! justabob Dec 2012 #29

The chip will have poison that would be released upon tampering and a gps which would rhett o rick Dec 2012 #41

and only the school nurse has the antidote? FSogol Dec 2012 #44

I was in love with the school nurse. But that's another story. nm rhett o rick Dec 2012 #45

What the hell newfie11 Dec 2012 #7

WTF?? WilliamPitt Dec 2012 #10

I don't understand how the tracking device is supposed to work. sadbear Dec 2012 #11

if they don't go to school, they give the badge to one of their bffs to take for them. ellenfl Dec 2012 #12

You are not missing anything. RC Dec 2012 #31

"...boost revenues lost due to absences." Quantess Dec 2012 #14

Posted the same question at the same time. What does that even mean??? Matariki Dec 2012 #17

It's a public school in Texas. sadbear Dec 2012 #18

Most states including attendance in their school funding formula hack89 Dec 2012 #34

WHAT does this mean - "to boost revenues lost due to absences" ??? Matariki Dec 2012 #15

no justabob Dec 2012 #24

My take on that statement: They are selling the data on where the kids go FSogol Dec 2012 #33

Most states including attendance in their school funding formula hack89 Dec 2012 #35

When do taxpayers get a chip? sarcasmo Dec 2012 #16

If your passport is new, you already have one. Panasonic Dec 2012 #20

Now that, I don't mind so much. Quantess Dec 2012 #23

I didn't know that, though I should have guessed... TeeYiYi Dec 2012 #25

Hmmm Oilwellian Dec 2012 #38

RFID chips can be destroyed by rare earth magnets Panasonic Dec 2012 #19

like A DOG COLLAR quinnox Dec 2012 #21

Student ankle monitors. sarcasmo Dec 2012 #22

That this is happening in a for-profit prison state, doesn't surprise me. TeeYiYi Dec 2012 #27

ARghhh....I was really hoping beyond hope it was some other cities Rex Dec 2012 #30

"The district said it decided to trial the technology to boost revenues lost due to absences." Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #32

They aren't even pretending to care about the students. Mariana Dec 2012 #42

RFID tracking of the past Ya Basta Dec 2012 #43