Applied Digital Solutions And Digital Angel™

The Trouble With Digital Angels

by Thomas Horn

Christian News at Worthy News

Several weeks ago a disturbing secular news story grabbed my
attention. Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) received patent
rights to new technology named Digital Angel (TM). What's
bothersome is that Digital Angel is a miniature digital
transceiver specifically designed for human implantation
(original patent info).

According to ADS, "The implantable transceiver sends and
receives data and can be continuously tracked by GPS (Global
Positioning Satellite) technology. The transceiver's power
supply and actuation system are unlike anything ever
created. When implanted within a body, the device is powered
electromechanically through the movement of muscles, and it
can be activated either by the 'wearer' or by the monitoring
facility."

In a company press release dated February 15th, ADS stated
that "Digital Angel has generated a large and positive
response from both the investing public and those who are
interested in participating in the wide array of
applications for this technology."

ADS also claims that Digital Angel has "a variety of
potential uses, such as providing a tamper-proof means of
identification for enhanced e-business security, animal
tracking, locating lost or missing individuals, tracking the
location of valuable property and monitoring the medical
conditions of at-risk patients."

To further advocate Digital Angel technology, Applied
Digital Solutions launched a website
http://www.digitalangel.net where viewers can peruse
diagrams and read summary information. Although still in the
developmental stage, a prototype of the device is scheduled
for release by the end of 2000.

Other manufacturers of sub-skin implants have quietly
field-tested similar devices over the past few years. The
London Times reported in October 1998, "Film stars and the
children of millionaires are among 45 people, including
several Britons, who have been fitted with the chips (called
the Sky Eye) in secret tests."

Due to civil liberty and privacy issues, the ACLU announced
opposition to mandatory microchip implantation when applied
to humans. The ACLU is certain to be a strange bedfellow of
Christians and conservatives concerning this issue.

THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY?

Many Christians believe that, before long, an antichrist
system will appear. It will be a New World Order, under
which national boundaries dissolve, and ethnic groups,
ideologies, religions, and economics from around the world,
orchestrate a single and dominant sovereignty. Such a system
will supposedly be free of religious and political extremes,
and membership will tolerate the philosophical and cultural
differences of its constituents. Except for minor
nonconformities, war, intolerance, and hunger will be a
thing of the past.

According to popular Biblical interpretation, a single
personality will surface at the head of the utopian
administration. He will appear as a man of distinguished
character, but will ultimately become "a king of fierce
countenance" (Dan. 8:23). With imperious decree the
Antichrist will facilitate a one-world government, universal
religion, and globally monitored socialism. Those who refuse
his New World Order will inevitably be imprisoned or
destroyed, until at last he exalts himself "above all that
is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he, as God,
sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is
God" (2 Thess. 2:4).

The Antichrist's widespread power will be derived at the
expense of individual human liberties. He will force "all,
both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond to
receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the
mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the
number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his
number is Six hundred threescore and six [666]"
(Rev. 13:16-18).

For many years the idea that humans could somehow succumb to
little more than branded cattle, and that rugged
individualism would thereafter be sacrificed for an
anesthetized universal harmony, was repudiated by America's
greatest minds. Then, in the 1970's, things began to change.
Following a call by Nelson Rockefeller for the creation of a
"New World Order," presidential candidate Jimmy Carter
campaigned, saying, "We must replace balance of power
politics with world order politics."

During the 1980's President George Bush continued the
one-world dirge, announcing over national television that "a
New World Order" had arrived. Following the initial
broadcast, President Bush addressed the Congress, saying,

What is at stake is more than one small country [Kuwait], it
is a big idea--a new world order, where diverse nations are
drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal
aspirations of mankind: peace and security, freedom, and the
rule of law. Such is a world worthy of our struggle, and
worthy of our children's future!

Ever since the President's astonishing newscast, a parade of
political and religious leaders have discharged a profusion
of rhetoric aimed at implementing the goals of a New World
Order. In his Friday Fax, Austin Ruse of Catholic Family &
Human Rights Institute (www.c-fam.org) wrote:

The 55th annual meeting of the UN General Assembly next fall
will go by the name of the Millennium Assembly. The
resolution calling for this special meeting of the Member
States said, 'The year 2000 constitutes a unique and
symbolically compelling moment to articulate and affirm an
animating vision for the United Nations in the new era.' The
Member States also look upon the new meeting as an
opportunity to 'strengthen the role of the United Nations.'

Austin continues:

At the same time as the GA's Millennium Assembly, Secretary
General Kofi Annan will host a shorter 'Millennium Summit'
that will deal with a broad range of themes including 'the
role and function of the UN,' 'towards a global society,'
'new challenges to multi-lateralism in the era of
globalization,' 'international cooperation,' and 'promoting
peace and sustainable development of mankind.' The
Millennium Summit will also deal with human rights. Radical
notions of reproductive 'rights' and population control
generally enter the UN debate through the concepts of human
rights and 'sustainable development.'

Developers of biometric implant chips employ similar
language to announce compatible global technologies, and
many Americans consider electronically marking humans or
implanting a series of digital equations under the skin to
be the natural progress of advancing and necessary
technologies.

Photo to the left: 1980 defense department cartoon showing a
change taking place in Defense Management. A runner hands
over plans for national defense to another runner with
"666" on his track suit.

IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE

Dr. Carl W. Sanders worked on the development of microchips
for human implantation. He now believes such chips will be
the Biblical Mark of the Beast. Writing for the June-July
edition of Nexus, he says, "There are bills before congress
right now that will allow them to inject a microchip in your
child at the time of birth for identification purposes. The
president of the United States of America, under the
Emigration of Control Act of 1996, Section 100, has the
authority to deem whatever type of identification is
necessary - whether it be an invisible tattoo or electronic
media under the skin. So I think you have to look at the
facts, folks: this is not coming as some big shock. The
paving has been done ahead of time." (Click here to read an
excerpt from the Nexus article)

Has the paving indeed been done ahead of time? The following
are a few examples:

As far back as 1973, Senior Scholastics introduced school
age children to the concept of buying and selling using
numbers inserted in the forehead. In the September 20, 1973
feature "Who Is Watching You?" the secular high school
journal speculated:

"All buying and selling in the program will be done by
computer. No currency, no change, no checks. In the program,
people would receive a number that had been assigned them
tattooed in their wrist or forehead. The number is put on by
laser beam and cannot be felt. The number in the body is not
seen with the naked eye and is as permanent as your
fingerprints. All items of consumer goods will be marked
with a computer mark. The computer outlet in the store which
picks up the number on the items at the checkstand will also
pick up the number in the person's body and automatically
total the price and deduct the amount from the person's
'Special Drawing Rights' account."

Bar codes began appearing in grocery stores a few years
after the article above. Some claim that all such codes
contain the number 666 (explantation)

In the 1974 article "The Specter of Eugenics," Charles
Frankel pointed out Linus Pauling's (Nobel Prize winner)
suggestions that a mark be tattooed on the foot or forehead
of every young person. Pauling envisioned a mark denoting
genotype.

In 1980, U.S. News and World Report continued the warning,
pointing out that the Federal Government was contemplating
"National Identity Cards," without which nobody could work
or conduct business.

The Denver Post Sun followed up in 1981, claiming that chip
implants could someday replace I.D. cards. The June 21, 1981
story read in part, "The chip is placed in a needle which is
affixed to a simple syringe containing an anti-bacterial
solution. The needle is capped and ready to forever identify
something--or somebody."

The May 7, 1996 Chicago Tribune questioned whether we could
trust Big Brother under our skin?

In 1997 applications for patents of subcutaneous implant
devices for "a person or an animal" are applied for (see
documentation).

The April 27, 1998, edition of Time Magazine runs the story,
The Big Bank Theory And What It Says About The Future OF
Money, in which they opine "Your daughter can store the
money any way she wants--on her laptop, on a debit card,
even (in the not too distant future) on a chip implanted
under her skin."

In August 1998 the BBC covered the first known human
microchip implantation. (see documentation)

That same month the Sunday Oregonian warned that proposed
medical identifiers might erode privacy rights by tracking
individuals through alphanumeric health identifier
technologies. The startling Oregonian feature depicted
humans with barcodes in their foreheads.

Bionics technology is attempting to create organisms that
contain linked organic (human cells) material with biometric
chips for human implantation (documentation site)

Now it's the year 2000, and Digital Angel has arrived.

WILL DIGITAL "MARKS" SOON BE MANDATORY?

Microchip implantation is currently introduced as a
voluntary procedure. But a report written by Elaine M.
Ramish for the Franklin Pierce Law Center says, "A
[mandatory] national identification system via microchip
implants could be achieved in two stages: Upon introduction
as a voluntary system, the microchip implantation will
appear to be palatable. After there is a familiarity with
the procedure and a knowledge of its benefits, implantation
would be mandatory."

Writing for WorldNetDaily.com (Concern over microchip
implants, 1999), Jon E. Dougherty quoted George Getz, the
communications director for the Libertarian Party:

After all, the government has never forced anyone to have a
driver license, [but] try getting along without one, when
everyone from your local banker to the car rental man to the
hotel operator to the grocery store requires one in order
for you to take advantage of their services, that amounts to
a de facto mandate. If the government can force you to
surrender your fingerprints to get a drivers license, why
can't it force you to get a computer chip implant? These are
differences in degree, not in kind--which is why it's
essential to fight government privacy invasions from the
outset.

As Social Security numbers were first voluntary, then
mandatory, biometric chip implants are universally
inevitable unless citizens rise up in immediate and national
opposition. People like Mr. Getz may be on to something.
Conservatives and liberals alike better contact state and
federal representatives while they still can and demand
immediate protection. Laws preserving individual rights need
to be enacted by Congress before Digital Angel and similar
forces lead humanity down a high-tech path of no return.

And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice,
If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his
mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink
of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without
mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be
tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the
holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke
of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they
have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his
image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name"
(Rev. 14:9-11).