Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 27, 2012

San Antonio, Texas is known to millions as the home of the Alamo ? a monument to principled defiance of a tyrannical government. On August 27, the city will be the scene of a small but significant protest inspired by the desire to beat back the relentless encroachment of the Surveillance State.

More than 4,000 inmates of San Antonio?s government schools have been conscripted into a pilot program involving mandatory tracking with ID tags containing embedded RFID computer chips. The so-called ?Student Locator Pilot? badges must be worn at all times, and will be monitored through a system of undetectable sensors.

The protest in San Antonio was organized by Dr. Katherine Albrecht, founder and director of a privacy watchdog group called CASPIAN. Dr. Albrecht has written several detailed studies of the use of embedded RFID chips as part of a comprehensive system that has been called ?human inventory control.? The objective is to make everything each of us does completely transparent to those who presume to rule us.

The RFID technology has inspired considerable opposition among people jealous of their privacy. The public school system, however, offers an ideal environment in which to test elements of this system using a captive population.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.