Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Crazy Crap / Legislature / Woods Christian Right Backs 'Mark of the Beast' Bill in Legislature
Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:15 PM
"The people that were taken into concentration camps, they were marked on their body. They were tattooed. That wasn't repulsive simply because they were innocents. ... That was repulsive because the government was actually altering, labeling their body, and we realize it is a violation of civil rights to have the government do this against your will. If we could just think about that, because sometimes you forget things like that. I really think of it as a civil right, that the government should not have so much power over you that they can put something in your body to identify you. And they do cause cancer and they can migrate as well."The subcommittee decided to delay voting on Lynn's bill for a week, but Pith predicts this will actually become law in Tennessee, joining the long list of wacky wingnuttery making it into the statute books under the new Republican majority in Tennessee. Update: In Virginia, the House is voting on a bill like Lynn's. The Washington Post reports it would ban employers or insurance companies from slapping a microchip into your scalp. Plus, it "might also save humanity from the antichrist." It's an anti-antichrist measure!
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Gotta be something in the water up there at the capital that is making these people insane.
Jeff, would it be too much to ask for you to include some basic information such as the name of the bill, or at least the bill number, and the identity of the Senate sponsor (assuming there is one)?
ps. My dog Rachel has a microchip implanted between her shoulder blades; many people, including our mutual friend Action Andy, believe that Rachel is Satan's familiar. Perhaps Rep. Lynn has a point.
"No one should be discriminated against just because they don't have an electronic chip under their skin."
I think Isaac Asimov said that.
Or maybe it was Martin Luther King.
Geez, people, I gotta do everything?
here it is, HB2059/SB0153 (Ketron)
http://wapp.legislature.state.tn.us/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HB2059
Invocations of Godwin's Law aside, this Bill isn't so crazy. Do none of you read or watch sci fi? Do you want to live in the type of society portrayed in Minority Report, that can completely control a person's identity and can track their movements so perfectly that civil liberties all but disappear? This is one of the few areas where Christian fundamentalists and liberals can agree; the government should not have the capacity to fully and totally control our identities, nor should it be allowed to permanently alter our bodies, particularly when that alteration is made for the purposes of increasing state power over the individual. Yes, our government already does these things by degrees and in a myriad of ways. Yes, we can come up with a half dozen justifications for it, usually starting with "for the kids" (who for some reason yet to be explained won't want the same liberties we now enjoy when they become adults). Scoff all you want, but slippery slopes do exist in this area of law, and we should respect the dangers involved when they're brought up. It's naive to assume that our government always has our best interests at heart, or that a fascist regime could never happen here. I don't think we're in any immediate danger of the government micro-chipping us as envisioned in this Bill, given the current state and use of technology (and because I don't agree with her eschatology), but it worries me to hear Americans speaking against civil liberties just because the kooks happen to be on the right side this time.
Susan, Susan, Susan...everyone knows that should the Anti-Christ ever arrive in Nashville seeking any sort of power over the Tennessee General Assembly (and by extension, all dupes across the Volunteer State), he would call upon seemingly supernatural powers and be a politically talented individual who would require all of his of minions to sign a loyalty pact!
BTW, Rep. Susan Lynn is also telling Alzheimer's patients to get lost in other ways:
http://wapp.legislature.state.tn.us/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HB2445
what if we put microchips (like the ones in pets that can be tracked) in little kids? then at 15, 16, or 18 or whatever, you can have the chip removed if you want. wouldn't that pretty much put a stop to 99% of child abductions? i was just wondering about that the other day. i was wondering what the reaction would be.
anarchival, did you really just cite a Tom Cruise movie as evidence that using poorly interpreted passages from the Book of Revelation as a basis for outlawing something that isn't even under consideration is a good idea?
Thanks, Steve. (I tried to look it up but couldn't find it.) Woods obviously was too lazy to actually look up the bill and read it himself. If he had, he would have discovered this little nugget:
"(e) In no instance shall an identification/tracking device or mark be implanted or incorporated into or on a human corpse."
Please, please, Jeff, ask Rep. Lynn about that. I'll buy you an hour's worth of beer at Brandon's.
Thank God we have our two wars won, the economy in fine shape, and all Americans have health insurance so that we can now focus on combating the anti-christ.
(Having just looked it up), I think you're right. In addition to raising the living, the Rapture will also raise the dead bodies of the saved to rejoin their spirits in Heaven.
http://www.ondoctrine.com/2mac0187.htm
That's all the more reason to ask Rep Lynn (and the other sponsor, Congressional candidate Bill Ketron) about that section of the bill. She can't very well say it's to protect civil liberties.
(And while I have your attention, don't forget yor promise to ask Mike Stewart why he voted against honoring Michael Jackson.)
"Mark of the beast" is actually "number of the beast." Long thought to be 666 and have something to do with satan, it is actually 616 and was the early christians' code for Caligula. Look it up.
I can't stop laughing ,too much time on her hands gives her demons time to play. Rep lynn turn around 10 times very fast and repeat what I wrote. There feel better your protected from the Anti Christ and Her/His/Its chip Machine .
Rep. Lynn must subscribe to the same apocalypse newsletter as her fellow public servants in Virginia.
Rep. Lynn should have taken the deal she was offered for cash when Speaker Williams was her colleague. That would have been her most productive service.
Shouldn't the legislature create a special button on their home page for nutbag right wing paranoid cranial rectal legislation?
I actually had a self-described holy roller come into my cubicle today to inform me that this bill is stupid because humans can't do anything to change prophecy. And even if they could, the mark of the beast happens after the rapture and, by then, it won't matter. All the Christians will be gone, so what do they care? I'm supposed to ask Lynn about all this. I'll put it on my list, along with all of Henry's questions.
What planet am I on? Because these crazy zealots are making me question reality. It is like we are evolving backwards.
I'm confused.
The anti-christ will be Jewish, as was Adolf Hitler, as was Karl Marx. -John Hagee
The anti-christ is walking among us in the shape of a Jewish male. -Jerry Falwell
Which is it, Christians? Am I the anti-christ, or is it a microchip? And if I'm not, what do I do with the blood vial in my refrigerator?
The best antidote against the anti-X and other afflictions of Rapture-infused brains would be honest elections. Rep. Lynn used to be for them, before she was against them.
Whatever revelation she has had recently, she might want to check the source. It is definitely unAmerican (and wacky to the nth degree.)
Maybe a good Xtian rest home would be a better place for her to be these days. Instead of a microchip, they could just put her and her ilk on long leashs. Better to protect the rest of us from their foaming-at-the-mouth version of Xtianity.
Jesus, please protect us from some of your foolish followers.
God help America.
Resistance is futile, Tennessee! Y'all will be assimilated. It's for your own good, hear? Go on now..
Oh my, how many times have I "jokingly" quipped that I would like to have a microchip implanted so I could just be scanned each time I have to fill out a form with all of my information on it, especially doctors and dentist offices.
It just gets worse. First I see that local Middle TN news airs stories that claim all Muslims are terrorists. Then I see that the TN legislature actually spends time and tax payer dollars on this kind of nonsense. What is wrong with the people in Middle Tennessee? Sure we have all heard the stereotype of southerners being backwards, but I had no idea it was this bad.
Jeff, it's my understanding that Rep. Lynn came to the press room yesterday looking for you. Informed sources say she is not happy (to put it mildly) about your story and the flood of critical emails she has received. I hope she catches up with you soon ( and devoutly hope that someone in the room captures the ensuing discussion on camera.)
Jesus Christ Died for our sins,all you haft to do is ask for his forgiveness,obey his commandments,live for him give up worldleness,
Betty, please note Revelation 14:9,10 states the following:
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.
There, you've been warned!
Check out the 2 Christian DVDs "The Moment After," and "The Moment After 2 - The Awakening," which go into detail concerning the RFID chip implantation, and the New World Order, overseen by a Global Security force, or Big Brother.
This is already in the works, introduced years ago by the secret Bilderberg Society (the wealthy billionaires who control the economy).
The idea is that eventually the world will be going to a cashless society. There will neither be any more money, or credit cards, and everyone in the world will be required to have the RFID chip implanted.
We will be unable to buy or sell without this chip. Further, the chip is also a tracking device, and will track everything you, or I do, or write, or say. Even now the Super Echelon computer tracks everything you say on the telephone or write on the computer (emails, etc.)
And even in the two DVD movies mentioned above, the Christians refused chip implantation.
Best,
Tamara
Survival group against God?? LOL. Good luck with that. Truth is, no one knows the exact time this will happen except the man upstairs, however, I firmly believe that there are people placed here by God that post the warning signs and it's up to you to take heed.
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