Monday, February 15, 2010
Legislature / Politics State Rep. Susan Lynn Fires Back at Jeff Woods Over 'Mark of the Beast' Comments
Posted by Jack Silverman on Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:50 AM
I do not very often comment on the work of journalists. However, I've been trying to call a journalist for a couple of days and I've been unable to locate him. I'd like to ask him why he has transferred his apparent obsession with the Mark of the Beast to me by mischaracterizing my position on legislation I am carrying that will protect the civil liberties of Tennesseans. The bill would prevent Tennesseans from being coerced or required by either the private sector or the government to have an RFID chip inserted into their body. Similar legislation passed the Georgia Senate last week, it is being voted upon in Virginia and it has already passed in several other states. This bill was brought to me by Eagle Forum after a company that manufactures RFID chips began marketing the chips to employers, insurance companies, health-care providers and the government as a way to keep track of people. Certainly, some may think RFID technology is a very good idea but others are concerned that its use always be voluntary and free of coercion; in order to protect one's health, safety and personal liberty. The RFID chips in question are about the size of a grain of rice. They carry an identification number that is detected when the part of the body inserted with the chip is scanned with a detector -- this number links to stored personal information. The only way to remove a chip from the body is through surgery. The RFID cannot act as a GPS type of device because it simply doesn't have enough power in its small battery. Major concerns are that the chips have been known to migrate in the body and to cause cancer. When I first ran this bill two years ago, Mr. Woods called me and aggressively questioned me about whether this had to do with my personal Christian beliefs, and if I thought it was the "Mark of the Beast." I told Mr. Woods that it is possible that some people may, but I am running this bill because I believe it is a civil liberties issue. No one should be forced to have a microchip, and no one should be discriminated against just because they don't have an electronic chip under their skin." In this first article Mr. Woods noted that I was dismissive of any Mark of the Beast rhetoric stating "Lynn, who discusses the Mark of the Beast as nonchalantly as she would the state's bond rating..." Now fast forward to last Wednesday when I again ran the bill in committee. The Mark of the Beast never came up, and most all committee members are in agreement with my civil liberties stand on the issue. After the committee, Mr. Woods, apparently watching from somewhere, recycled his article from two years ago -- the one where he clearly indicates that I was dismissive about the Mark of the Beast. He used it to craft a new article. He did not bother to interview me to see if I had in any way changed my mind about whether this is a "Beast" issue, but in this new article he makes it sound as if I am running this legislation strictly because of personal beliefs over the Mark of the Beast by using selective quotes from his article from two years ago where he badgered me on the phone to say anything about what the Bible says about the Mark of the Beast. Obviously an article designed with an end in mind! Mr. Woods' obsession with the "Beast" wouldn't bother me at all if he hadn't worked so hard to bring me into it. You see, his article went "viral" over the World Wide Web, and I am now nationally depicted as having some sort of odd obsession with the "Beast" -- an obsession that only Mr. Woods' seems have. I think it would be appropriate for Mr. Woods to clarify his article and issue a correction. Of course, after all this I may need to rethink my bill. After all, Mr. Woods has been so difficult to reach perhaps it would help all of us if I opted him and him alone out of the bill -- he doesn't seem to mind the idea of people being forced to receive an RFID chip in their bodies, and it may help everyone if we could make him a little easier to locate. Rep. Susan Lynn Chairman, Government Operations Committee 215 War Memorial Building Nashville, TN 37243 615-741-7462 615-596-2363
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Oh snap...Woods you just got called out by a legislator! I realize that you are probably giddy because you roused the emotions of an elected official, but if what she says is true than you have gotten pretty lazy. Quit ducking her calls and give her an honest answer, your lack of communication indicates that you are the party at fault, even if you are on vacation. Susan Lynn is playing hardball and I gotta admit, I'm impressed.
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The bangs make it difficult to discern, but I definitely think that she's wearing a custom-stamped Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie under that wig of hers.
C'mon everyone. The name Jeff Wood and the term obsessive just seem to flow together, right?
She wants you, dude. You dared touch her inner-"Beast" and your touching her went "viral" all over the World Wide Web. Now she's got designs on implanting a RFID chip in YOU.
Ya' keep taking to the crazy people...they take notice and talk back, particularly when it brings them more publicly during an election cycle.
Good luck.
Jeff Woods went off on a scheduled hiking trip and was unreachable. This'll teach him to have a life outside work.
See, this is why we need microchip implants.
If Rep. Susie Lynn can't take the heat, then she needs to get out of the kitchen (and take her tin foil hat and slink back into her rubber room)...
I'm with you Elmer Gantry. She's an elected official and needs to realize that people are going to print articles about bills you propose or otherwise support.
The truth is that I don't want the chip either; but if it really is the mark of the beast then it is up to each individual to accept or not accept it. Never does the bible tell us to fight it.
Something tells me that existing laws & regulations probably cover this already... otherwise states would have adopting branding in lieu of driver's licenses long ago.
Woods...stay out of parking garages anywhere near the state capitol.
I can't wait until later this summer when Rep. Jason Mumpower releasses another confidential statement from Rep. Susie "End Days" Lynn bitching and moaning about Woods' treatment of the Lynn TNGA House Tracking Chip legislation...
"When I first ran this bill two years ago, Mr. Woods called me and aggressively questioned me about whether this had to do with my personal Christian beliefs, and if I thought it was the "Mark of the Beast." I told Mr. Woods that it is possible that some people may, but I am running this bill because I believe it is a civil liberties issue. No one should be forced to have a microchip, and no one should be discriminated against just because they don't have an electronic chip under their skin." In this first article Mr. Woods noted that I was dismissive of any Mark of the Beast rhetoric stating "Lynn, who discusses the Mark of the Beast as nonchalantly as she would the state's bond rating..."
Now fast forward to last Wednesday when I again ran the bill in committee. The Mark of the Beast never came up, and most all committee members are in agreement with my civil liberties stand on the issue."
Read likes Rep. Susis Lynn is now ashamed to state her beliefs and would rather attempt tp defend her bill on a secular basis...
It's always a good idea to post a link to the actual bill, or at least provide the bill number so people can look it up. Jeff Woods didnt do that in his original post, neither did Rep. Lynn in her response. (Jack should have done it, too---but didn't.)
The bill also provides: "(e) In no instance shall an identification/tracking device or mark be implanted or incorporated into or on a human corpse."
The only apparent reason for that subsection is so that dead bodies can be taken to Heaven during the Rapture.It has nothing to do, of course, with civil liberties.
Rep. Susie "End Days" Lynn will be presenting her bill tomorrow:
HB2059
http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HB2059
Bill (.pdf file)
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/HB2059.pdf
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, classifies as a Class A misdemeanor, subject to a fine only, the unauthorized implantation of an electronic identification and/or tracking device or mark placed on any human being.
Placed on s/c cal Criminal Practice and Procedure of JUD for 02/17/2010 02/10/2010
