Resurrection! 2009 Microchip Bill to Get Hearing

Radio Commentary, WMVV 90.7 New Life FM, February 19, 2010
By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Good morning, Jim. 13 months ago Representative Ed Setzler introduced his second bill to prohibit mandatory microchip implants. It requires individual permission before a microchip could be implanted. His first bill died and this one was tabled last year, but, thankfully, new life has been breathed into it. Maybe, this year, Georgia will join Wisconsin, North Dakota, California and Oklahoma that have already passed a ban on forced implanting of microchips.

There are several obstacles to the passing of a bill like this in Georgia. First, some legislators think certain groups of people should be microchipped, with or without their consent. Second, there’s big money to be made by microchip developers, manufacturers and retailers. They already have their patents and are busy making and marketing microchip implants for humans. The chip would collect data and transmit it to a mechanism, called a “reader,” where the data would be translated and accessible 24 hours a day seven days a week, 365 days a year. So individuals would be under real time surveillance all the time, not just during emergencies.

The microchip is marketed as a disease detector. That means, the entire population would have to be microchipped, so infectious disease can be located, even if the sick person doesn’t go to the doctor. The microchip would report the infection, then the infected person would be picked up, wherever he is, and examined or treated or put in isolation or quarantine.

H.B. 38, simply, states that “no person shall be required to be implanted with a microchip,” and it violators would pay a stiff fine. If someone DOES require a person to be microchipped or if a person discovers a microchip that was implanted without his consent, charges could be filed against the violator and $10,000 per day could be collected for every day it’s not removed.

A prominent New York doctor said, “There’s no way in the world, having read [the laboratory research], that I would have one of those chips implanted in my skin, or in one of my family members.” If a physician feels that strongly about microchip implants, legislators should pass a law forbidding the forcible implant of microchips in our bodies.

Please call House Judiciary Subcommittee Representatives Jacobs, Ch., 404 656-0152; Bruce, 656-0314; Crawford, 656-0265; Dobbs, 656-7859; Lindsey, 656-5024; Nix, 656-0177; O’Neal, 656-5103; Powell, 656-0177; and Weldon, 656-0152; plus, Ex-officio members: Willard, 656-5125 and Lane, 656-5087.

For Georgia Insight I’m Sue Ella Deadwyler, your Capitol correspondent.