{"id":38847,"date":"2012-10-11T00:11:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T07:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=38847"},"modified":"2014-12-30T12:03:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T19:03:37","slug":"the-peoples-democratic-national-security-state-of-heaven-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/10\/the-peoples-democratic-national-security-state-of-heaven-24.html","title":{"rendered":"The People’s Democratic National Security State of Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

We *will* create a secular paradise of safety if we have to turn every last citizen into cattle to do it!<\/a><\/p>\n

A school district in Texas came under fire earlier this year when it announced that it would require students to wear microchip-embedded ID cards at all times. Now, students who refuse to be monitored say they are feeling the repercussions.<\/p>\n

Since October 1, students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, have been asked to attend class with photo ID cards equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips to track every pupil\u2019s location. Educators insist that the endeavor is being rolled out in Texas to stem the rampant truancy devastating the school\u2019s funding. If the program is judged successful, the RFID chips could soon come to 112 schools in all and affect nearly 100,000 students.<\/p>\n

Students who refuse to walk the school halls with the card in their pocket or around their neck claim they are being tormented by instructors, and are barred from participating in certain school functions. Some also said they were turned away from common areas like cafeterias and libraries.<\/p>\n

Andrea Hernandez, a sophomore at John Jay, said educators have ignored her pleas to respect her privacy and told her she cannot participate in school elections if she refuses to comply with the tracking program.<\/p>\n

Hernandez said in an interview with Salon that subjecting herself to constant monitoring through an RFID chip is like being branded with the \u201cmark of the beast\u201d \u2013 a reference to the Bible\u2019s apocalyptic Book of Revelations. When she reached out to WND with the school\u2019s response, though, she said that she was threatened with not being allowed to vote for her school\u2019s homecoming king and queen for disobeying the student ID rule.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know, being as how the purpose of the \u201cmark\u201d in the Book of Revelation was to cause \u201call, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark\u201d (Rev 13: 16-17) this *does* look uncannily like the biblical author might have something on the ball when it comes to perceiving Caesar\u2019s all-consuming desire to control every single aspect of our existence or mete out punishments to those who resist. I hope the students and their families tell this school district to go to hell.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We *will* create a secular paradise of safety if we have to turn every last citizen into cattle to do it! A school district in Texas came under fire earlier this year when it announced that it would require students to wear microchip-embedded ID cards at all times. Now, students who refuse to be monitored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,188],"class_list":["post-38847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-growing-police-state","tag-the-peoples-democratic-national-security-state-of-heaven"],"yoast_head":"\nThe People's Democratic National Security State of Heaven<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We *will* create a secular paradise of safety if we have to turn every last citizen into cattle to do it! 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