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From: johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Clinton wants National ID card, aka USSR-style "Internal Passport"
Date: 21 Apr 1993 20:26:39 GMT
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In article <66767@mimsy.umd.edu>, tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!)) writes:
|> johnston@cyberia.win.net (Robert Johnston) writes:
|> >>
|> >>How 'bout we embed the `card` in the forhead of everyones skull ? 
|> >>Can't lose it without being already dead (ergo, no need for treatment).
|> >>
|> >Close, at birth we implant a smart chip just behind the ear under the skin but
|> >above the skull.  We incase it in a hypo-allergenic high carbon content
|> >glass.  This chip would be reprogrammed as we age with the pertinent
|> >medical, correctional, taxational data.  Behave yourself or we'll 
|> >input it into your permenant record.
|> 
|>      You forgot the part about encasing it in a small shaped charge so that
|> if anyone tries to tamper with it, it explodes and kills you.
|> 
|>      Oh, and the shaped charge can be set off by remote control...but only
|> if you get out of line. Properly patriotic citizens have nothing to fear.

At Algor's insistance, the shaped charge will automatically detonate after
thirty years, a la "Logan's Run," in order to maintain population control.

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