GPS, RFID Scheme Preps Grade Schoolers for Control Grid Future

Truthnews | Jan. 8, 2007

By Kurt Nimmo

For some reason, the corporate media almost completely ignored this one, although the International Herald Tribune picked it up:

A tech company with ties to a school district plans to test a tracking system by putting computer chips on grade-schoolers’ backpacks, an experiment the ACLU ripped Monday as invasive and unnecessary.

The pilot program set to start next week in the Middletown school district would have about 80 children put tags containing radio frequency identification chips, or RFID chips, on their schoolbags. It would also equip two buses with global positioning systems, or GPS devices.

The school and parents will be able to track students on the bus, and the district hopes the program will improve busing efficiency, Superintendent Rosemarie Kraeger said. The devices are intended to record only when students enter and exit the bus, and the GPS would show where the bus was on it’s route.

Of course, more than an effective way to track and trace kids like beef cattle, this little program is designed to inculcate them while they are young and impressionable, so that a little later in life they will not complain all too mightily about implantable microchips, you know of the sort Mexican temporary workers will soon be getting.

Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, sent a letter to Kraeger and members of the school committee calling the plan “a solution in search of a problem” and saying the school district should already have procedures in place to track where its students are.

On Monday, he said the program raises enormous privacy and safety concerns.

“There’s absolutely no need to be tagging children,” he said. “We are not questioning the school district’s ability to use GPS to monitor school buses. But it’s a quantitative leap to monitor children themselves.”

Funny, that — “a solution in search of a problem.” In fact, according to our rulers, the problem is that we come and go, wander hither and yon, and more or less do as we please. In the future envisioned, we will all be microchipped, that is if we are interested in receiving our digital monetary credits and thus fending off starvation and exposure to the elements.

In Middletown, they are getting serious about conditioning the little ones for the future.

Consider it a public service, as a version of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World dystopia is right around the bend.