Chip implants can’t be required in Missouri

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JEFFERSON CITY | Gov. Matt Blunt signed a bill Thursday prohibiting companies in Missouri from forcing workers to have microchips implanted in their bodies.

You read that right. In Missouri, it’s now illegal for businesses to require employees to have a microchip embedded under their skin.

“When you’re forced to have a chip put in you as a condition of employment, that’s taking away your civil liberties and your freedom,” said Rep. Jim Guest, a King City Republican.

Guest added the microchip language to a bill concerning overtime and disability benefits. Next year, he said, he will introduce a bill to prohibit all microchip implants in humans.

Implanted chips are commonly used to identify pets and track wild animals, but they have also been approved for use in humans.


The Star

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1. In a related note Chips cause cancer link below

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2. You can blame false prophet Hal Lindsay for this one

In The Late, Great Planet Earth or Satan is Alive and Well On Planet Earth, Lindsay noted the development of microchip technology and how it was being proposed as a way of holding biometric, medical and financial data. He compared this technology with the Mark of the Beast described in the Book of Revelations:

Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. It works great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of men; and by the signs which it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast, it deceives those who dwell on earth, bidding them make an image for the beast which was wounded by the sword and yet lived; and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast should even speak, and to cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. Also it causes all, 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, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.

Revelations 13:11-17

So according to Linday (who had a very large following in the 70s and 80s and greatly influenced Talibangelicalism), anyone who allowed himself to be implanted with a microchip was declaring himself a servant of the AntiChrist. :eyes:

I am not at all surprised that Missouri would be one of the first places to ban this technology.