| A hospital in the U.K. has announced that it will become | | | | except under ultraviolet light. |
| the first in that country to issue bar codes for its new | | | | The next step would be to convince people to let the |
| born babies. These will replace traditional, hand written | | | | babies receive a permanent, invisible bar code. This |
| identity tags, the hospital's administrators say. | | | | would be sold to people with the idea that it would help |
| To my mind, the 2012 warning lights are flashing! Many | | | | identify a child and allow him be reunited with his |
| people have prophesied that a coming world | | | | parents as quickly as possibly, should he ever be lost. |
| dictatorship will arrive very soon, most likely before the | | | | Of course, a permanent bar code would stay with |
| end of the year 2012, and that it will use modern | | | | people throughout their lives. It would inevitably come to |
| technology to enslave us. | | | | be used for such things as identifying people when |
| Bar codes would be one way to permanently tag | | | | they applied for a driver's license, bought an airplane |
| people. If I were one of the would-be controllers, I | | | | ticket, etc. It could either substitute for, or supplement, |
| would start by pushing something innocuous sounding | | | | those implanted microchips that some people say will |
| such as using them on babies' hospital tags. Then I | | | | soon be pushed on us. |
| would suggest that the bar code be applied directly to | | | | Bar codes on babies! Yes, the 2012 warning lights are |
| the baby's skin, perhaps on a cheek or on the back of | | | | flashing like crazy. Are you prepared for the brave |
| hand, using a temporary ink that would be in invisible | | | | new world that is rushing headlong toward us now? |