InforWars.com
August 19, 2001
http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/nwonewsfacescanstothumbs19aug01.shtml

[Editor's Note: Folks, if you don't resist this, it will devour you. If you have kids in a school that insists on thumbprint scans on order to receive lunch, remove your kids from that school and home school them if necessary. During colonial days in America, King Geroge passed The Stamp Act in a bid to collect taxes for everything from American made goods to taking a ride on a barge or  ferry to go acoss a canal or river. American colonists took action immediately. Every tax collector for the King was identifed and systematically tarred and feathered or had the contents of his home dumped on his front lawn. It took just one day for the entire collection system that the King had set up to collapse entirely. No one was willing to be a tax collector any longer. Resist folks, apply your brains and ingenuity and resist.]
 

              Austin, TX - From fans at the Superbowl having their faces scanned to kids thumscanning to purchase lunches in
              the school cafeteria, Americans are being conditioned to give up their privacy and independence in exchange for the
              "safety" of biometrics technologies. Police departments across the country are debating the implimentation of invasive
               and unconstitutional Big Brother biometrics "for our safety and convenience," or, in the case of Ybor, Florida they
               have already instated and misused faces scanning cameras to victimize an innocent man.
 
               Across the US and the world, from Odessa, Texas to Beijing, China
               populations are being forced to accept the incredibly invasive technology
               of biometrics. Right out of the gates biometrics is being used only in Big
               Brother type surveillence monitoring and tracking efforts. Just imagine
               elementary school children in Pennsylvania who attend the Lakeside
               school district classes being forced to digitally fingerprint to obtain their
               lunches. We're talking about everybody - all the children - no cash
               allowed!
 
               Two things are happening here: The children are being trained to accept a
               cashless society where all of their transactions are recorded and, more
               importantly, they are being put into Federal and State databases. In the
               past, only criminals were fingerprinted.
 
               You see, we're all being treated as if we're guilty until proven innocent. In
               fact, Detective Todd who runs the biometric cameras in Tampa, Florida
               stated to the press, "I don't see the big problem with it if you don't have
               anything to hide." Yes, this was the mantra of Nazi Germany: "You are
               free to go - once we see your papers." Imagine what Hitler would have
               done with this Orwellian tool which is already being used in England to
               deny people to stores and sports arenas.
 
               But it gets worse: Kroger and HEB foodstores in Texas are tearing out
               the "old-fashioned" checkout counters and replacing them with self-serve
               scanning systems. Wells Fargo has implemented the face-scanning
               cameras at its banking centers in Dallas.
 
               But where are they getting the databases to match the faces and
               fingerprints with names and Social Security numbers? That's right: they
               got them from States drivers license facilities. In the past eight years,
               State DMV's in 38 States have been collecting digital photos, thumbprints
               and signatures. And now, Washington DC's Mayor has announced that
               all the school children will be face scanned, thumbprinted and then loaded
               into the drivers license database.
 
               In one fell swoop they have put the cashless society surveillance grid in
               place, and they're training the children that cash will no longer get them a
               hamburger.
 
               Americans Against Biometrics President Alex Jones saw the threat four
               years ago with the drivers' license databases. He staged a 100+ person
               protest at the State Police offices in Austin, Texas against the biometric
               requirement for a driver's license. Jones was arrested after demanding
               that his driver's license be renewed without submitting to a digital photo
               and thumbprint. He had brought eight forms of ID with him, but that was
               not enough. I would have been enough for the KGB, but not for the
               Texas Department of Public Safety. The frightening video of the arrest
               can be viewed online at www.infowars.com/biometrics.html< /A>.
 
               Jones became very concerned four years ago when he began to see
               defense contractors like Lockheed-Martin running television ads equating
               thumb scanning to buy and sell with America's pride in the space shuttle.
               Biometric propaganda is everywhere in commercials and on TV: IBM
               and American Express show people being scanned by lasers to get their
               groceries; the Sci-FI channel goes out to break and comes back into the
               show with someone biometrically thumb scanning.
 
               There are hundreds of other examples. We are all being conditioned to
               accept a highly centralized and dictatorial system. Is it any wonder that
               Red China is hastily buying up biometric technology?
 
               Remember: right out of the gates, from the very start of this it has been
               mandatory to biometrically scan your body parts to get your driver's
               license ¬ in turn to get a job and to have a bank account. Now every
               form of retail business and service company is deploying these systems
               and in hundreds of schools children are thumbscanning to get their food.
               We're not headed towards "1984," we're already in it.
 
               Radio Talk Show Host Alex Jones is the President of Americans Against
               Biometrics and the foremost expert on the dangers of police state
               biometric technology. The time to act is now: get this information out to
               the public so they know what they're up against.

               To schedule and interview with Alex Jones, please contact Violet Nichols
               at 512-443-5856.