Judge rules US student should wear “chip” ID
A federal judge has dismissed a Texas girl’s objection to locator chips in student ID badges at a public high school in a case that raises concerns about the erosion of privacy and civil liberties.
Andrea Hernandez, 15, and her father told school officials they oppose the use of locator chips on religious grounds. Officials at San Antonio’s Northside school district said they were willing to give her a chipless badge, but warned the straight-A student she would be expelled from her prestigious selective-enrollment school if she did not wear it.
She refused, saying the new badges are the “mark of the beast” and that to be made to wear one equates to forcing her to “fall in line” and endorse the program. Judge Orlando Garcia denied her request for an injunction preventing the district from sending her back to the neighborhood school in ruling Jan. 8.
Schools are awarded funds based upon attendance and the chips allow administrators to count students as present even if they don’t make it to their homeroom because they’re chatting in the hallway with a friend. Since the ID badges are also used to purchase food in the cafeteria, check books out of the library and participate in after school programs, Andrea Hernandez was denied access to many school activities.
Hernandez’s lawyers have vowed to appeal, arguing that requiring her to wear the badge equates to unconstitutional “forced speech” and that it isn’t a judge’s place to second guess someone’s religious views.
“The issue in the case is whether or not people who disagree with these programs on religious or constitutional grounds can opt out,” said John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute civil liberties group helping Hernandez pursue the case.
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interesting..its the barcode the fundamentalists are afraid of..the chip follows that down the track..the key here is that you dont get a choice..its forced on you..you cant be unique or non-conformists in their brave new world..
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“you cant be unique or non-conformists in their brave new world..”
No, but every women can use a microwave or a hammer
Indeed.
Truthfully, the parents forget their own power here. Keep your kids home from school. If they are linking this crap to federal funding, then dammit, “Stop This” or OUR kids WILL NOT attend school, and you will lose your precious Federal Funding anyway.
WE, the parents, will stand outside OUR school buildings protesting, YOU will receive NO MONIES, . Stop the Chips – or lose your job LOSER..!
(They don’t need chips anyway to ‘take attendance’, that’s what teachers and school secretaries do….or is that what it’s really about? Eliminating jobs?)
My suggestions:
Fire the Superintendent immediately- pay the rest of his/her damn contract, you will anyway, per a lawsuit . Dismiss the school board. Stop letting your ‘neighbors’, who are just the guy down the street who happens to work as superintendent of schools for a living…help these Zionist assholes take over our world.
After the whole Sandy Hooks Episode, Who in the Hell even wants their kids in these gulags anymore. Schools have become nothing but holding centers while their parents work their asses off all day so the criminal cabal can tax them and rob them blind. Our ‘working class’ children have not been educated on nothing in years but agendas and test taking!
THIS is DEMOCRACY in action. Sux doesn’t it?
they hook everything up to going to school.and getting funding etc..making it almost impossible to not do it..you cant go to school if your not jabbed..if you dont send them to school you lose your kids
most of the ducks are lined up..
http://www.v2load.com/videos/o0ZIJdN05QE/
Joe Biden ” You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, I am a Zionist”