{"id":32837,"date":"2016-12-21T16:47:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T00:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/presidential-candidate-suggests-microchips-for-syrian-refugees"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:57:14","slug":"presidential-candidate-suggests-microchips-for-syrian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/presidential-candidate-suggests-microchips-for-syrian-refugees","title":{"rendered":"Presidential candidate suggests microchips for Syrian refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/presidential-candidate-suggests-microchips-for-syrian-refugees.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In light of the recent attacks in Europe, the search for terrorists, and the ongoing refugee\/immigration issues, I still support considering this idea of implants. In fact, so long as the Middle East is in strife, and large amounts of refugees are created, and fundamental religiosity thrives, I\u2019m certain some type of tracking technology implementation in the developed world is inevitable over the next 2\u201315 years for refugees and some immigrants. Such technology broadly remains the humanitarian thing to do (read the article!), while still protecting the public and national interests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/presidential-candidate-suggests-microchips-for-syrian-refugees\/\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/presidential-candidate-suggests-mi\u2026-refugees\/<\/a> #transhumanism #Germany #terrorism #immigration<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The question of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/house-approves-bill-to-pause-syrian-refugee-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">allowing Syrian refugees in to the United States<\/a> has created a political firestorm in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris and one Presidential candidate proposes a novel, high-tech solution, but it\u2019s also likely to make plenty of Americans uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Transhumanist Party candidate Zoltan Istvan suggests that small microchips could be implanted under the skin of Syrian refugees as part of the process of admitting them into the United States or other countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe procedure takes a minute and is harmless,\u201d Istvan, who recently had a microchip implanted in his own hand to kick off his campaign bus tour, told CNET in an email. \u201cThe chip is the size of a grain of rice and could go in the hand and be useful for more than just tracking purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier interview with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browardpalmbeach.com\/news\/presidential-candidate-suggests-we-microchip-syrian-refugees-7402602\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Broward-Palm Beach New Times<\/a><em>, <\/em>Istvan said chipping refugees could be one way to track them and determine if any might be plotting acts of violence and also monitor who is \u201ccontributing to the system \u2014 whether they are working, paying taxes or causing strife.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/presidential-candidate-suggests-microchips-for-syrian-refugees\">Continue reading \u201cPresidential candidate suggests microchips for Syrian refugees\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the recent attacks in Europe, the search for terrorists, and the ongoing refugee\/immigration issues, I still support considering this idea of implants. In fact, so long as the Middle East is in strife, and large amounts of refugees are created, and fundamental religiosity thrives, I\u2019m certain some type of tracking technology implementation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1499,5,2414,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-geopolitics","category-terrorism","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59420,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32837\/revisions\/59420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}