Local cartoonist takes on paranoia in the wild world of recycling.
Land of This Guy: Recycled Paranoia
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Loonies gone loon.
It’s not that they could spy. It’s that they are so hackable that Mythbusters was nearly sued into oblivion by Visa, Mastercard, Experion, Citibank, CapitalOne, and Bank of America for even *thinking* about doing an episode about them.
But, even assuming that they can’t be hacked to cause your recycle bin to eat you (it happens, just ask Mickey. I mean, sure, there were Autons involved but it was some sort of plastic bin, wasn’t it?) there’s still the chance that those things could somehow become self-aware, and begin self-reproduction. At that point, it’s only a short hop to believing that they could somehow enter your bloodstream.
Maybe you’re out doing yard work and get a scratch. Maybe an airborne nano-RFID smells your blood. Next thing you know, you’re making phone calls in the middle of the night that you don’t even remember making and your neighbors are slowly disappearing.
It could all happen. Ron Paul wrote about this in his newsletters in between the coded messages about blacks and the Fed.
I’ve read some pretty interesting archived emails and usenet posts from before they got their hands on it (google, that is) and started removing a lot of the good stuff. Luckily, they aren’t the only ones that know how to run a good tape backup of the internet every few minutes.
I guess you could say that these things are just harmless, but I’m among those who are pretty certain that nothing is harmless. Nothing. The Umbrella Man? Sure, he was harmless. It was those that he signaled to start shooting that killed JFK. And I bet Gary Powers would sign off on that, as he too was a victim of the NWO that began with Oswald going to Russia.
They’ve been playing us from both sides, and this new Green Initiative and these RFID recycle bins are just the start. Mark my word. They want to put these chips in us, one way or another, and the Affordable Care Act will just make it easier for them.
Be strong. Go in peace. And watch your back.
It IS a Right-Left conspiracy, just not the way you think. The Right scares you off the grid with threats of technological privacy intrusion, then the Left is free to weaken and starve you with vegetarian diets, holistic health care and low-wages, before finally destroying you with all-natural, biodegradable Eco-weapons that leave no evidence of any crime, i.e. bears, coyotes, staph infections.
Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean THEY are not out to get you!