At the risk of making a statement that may be a painful reminder to those who lost loved ones at the WTC (and perhaps the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania, but in many tragic situations as well)...

...an implanted (RFID) chip will not always be a means of determining identity of a body in some cases, nor even necessarily useful for determining if a body was or was not present in some devastating explosions, fires, or air crash sites from which no recovery is possible.

And in the other 99% of the situations when I might be klled or rendered unconscious without anyone around who knows me, I think that my passport in my pocket will suffice for me.

Best wishes,

Rex

Ira, I cannot imagine you actually putting the words "Republican" and "Al Qaida" (please learn how to spell those terrorist names properly) in the same sentence...

Rex, thanks for saying it nicely. I wanted to express similar thoughts regarding the WTT but was afraid to do so badly and run the risk of offending someone.

I agree completely.

Thanks Rex, for phrasing it so nicely.

This will save me from having to rant about something non-travel related, and you all from having to read it. :)

Jules

Hi Intrepid1

>Ira, I cannot imagine you actually putting the words "Republican" and "Al Qaida" (please learn how to spell those terrorist names properly) in the same sentence...<

Even after seeing it? :)

It's not "Republican"?

((I))

Rex is "hooked on phonix"...and dare I say that one might throw a u in Quaida, but it still looks wrong.

Besides, "Qaida" is closer to how GWB pronounces it anyway.

Jules,

who's waiting for a chance for my retina to be scanned and any other technology that will help "Them" follow my every move. ;)

I don't know what the original poster really meant, but will take him at the surface meaning -- dog tags as the military wears (not implant chips).

There is no point to this as it is no different than a passport. In fact, that's pretty much what it is, only a piece of metal hung around one's neck rather than a paper booklet. So how on earth can requiring US citizens to wear a piece of metal around their neck for travel be anything revolutionary in comparison to requiring them to carry their passport for international travel, which they are?

This whole propsition seems pointless to me.

i can just see a diner across the room at tour d'argent wearing her dog tags...

as for chip implants: are you proponents mad?

Your new car has chips that records how you drive!!

And "they" are probably watching everything we say on this forum!

Not necessarily at all times, sue4.

Have you looked up your screen name at www.google.com?