This month's lunacy: Delusions, the Legislature and an implanted microchip

[mr blur]

We often say that insanity reigns at the state Capitol.

But when we do, we do not literally accuse the people inside of letting their grip on reality slip. We simply mean that our ability to fathom their motives, or their ability to express them, has fallen short.


Referring to a politician as delusional is simply entertaining hyperbole. But it is something that becomes much less funny when a truly tortured soul bears her torment.

Last Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee entertained SB 235, the bill sponsored by Sen. Chip Pearson (R-Dawsonville) to prohibit the involuntary implantation of microchips in human beings.

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At the House hearing, state Rep. Ed Setzler (R-Kennesaw), who is shouldering the legislation in the House, spoke earnestly for better than a half hour on microchips as a literal invasion of privacy.

He was followed by a hefty woman who described herself as a resident of DeKalb County. “I’m also one of the people in Georgia who has a microchip,” the woman said. Slowly, she began to lead the assembled lawmakers down a path they didn’t want to take.

Microchips, the woman began, “infringe on issues that are fundamental to our very existence. Our rights to privacy, our rights to bodily integrity, the right to say no to foreign objects being put in our body.”

She spoke of the “right to work without being tortured by co-workers who are activating these microchips by using their cell phones and other electronic devices.”

She continued. “Microchips are like little beepers. Just imagine, if you will, having a beeper in your rectum or genital area, the most sensitive area of your body. And your beeper numbers displayed on billboards throughout the city. All done without your permission,” she said.

It was not funny, and no one laughed.

“Ma’am, did you say you have a microchip?” asked state Rep. Tom Weldon (R-Ringgold).

“Yes, I do. This microchip was put in my vaginal-rectum area,” she replied. Setzler, the sponsoring lawmaker, sat next to the witness – his head bowed.

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http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/04/19/delusions-the-legislature-and-an-implanted-microchip/

(On the other hand, I have a YakChip implanted in my penile-rectum area - but that's a different thing altogether)

[Silent3]

1. Of course that's a different thing...

...because not only did you give permission for the implantation, you insisted on it.

[realisticphish]

2. i want to know

what was going through the sponsoring lawmaker's head as she talked. Did he believe her? Or did he realize that he had just permanently branded himself as a friend of the batshit insane?

[onager]

3. Vaginal-rectum area?

An implant in both? Each separately? Or is she referring to an implant in the mysterious "taint" area?

This woman clearly doesn't know her ass from her...well, whatever. Never mind.

Bonus irrelevancy, since Mr. Blur is British: if those implants are made by Lucas, we don't have a thing to worry about.

[Iggo]

4. Senator "Chip" Pearson?

Nice.

[LeftishBrit]

5. Blimey

The woman probably has an actual mental illness that could be treated - but what is the matter with Chip Pearson (is that his actual name!?). It all sounds like something out of the Onion.

Isn't Georgia the state where the Republican governor dealt with a drought by asking people to pray?