October 06, 2005

Former HHS head Tommy Thompson on board of Verichip Corp.

Last year, I took a long look at the flu vaccine shortage and the incompetence I found was quite shocking. Even after all the other incompetence displayed by the Bush administration in the past year, I still find it hard to believe.

Another story I've covered here concerns a company called VeriChip, which produces a grain-of-rice-sized implantable RFID chip. Their slogan is "Get Chipped[TM]", and they even have a ChipMobile that drives from town to town encouraging Citizens to undertake the quick, painless procedure.

As it turns out, back in July, the former head of Health and Human Services Department, Tommy G. Thompson, joined their board:

VeriChip is a subsidiary of Applied Digital and the only company to provide both implanted and external RFID security solutions for people, their assets, and their environments. From the world's first and only FDA-cleared, human-implantable RFID microchip to the only patented active RFID tag with skin-sensing capabilities, VeriChip leads the way in next-generation RFID technologies. Today, over 3,000 installations worldwide in healthcare, security, industrial, and government markets benefit from both the protection and efficiencies provided by VeriChip systems. For more information on VeriChip, please visit www.verichipcorp.com.

Posted to Privacy at October 6, 2005 08:09 AM

Comments

Tommy Thompson is every Christians nightmare!
Read the Good Book and you will see that he is laying the foundation for the demise of life as we know it. Whatever happened to the politician that represented the common man? The Democracy we live in now isn't the Democracy our Fore Fathers envisioned for us. A Representative for the People is a thing of the past, the new defenition is a Representative for the company who yields the biggest DOLLAR. What happened to National Pride?

Posted by: mark mccafferty at November 16, 2006 12:06 PM