Sunday, November 25, 2012
Texas GOP preparing kids for the future
The future that Big Brother could only dream about. Seems the little boogers in John Jay High School Science and Engineering Academy in San Antonio are given identity badges with RFID chips in them to track them and keep them in their proper place. One student objected, on religious grounds, no less, and was quickly put in her place.
A Texas teenager’s attorney told RT on Friday that her refusal to wear an ID badges with a GPS tag has led to her being ostracized from all school activities.A school named for one of the Founding Fathers of this country pioneering a means of social control in violation of the Constitution, in days past. Texas has truly and completely killed irony.
“She’s not being treated equally,” said John Whitehead, who is representing Andrea Hernandez in an upcoming trial next week. “If she doesn’t have the chip, she can’t access the library, cafeteria, she was told she couldn’t vote for the homecoming king and queen.”
Hernandez, a sophomore at John Jay High School Science and Engineering Academy in San Antonio, objected to wearing the badges, which are equipped with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips, on religious grounds, saying they bore “the mark of the beast,” a reference to a Christian prophecy in the Book of Revelations. Whitehead said she was also barred from distributing a pamphlet explaining her rationale.
RT and The Next Web reported that Hernandez was granted a restraining order allowing her to return to school pending the results of her trial, which begins Nov. 28. The badges are part of a $500,000 program whereby John Jay hopes to raise funds by demonstrating consistently high attendance via tracking student movement.
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