One in four Germans wants microchip under skin: poll

By Agence France-Presse
Monday, March 1st, 2010 -- 10:58 am
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microchipimplant One in four Germans wants microchip under skin: pollHANOVER, Germany -- It sounds like something from a sci-fi film, but one in four Germans would be happy to have a microchip implanted in their body if they derived concrete benefits from it, a poll Monday showed.

The survey, by German IT industry lobby group BITKOM, was intended to show how the division between real life and the virtual world is increasingly coming down, one of the main themes of the CeBIT trade fair that kicks off Tuesday.

In all, 23 percent of around 1,000 respondents in the survey said they would be prepared to have a chip inserted under their skin "for certain benefits."

Around one in six (16 percent) said they would wear an implant to allow emergency services to rescue them more quickly in the event of a fire or accident.

And five percent of people said they would be prepared to have an implant to make their shopping go more smoothly.

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But 72 percent said they would not "under any circumstances" allow electronics in their body.

The results appeared to surprise even the high-tech sector.

"This is of course an extreme example of how far people can imagine networks going," said BITKOM chief August-Wilhelm Scheer.

The CeBIT, the world's biggest high-tech fair, throws its doors open to the public on Tuesday, with Spain, the current EU president, this year's guest of honour.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero were due to speak later Monday in an official opening ceremony before touring the exhibition early Tuesday.

A total of 4,157 firms from 68 countries are to unveil their latest gadgets, a decline of three percent on last year as many high-tech firms stay away amid strong competition from other events.

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  • tomhims5441
    and so it begins...
  • LRR
    I am the walrus....I am the eggman....I am the walrus, kook kook achoo!

    Makes about as much sense as the fools who post on this blog about something they can't do anything about. Just gives more personal information to the government. Instead of voicing your opinion on blogs, people should form "underground" movements in secrecy instead of voicing their thoughts outloud on the internet for government agencies to pick up on & databank & profile you & collect information about you & use it against you. Where are the caves? Go underground. Quit rapping outloud! Find people of like minds & join together and revolt against this NEW WORLD ORDER AND CHIPPING the human race! You need scientists, doctors, health professionals, legal professionals, survival specialists, etc. to join the group & be quiet. Don't let others know what you are thinking, because that will be your downfall.

    Good luck in the new world that is upon us.

    LET IT BE!
  • LRR
    When 99 Red Luft Balloons Go By. (Nina)

    Instant Karma's going to get to you (john lennon)

    Good bye, everybody, my time has come. Gonna leave you all behind & face the truth. (Freddie Mercury- Queen)

    I'm so high, so high, turn around & face the sky (Stevie Wonder)

    So I quit the police department & got myself a steady job....shecould steal, but she could not rob (Beatles)

    We are the world, we are the children (Michael Jackson)

    So, good-bye yellow brick road....can't keep me in my penthouse, going back to my plow (Elton John)

    Lady Madonna, children at your feet. Who brings the money, when you pay the rent? Would you say that money is heaven sent? (Beatles)
  • LRR
    Are the German people Nuts?
  • ShootyMcBang
    Why is it that we should feud amongst ourselves giving the appearance of never having graduated puberty? We all put our pants on one leg at a time and as a race of humans, we are brilliant. State encroachment on one is state encroachment on all. Voluntary acceptance by those that so choose is up to those people. Forcing the chip is a declaration of war on the person that does not want it. To convenience the state or the corporations is not now, nor will it ever be my life's mission.
  • 1PIISED OFF AMERICAN
    WHEN THEY TRY TO CHIP ME OR MY FAMILY WE WILL ANSWER IN A HAIL OF STEEL AND LEAD.
  • DGIz
    Check out SOMARK website
  • TYBO2020
    GTFOH
  • Attila D.
    Did they survey the visitors of Cebit? Or generally the public?
  • Michele
    No to any chips!!!!! All microchips have embedded coding of several key numbers for identity! Including the ending of the bars, the code the middle, and the beginning of it! These 3 areas include the numbers identity to be 3 sixes! 666 is the mark of the beast the number of man and satan/lucifer/apollyon/zeus/osiris/isis (anti-Christ) will use it to force everyone alive to worship him! you will either conform or die.

    I choose death! I will never be chipped by anyhting! Especially not by a government with a proven evil and greedy track record to destroy the people in every nation that will not agree to bow down or become a slave!!!!
  • WayTruthLight
    I totally agree with you! Jesus is the Way the truth and the light, and Life for that matter!
    Say no to their chips!

    Do not conform to the likeness of this world and I will give you a croown of Life! Jesus
  • ADIZZY999
    No to chips, I will settle for a small bag and a nice piece of cod. I would fight them tooth and nail. Freedom and liberty. They will end up putting them in our brains so its more difficult to remove!!!!!
  • are you guys craze are what
  • ADIZZY999
    lol Crazy or what. That stupid Bible talks about the beast, earthquakes floods wars, I cant see anything going on , can you????
  • Silas
    Revelation 13:16-18:

    He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

    This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666
  • ADIZZY999
  • killuminati
    NOBODY IS WAITING FOR YOUR STUPID CHIP BIG BROTHER NOBODY
    GO CHIP YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR EVIL LOBBY!
  • killuminati
    this is mass proppoganda!
    move with your new world order illuminati
    mark of the beast microchip
    they are gonna have to kill me before the implant me with this piece of shit!
  • Guest
    How can Germans be such dupes?
    Oh, right. Sorry.
  • "Germans"? 72% are AGAINST this stuff! Your dumb generalisation is totally baseless. And the underlying assumption that Americans would fare better in that poll, too. Let's wait for results from the US before drawing comparisons.
  • bvconway
    Keep in mind we now have crowd-control and other drones that can zero in on GPS coordinates.
    Imagine those drones zero-ing in on YOUR coordinates.

    A word to the general public: don't put microchips in your body, or on your pet. Unless of course you want to become collateral damage to an unfortunate "computer error".
  • carbonpaper
    The chips only have a short range -- two metres at most. You should worry about the GPS in your phone, though. IMO mobile phones are the real "chips," and everyone carries them voluntarily already!

    It doesn't bear thinking about.
  • Bob
    Wow...they have managed to really brain wash those Germans.
    The medical/cancer industry is going to love this as the chips cause tumors, not to mention a slew of privacy, social, and mental issues:
    http://www.antichips.com/press-releases/microch...
  • hawkny1
    We put a chip in my dog's neck 8 years ago...it hasn't helped.

    She won't run away...
  • ADIZZY999
  • ADIZZY999
    Micro chips are already here. They say they are the size of a grain of rice. I would say they look like the size of 3 grains of rice. It will do away with the need for money. Be a naughty girl or boy and the government will deactivate it. You will be penniless and not able to buy or sell anything as it says in Revelations 13/16-17 and I am not religious.
  • ADIZZY999
    Laugh if you want, but I go with the sensible commentators. That chip is the mark of the beast. Revelations 13/16-17 You will not be able to buy or sell without it. Revelations 14/9-11 . Amazing how prevalent 9/11 is.!!!
  • The willful misinterpretation of the Book of Revelations is behind much of current conservative Christian right-wing fundamentalist speculation, not only about this country but the Middle East and the world as well. Too, often this speculation is used to incorrectly determine who is on God’s side; the countries, its leaders and citizens, who are feared to be in league with the end time desires of Satan and as a result, the enemy of the ‘Christian Nation of the United States of America’.
    .
    Some are being tempted to aid or bring about a world situation, that they believe, will lead to the rapture by executing some grand design to force the hand of God to the will of those who would like to steal His plans to justify their own limited vision and corrupt goals.
    .
    Accepting incorrect speculation about the ‘end times’ unfortunately causes some highly impressionable Christians to willingly yield, whether through ignorance or fear of losing worldly comforts, whatever spiritual virtues or values they’ve gained from the Gospels to the whims of Power, its control, greed, discrimination and destruction.
    .
    This misinformation (which I believe the educated leaders absolutely know to be untrue) is used to violate what Christ explained to us was the second most important commandment, ‘to love one another’. Fear, ignorance and paranoia are, and have always been, the ultimate tools of evil and can and often do exist on all sides of any conflict. Evil does exist but it is an action not a person or group of people.
  • justadumbfireman
    Yeah. Quoting a 2,000-year old book written by Bronze Age people is common sense. And you think the GERMANS are insane?
  • ADIZZY999
    Well I cant remember saying the Germans are insane. I am not saying Revelations is correct, but it is interesting to compare passages that relate to the present days happening. BTW the only Germans that should be put down are the paedophile followers. And sadly we have them in all our countrys.
  • Germans....sigh*...they obviously didn't learn from their mistake!
  • Huh? Did WE start any wars in the last 65 years? You're sitting in a glass house, man.
  • justadumbfireman
    Obviously the USA didn't learn from their mistake either,
  • "would be prepared to have" != "want". Nice try at journalism.
  • One in four Germans still wear jack-boots and brown shirts. So what? Should this surprise anyone that one in four silly Germans want a dang microchip implanted? There's something not quite right with one in four Germans anyway.
  • So much for US folks who have all their knowledge about Germany not from visiting the country, but from watching all episodes of "Hogan's Heros". Idiots!
  • Ummm Gray? Ease up Homer. You take yourself way too serious. As for "idiots?" Blow it out your ass. Life's too short to get all manner of histrionic about 'one in four Germans and microchip implants'. Yup. You're gonna give yourself a stroke.
  • Hahaha! You're funny, troll.
  • USA is EVIL
    Why is this site censoring comments that allude to its headlines about Russia backing sanctions against Iran? Russia is resisting US efforts to back Iran into a corner and to demonize them to get the stupid American people to support war with them. Showing a few links to Israeli news sources to prove this seems to have greatly upset the gatekeepers here. Maybe they support war against Iran? That must be it.
  • ADIZZY999
    I have had 3 comments removed, is paranoia the name of the game!!!
  • charlesrinko
    Wow, thats downright scary stuff dude.

    Jess
    www.total-anonymity.cz.tc
  • usernamegoeshere
    In other news, one in four Germans are absolute retards.
  • Firstly, look at the way the questions were framed. Nothing was said about safeguards to the use of the chips, for instance cryptographic encoding. Many positive responses certainly are based on the assumption that those will be implementented. Germans in general are actually MORE concerned about privacy and misuse of personal informtions than Americans, and, unlike the US, we do have laws regulating this and discussions in paarliament about the issues! So, "Retards" is too strong, 'overtrustful in the good intentions of the government' and 'not wary enough of the risks in new technology" is more to the point.

    And then, "retards" should only be used to describe people who voted for George W. Bush for president!
    :P
  • moxaman
    I always knew the Germans were nazis at heart.
  • And I now know you're an idiot.
  • Paul
    What's the big surprise? People are people everywhere. Germany, has a long history of reliance on bureaucratic institutions. They pride themselves on that fact.
  • Rochelle the Rabbit
    No wonder Hitler found these people such a push over!
  • Interesting opinio, coming from a citizen of a nation where an increasing number of people become stark raving mad Teabaggers, waiting for a leader to show them the way into power!

    Good idea to rememeber the way Hitler came into power, though. Only the implied assumption "it can't happen here" is overly optimistic, imho.
  • carbonpaper
    IMHO "it can't happen here" is very dangerous.
  • Sanger
    Wow, you would think they would learn from history being that they are ground zero for tyranny. Like lambs to the slaughter.
  • Wow, you would think people would refrain from writing nonsense about other folks they obviously don't know anything about. Like ignorance is bliss.
  • Guest
    Spaniards, like other Europeans, have to carry an identity card. I'm an American, and my Spanish friends couldn't understand my negative attitude toward this policy. They said it made them feel "safer." At least some of them would probably like this new implant because it would be "more convenient" (no more forgetting your identity papers at home, etc.) Go figure.
  • I understand your concerns, but how how do you manage to get along in the US without a driver's license? You from New York? But even then, how about credit cards? You trust the banks more than the government?

    Face it, in our modern societies, it's increasingly difficult to get along without using any kind of ID.
  • Guest
    Spaniards, like other Europeans, must carry an identity card. My Spanish friends and acquaintances could not understand why Americans would object to it. Several of them said that it made them feel "safer." Go figure.
  • carbonpaper
    Well, when I lived in Europe I was supposed to carry an identity card, but I never did. Sticking it to the Man was never so easy!
  • Well, if you don't carry one, you will simply have to pay a fine if you can't show it when asked to, for instance in the case of a car accident. The cops will simply check their computer for your data. Just like in the US. And if the informations don't match, you will be taken to the police station.


    However, the US system still gives criminals much more leeway. That's a downside of this more liberal approach that shouldn't be forgotten.
  • carbonpaper
    Obviously I carried my driver's license when I was driving. I kept it in the glovebox. Otherwise, I have never been asked for ID in Europe, and I lived there for years and years. I didn't live a life of crime though so that may have had something to do with it.

    Many European countries have a nod-and-a-wink attitude to laws.
  • Well, indeed, police asking for an id, without a direct reason, is very rare. But I wouldn't say "Many European countries have a nod-and-a-wink attitude to laws". It depends on the laws, of course. For instance, drunk driving is a total NoNo everywhere, and a driving style that's typical for DUI is one of the main reasons for spontaneous controls by the police.
  • carbonpaper
    Of course. I never did that though, that would be irresponsible. I meant the carry-id-at-all-times laws.
  • Dan D
    Bar codes on our foreheads will be next. People like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin will agree to this.
  • Sid
    They will find a way to force people using this chip, another big catastrophe like 9/11 perhaps?
    When people are confused and scared, they will just accept anything label as safe/security.
  • dawnerodela
    I believe as the economy worsen, they will enforce it. What better way to make people get the micro-chip in order to control the masses. For me, there would be no way I would accept it. Knowing how history repeats itself, they will have to use military force on those who are wise to there schemes.
  • netta
    you are right on dawn...it will be another holocaust all over with Christians being the Jew this time and those who do not go with the flow will be hunted like animals and put to death.
  • aly
    The rapture is what will happen, can you imagine when millions of people disappear how chaotic and in desperate need everyone who is left behind will be. That will be when the Antichrist will rise to power and force everyone to have his mark. If they don't take it they will not be able to buy or sell. Revelation 13:16-17
  • darc
    aly,
    if you really believe that a "rapture" is going to "save you" from what's coming I would suggest that you stop listening to the teachers that give you nothing but "ear-tickling" messages about a fairy tale "catching away", supposedly escaping the warnings Jesus gave us in Matthew 24, because if you don't you're going to be very, very disappointed when it doesn't happen. Re-read Mt 24 and tell me where Jesus says "and it is here that I'll come for you, before you're handed over to be persecuted" or before any of the rest of these really bad things happen." Be prepared to be given the chance to deny Christ and take the Mark and worship the antichrist. It's coming and there'll be no rapture to save anyone.
  • netta
    I feel very confident darc that you will be the one with your mouth gaped open when you wake to find millions of people have vanished...Jesus have mercy on you and those like you. There WILL be a rapture of the true church and there will be a satanic rise to power that will try and force all those remaining to get his mark or they will not be able to buy or sell anything, or receive medical treatment.
  • Sid
    Or enforce chip in order to access government hospital and services.
  • OldAtlantic
    Libs already have the chip. Lib schools implant the chip already.
  • Richie73
    Yeah those brainless, unquestioning liberals who take their marching orders from Rush Limbaugh and Foxnews.

    Oh wait, those are not liberals.
  • OldAtlantic
    Only an implant of foreign thoughts would make you hate your own race and want to have your job taken by a non-white immigrant.
  • BrainRagYell
    It must be terrible to live with this kind of fear -- I'm so sorry for you.
  • ADIZZY999
    This will affect us all. They will do away with money and plastic. The only way to buy goods and pay your mortgage will be with an implanted chip. If you dont follow orders your chip will be deactivated. That is why it is compared to the mark of the beast!! Revelations.
  • OldAtlantic
    Better to live with fear than fall out of the liberal mind block to racial reality.
  • Caving into fear is understandable; when all you want is security. As long as you can have your lifestyle and be comfortable in your homes and feel nice and safe until you die you’re willing to have ‘Big Brother’ take care of you from ‘cradle to grave’. ‘From cradle to grave’ your willing to sell out your children’s and grandchildren’s future liberty and climate in order ‘to keep things just the way they are’, to feel secure in your finances and lifestyle.
    .
    You’re willing to give up freely what others, who came before you, worked, suffered and died for. Why, because you’re afraid of the boogie man from the Middle East who has the strange religion and frightening ways. So scared, that calling the president a Muslim seems like a fitting insult and cause for anxiety. You’re willing to throw it all away because of fear mixed with a healthy dose of willful ignorance and a smattering of hate. No amount of evidence can convince you seriously misguided adherents of anything FOX and Limbaugh that you are willing victims of propaganda and lies.
    .
    You’re, too, voluntarily blind to see you are denying your faithfulness to what you so proudly proclaim as God and country. You are swept up by the passion of conflict and follow along aimlessly. Duped by your own pigheaded ignorance and fear of going against what seems popular with your peers you halt any contrary questions you may have floating around in your conscience.

    The whole idea, embraced by the right, that many of us, who don't succumb to their warped ideology and fears, aren't real Americans and are the enemy within is dangerously threatening to our nation. Fear and suspicion of anyone 'not like us' has been catastrophic in every country it has existed in and is equally cataclysmic here. For the party that claims to be the 'America-first crowd' this is an extremely irresponsible tactic to the well being of the ideals of our country.
  • Bravado driven nationalism that disguises hate in an illusion of the defense of mom and apple pie does not improve its immorality.
  • OldAtlantic
    Liberalism is the license to hate whites. Libs feel superior as they go extinct dragging other whites with them.
  • Hate is evil; it always has been the biggest obstacle to fitting through the needles eye.
  • Dan D
    NO ONE ! will ever put a chip under my skin or my kids ! NEVER ! I would die fighting before that ever happened.
  • ADIZZY999
    Sorry Dan but you would not die fighting, you would die of starvation, unless your friends looked after you. And if the authorities found out they were helping you, their chip would be deactivated.
  • malikk
    ay have you ever seen the movie soy lent green was made in 1973 check it out ,
    its about people killing themselfs to save the environment sounds just like what these global warming dickheads want, another thought this movie was made in 1973 how long have these global warming dickheads been planning this shit.
    i saw it when i was 9 years old scared the shit out of me
  • ADIZZY999
    Yes I remember that old thing. Two weeks ago I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. I took my time reading them. Now it doesn't matter who wrote them, or if they are bogus. What matters is, do they correlate with what is happening in the world today. I defy anyone to read them and say what is written is not happening today. The Protocols were debunked by the Times newspaper in the 30s or 40s. That is irrelevant, what is contained therein is happening today in my opinion. Although the Protocols are described as anti-Semitic, I do not believe for one moment they were written by the Jews. I find them frightening. The reading is more comprehensive than the videos.
  • malikk
    this is for all you global warming motherfuckers


    SOYLENT GREEN MOVIE

    A tale of Earth in despair in 2022. Natural food like fruits, vegetables, and meat among others are now extinct. Earth is overpopulated and New York City has 40 million starving, poverty stricken people. The only way they survive is with water rations and eating a mysterious food called Soylent. A detective investigates the murder of the president of the Soylent company. The truth he uncovers is more disturbing than the Earth in turmoil when he learns the secret ingredient of Soylent Green. Written by Mystic80

    In the year 2022, earth's face has completely changed. New York's population, for example, has grown to 40 million mouths to feed. The greenhouse effect has risen the temperature into nearly unbearable regions, and the people are kept in the cities by law. The rich live in separated luxury apartments (with women as part of the rented furniture) but also experience the lack of natural food. Strawberries are at $150 for a glass of them. Police Detective Thorn investigates a strange murdering case of an official from the Soylent corporation, which feeds the masses with a palette of their creations: Soylent red, yellow, or, even more nutritious, green. Written by Julian Reischl {julianreischl@mac.com}

    The year is 2022. New York City has become overpopulated with 40 million people and pollution has caused the temperature to be risen and all natural resources have been destroyed, leaving 40 million people starving. The Soylent Company has create a new food product, Soylent Green. In the overpopulated and polluted New York City, police detective Thorn is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of an corporate official of the Soylent company, William R. Simonson. Thorn's investigation into Simonson's murder leads him to uncover a conspiracy in the Soylant company and the Soylent Green food product itself, where Thorn uncovers the horrible truth about Soylent Green. Written by Daniel Williamson

    In the year 2022, overpopulation and the greenhouse effect have made life extremely difficult for the majority of people. The population of New York City is 40 million and the constant heat is unbearable. The city's infrastructure has broken down. Water is rationed and fresh food is virtually non-existent. Rather, most of the population live on soylent green, made from ocean vegetation and formed into tasteless green wafers. In this environment Detective Robert Thorn is assigned to investigate the death of William Simonson who was ultra-rich and didn't suffer any of life's hardships. He was killed with a blow to the head and it was all made to look like an interrupted break-in but Thorn is convinced early on that it was an assassination. Thorn learns that Simonson was a member of the Board of the Soylent Corporation but had recently become sad and morose. What, Thorn wonders would make such a rich man unhappy. Written by garykmcd

    Albert Einstein once was quoted saying, "if something eliminated the honeybees from our planet, mankind would soon perish". While there may be many different reasons attributing to the decline of the honey bee, there are a few theories that stood out.
  • malikk
    they IS NO FUCKING WAY I WILL ALLOW ANY MOTHERFUCKER TO MICROCHIP ME NO WAY NEVER.
    you people here have better wake the hell up these banksters, NWO order types are very serious i am going to buy me some AK 47'S LET THOSE motherfuckers come for me i be ready, i rather die on my feet than live on my knees. I WILL NOT BE ANYONE'S SLAVE NEVER NEVER.
  • ADIZZY999
    Go to utube and put in -THE FALL OF AMERICA.-- IT WILL TELL YOU IN NO. 17 ABOUT CHIPS.
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