Plans underway to microchip AIDS patients

Apparently the Paupa province in Indonesia is planning to implant microchips in people with HIV/AIDS much like we do dogs and cats in this country:

Under the bylaw, which has caused uproar among human rights activists, patients who had shown “actively sexual behavior” could be implanted with a microchip to monitor their activity, lawmaker John Manangsang said.

“It’s a simple technology. A signal from the microchip will track their movements and this will be received by monitoring authorities,” Manangsang said.

If a patient with HIV/AIDS was found to have infected a healthy person, there would be a penalty, he said without elaborating. Source: Yahoo News/Reuters

It should also be noted that the rates of HIV/AIDS in the Paupa province is about 20 times that of the rest of Indonesia. Experts attribute this disparity to prostitution and promiscuity, as well as lack of education on disease transmission.

In spite of these factors, people should not be “chipped” like effing shelter dogs. The bottom line is that this is not only inhumane and discriminatory, but an egregious human rights violation!

What next, chip people with hepatitis? Or perhaps diabetes? Hell, why don’t we just go ahead and chip everybody so that our every move can be tracked by Big Brother?

This is a slippery slope, and the spread of an infectious disease is no excuse for microchipping human beings. What they need to do is get some comprehensive education programs underway instead of trying to usher in some New World Order type stuff.

I truly hope this bill does not pass, however if it does, I think we all have reason to be concerned, very concerned…

Filed under: AIDS, Big Brother, HIV, Indonesia Papua province, microchip AIDS patients, Social Commentary