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Subject: RFID, transponders on TX vehicles


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Joey Dauben
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Date Posted: 21:00:43 04/10/05 Sun

Please NOTE that the sentence: Vitamins, supplements to be obtained by prescription -- should be bolded, because it is a subsection within this story.


Austin Update

Legislature wants RFID, transponders on vehicles

Vitamins to be obtained by prescription in June

STAFF REPORT
The Ellis County Press

ELLIS COUNTY - State lawmakers have irked Constitution advocates with their proposals to mandate registration stickers on vehicles come equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and transponders.

Under House Bill 2893, authored by Transportation Committee Vice Chair Rep. Larry Phillips, R-Sherman, transponders would be required on all vehicles during state inspections.

If passed, the measure goes into effect Sept. 1 of this year.

RFID, which is a common tracking technology used in warehouses, department stores and places with large inventories of merchandise, has been assailed by privacy advocates who fear the unregulated devices -- a tracking system and microchip -- could be used by the government to track innocent citizens.

The requirements for RFID chips to be embedded in state-issued vehicle insurance stickers also falls under HB 2893, which, as mentioned before, if passed, will take effect Sept. 1.

Already, lawmakers are feeling the brunt of grassroots opposition to the proposed legislation.

Opponents say the massive Trans-Texas Corridor project, which Gov. Rick Perry - a Republican - said he came up with, would utilize public-private roads affixed with magnetic RFID strips capable of tracking vehicles.

Legislation last year that paved the way for the TTC - an inter-connected mixture of roads, rail and massive highway systems that would criss-cross the state - has also been a lightning rod for environmental and property rights groups.

Vitamins, supplements to be obtained by prescription

And users of vitamins and natural supplements will be forced to obtain their pills and ingredients from pharmacists and doctors by June, according to the federal government.

Per a treaty with the World Trade Organization recently, U.S. officials began issuing their mandates to the states and to the federal Food and Drug Administration, which will in turn begin requiring local physicians, pharmacies and health-food stores to require prescriptions for the drugs, which currently can be bought off the shelf.

"Let's take stock of what is going on now," said DeSoto resident and political activist Ed Fyffe, referring to the prescription requirement and an admittal by U.S. officials that a deadly flu virus was found. "The U.S. government, through a treaty [with] the WTO, will now require all to present a prescription from a doctor to obtain vitamins and food supplements.

"We are faced with the facts of [vaccine induced diseases] and many are now seeking homeopathic means to battle infirmities," he said. "Sevearl of the most prominent bio scientists in the world have been suicided over the last three to four years, and now we are faced with a threat of a pandemic flu virus that can kill millions of people around the world."

Fyffe, who has made a name for himself battling local judges and governments, is worried the virus could make its way to the states in the near future.

The virus, according to Fyffe and published press reports, is of human origin, and natural treatments for it should not come from a doctor.

"If it [human-originated flu virus] swims like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck," he said.

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