Mexico Attorney General Has Microchip Fitted in Arm

Mexico's attorney general said on Monday he had had a microchip inserted under the skin of one of his arms to give him access to a new crime database and also enable him to be traced if he is ever abducted.

Attorney General Rafael Macedo said a number of his staff had also been fitted with chips which will give them exclusive and secure access to a national, computerized database for crime investigators that went live on Monday.

"It's an area of high security, it's necessary that we have access to this, through a chip, which what's more is unremovable," Macedo told reporters.

"The system is here and I already have it. It's solely for access, for safety and so that I can be located at any moment wherever I am," he said, admitting the chip hurt "a little."

TO summarize the important points from the above: big brother is here in the form of a GPS-enabled implantable microchip, it hurts when he gets under your skin, and he's a job requirement. Inevitably there will be proposals to move this into the US. There will be calls to implant these chips in criminals, in illegal immigrants, in pets, in government workers, and finally in your kids... just to keep them safe, you understand, in case they are ever abducted. It's for the children.

Well, I say they've all got their priorities wrong. If these chips ever make their way across the border, there's one place to put them before we even consider anything else: put them in the politicians, and make the records publically available in realtime. Consider it an experiment -- a trial period. We can test the idea to see how Americans react to being "chipped". We can do a survey at the end, to see how politicians felt about having their location tracked at all times. If there were any that didn't decide to resign in disgrace, that is.