Tommy's chip 'an abomination'

We (that's the editorial we, used so you think there are too many of us to fight) reported here last week that Tommy Thompson was having a chip implanted, and that some people thought that was the work of the devil.

Conservative/libertarian/whatever Geoff Metcalf takes Tommy to task for other reasons:

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson is pimping for implanted microchips. Big flipping deal! Sigmund Freud advocated cocaine. Freud was an early advocate of cocaine, recommending it for a great many ailments, physical and mental, including, of all things, heroin addiction; latter, he reluctantly (and begrudgingly) admitted that this was perhaps not the wisest thing he ever did.

Thompson reportedly plans to promote sub dermal biochips, by having one implanted in his arm. Thompson’s promotion, linked no doubt by his joining the board of directors of VeriChip, is an abomination.

I’ve been complaining about sub dermal biochips since 1998. In addition to itching and moaning on the radio about the dangers of implanted biochips I have written tens of thousand words explaining the evisceration of the very concept of privacy. “Privacy—the very concept of privacy—becomes an anachronism”.

There is a long list of alleged ‘benefits’ of biochip implants. And like the list of 'benefits’ Freud touted for heroin and cocaine, they are wrong.

There's more. You can read it all here if you're so inclined.