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Gentlemen, we are now in a state of necessity, and necessity knows no law - Reich Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg
Amish farmers protest Mark of the Beast RFID tagging
A LAWSUIT BY an angry bunch of Michigan-based Amish farmers - protesting having to tag their cattle with radio frequency identification devices (RFID) - will probably be dismissed by a federal judge after some cajoling by the outgoing Bush administration.
The Amish have raised their pitchforks in protest at new State regulations about tagging cattle with RFIDs, claiming the move "constitutes some form of a 'mark of the beast' and/or represents an infringement of their 'dominion over cattle and all living things' in violation of their fundamental religious beliefs".
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The United States Department of Agriculture, however, reckons the RFID tagging of beasts – Satanic or otherwise – is completely voluntary, and a sensible measure put in place to help agricultural officials keep track of livestock diseases.
But after finding it devilishly hard to persuade the Amish, the outgoing current administration has now had to step in. Bush’s team wrote a missive claiming the case should be dismissed "because plaintiffs cannot establish that any rule issued or action taken by the USDA either mandates the use of RFID tags on livestock located within Michigan, or, conversely, prevents the Michigan Department of Agriculture from granting appropriate religious exemptions imposed by that department."
RFID tagging is becoming more and more common lately, as the technology replaces barcodes and labels. But as RFID tagging becomes more prevalent, so too do allegations from Christian religious fundamentalists who reckon all this electronic tagging symbolises the mark of the beast, and the coming of the antichrist. As if the world doesn’t have enough on its plate.
Still, the Virginia-based Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, which brought the case on behalf of the Amish farmers, says if the programme isn’t dealt with, some of its clients “may have to quit farming”.
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Make DNA testing more prevalent and simply DNA ID every cow. Then you can trace every part, not just the tag, which can and will be manipulated. 

But then again there would be no kickback for the Senators who pushed the RFID tag through.
Here's what I don't understand: If all these things that they fight like "RFID = mark of the beast" and "environmental pacts = world government" mean that the rapture/end of days is coming...why do they resist it? I understand not getting themselves into it, and warning others not to me marked or whatever, but why resist their implementation by the heathens and non-believers? Don't they want the Lord to end the world so they and their loved ones can all go to heaven for eternity? Don't they want Jesus to come back?

Or are they scared because they know they're not gonna get in ;)
Some few farmers "borrow" their neighbour's cattle when the grant assessor is visiting. This means instead of having 40 cows in the field, they now have 120. Thus they get grants for 120.

This is how farmers make a living in Europe, iirc it's about £40 a year for each sheep. If you have 3,000 sheep then that's £120,000 a year. Not bad eh? But you try looking after 3,000 sheep, you will work your socks off.

RFID tagging means the guy can turn up anytime, wave his RFID detector wand and get a count of the cattle. He can do this while driving along if the fields are accessible by road, which most are.

Ears are also clipped or marked when this is done, so the RFID fitter will know if someone is trying to register the same cow more than once.
"Christian religious fundamentalists ... reckon all this electronic tagging symbolises ... the coming of the antichrist"

Isn't that supposed to happen at the 'end of days' just before christ appears or some such. You would think the bible-bashers would want to hurry that along. They really do believe in that stuff, don't they?
it's interesting that they think that by merely artificially stopping the signs they can prevent what they themselves say they bible predicts, outwit god so to speak.
Amazing inconsistencies and weird logic is so much part of all religion isn't it
This sounds like a script for a really bad horror movie — please forgive the pleonasm.

"Still, the Virginia-based Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, which brought the case on behalf of the Amish farmers, says if the programme isn’t dealt with, some of its clients “may have to quit farming”."

> No, but they may have to buy a brain... and hope the Antichrist doesn't eat it after the RIFD-cattle opens a gateway to our mortal realm for it. Beware of the damned cows!
The almighty Wikipedia entry begs to differ on the No. of the beast!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast#616