RFID tags on cars in Texas considered

While considerable data already exist, as the various sectoral chapters of Agenda 21 indicate, more and different types of data need to be collected, at the local, provincial, national and international levels, indicating the status and trends of the planet's ecosystem, natural resource, pollution and socio-economic variables...Governments should consider undertaking the necessary institutional changes at the national level to achieve the integration of environmental and developmental information. At the international level, environmental assessment activities need to be strengthened and coordinated with efforts to assess development trends....

—U.N. Agenda 21, Chapter 40

The mining of your personal data continues.

If you live in Texas, you'd better jot down this bill number, and call your state legislator. H.B. 2893 would replace all vehicle inspection stickers with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. Section 601.507 reads:

SPECIAL INSPECTION CERTIFICATES.
(a) Commencing not later than January 1, 2006, the department shall issue or contract for the issuance of special inspection certificates to be affixed to motor vehicles that are inspected and found to be in proper and safe condition under Chapter 548.
(b) An inspection certificate under this section must contain a tamper-resistant transponder, and at a minimum, be capable of storing:
    (1) the transponder's unique identification number; and
    (2) the make, model, and vehicle identification number of the vehicle to which the certificate is affixed.
(c) In addition, the transponder must be compatible with:
    (1) the automated vehicle registration and certificate of title system established by the Texas Department of Transportation; and
    (2) interoperability standards established by the Texas Department of Transportation and other entities for use of the system of toll roads and toll facilities in this state.

Full text of the legislation can be found here.

Read it, then call your state capitol to complain.

For those who don't live in Texas, you better check your state legislature as well. Often these bills are written for the states, then passed down through regional offices to the capitols for the "useful idiots" to pass into law. That means that when one ominous measure pops up in a particular state, others may have it as well.

Such was the case with the State Emergency Health Powers Act and other terror bills which were thrust upon us immediately following the created crisis of September 11th.

Liberty requires eternal vigilance. To locate your state government go here.