RFID tracking in Calif. school

[Cyrus]

So many principles are being violated by this vile decision, that it's amazing it finds support at all. Briefly:

- This is a measure that assumes guilt rather than innocence on the part of those wearing the RFID, which undermines the very basis of the legal system.

- The assumption leads more persons than otherwise towards "fulfilling the assumptions" of the RFID. When you call someone a jerk often enough, he will finally, probably get to be one.

- It shows a failure on the part of the parents to properly educate and bring up their offspring. This failure is conveniently ignored and their responsibility unloaded on a third party, the school system -- and its silly RFIDs!

- Free thinking itself is restricted. You don't think so? Then you must believe that a person will generally function as a free human being the same way when he is monitored and when he is not. This claim, though, would run against the consensus of psychology.

- That decrease in free thinking is not just morally wrong but bad for society, as a whole. (I trust the reason is obvious).

- From "irresponsible" students to "unruly" citizens. The increased monitoring of the citizenry by the forces of law and order is not to be condoned, not even if it is perpetrated in the name of some scary bogeyman, like the War On Terror. I understand that this is difficult for some Bush supporters to accept, so I'd invite them to assume that Michael Moore was president. Would you, fellas, want him to give his police such powers?

- Entropy must be resisted, not facilitated.