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November 20, 2012
Related: Student Expelled for Refusing Location Tracking RFID Badge
A Texas school district has come under legal fire after they expelled a student for failure to comply with their “School Locator Project,” an RFID chip tracking program currently being piloted in a middle and high school in San Antonio.
John Jay High School sophomore Andrea Hernandez and her family have protested her school’s tracking badge policy for months, asserting that it violates her religious freedom and right to privacy. The school’s administration finally offered her a deal; she would comply with the project by wearing a program badge with the chip removed.
Not wanting to endorse the program in any way, Andrea refused. On November 13, the school sent Andrea’s father a letter involuntarily withdrawing her from classes because “all students are expected to comply with the Smart ID policy.”
In a just-released statement, The Rutherford Institute, which represents the Hernandez family, has announced it will immediately seek a preliminary injunction against the district to prevent Andrea from being moved to another school.
This case is quickly setting a precedent that students can be kicked out of school for not complying with programs they feel violate their rights.
“I feel it is an invasion of my religious beliefs, I feel that it’s the implementation of the Mark of the Beast, I feel that it’s an invasion of my privacy and an invasion of all my rights as a citizen,” Andrea said at a school RFID protest shown in an Infowars report below.
“What we’re teaching kids is that they live in a total surveillance state and if they do not comply, they will be punished,” John Whitehead, a constitutional lawyer with Rutherford said in a telephone interview with Infowars. “There has to be a point at which schools have to show valid reasons why they’re doing this.”
On the district’s Student Locator Project website, it notes that “Northside ISD is harnessing the power of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) to make schools safer, know where our students are while at school, increase revenues, and provide a general purpose ‘smart’ ID card. Parents entrust us with their children and expect that we always know where their children are; this technology will help us do that.” Although the school will pay $500,000 up front for the program, they are hoping to garner $1.7 million from the state government in increased attendance funds.
The district’s website also confirms the “smart” student ID cards are just the newest edition to the school’s surveillance grid. A letter to parents regarding the Smart ID project’s implementation mentions that digital cameras have been installed in all high and middle schools and all school buses. Whitehead noted that the schools have already been fitted with 290 surveillance cameras.
In addition, according to the district, the Smart ID will “provide access to the library and cafeteria” and “allow for the purchase of tickets to the schools’ extracurricular activities,” meaning students who refuse to comply with the program will not be allowed to access those facilities and activities. The school also mentions, “Other uses [for the Smart IDs] will be rolled out during the pilot program.”
As Infowars previously pointed out, the Hernandez’s feel the program is a direct violation of their Christian religious beliefs, as it bears a striking resemblance to Revelations 13: 16-18 warning of the Mark of the Beast:
“16. He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17. and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or[a] the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.” (New King James Version)
The Student Locator Card program is set to expand to all 112 schools in the San Antonio district.
“Regimes are formulated in the schools. Every dictator – every regime-changer – has always implemented a dictatorship in the schools first,” Whitehead said. “The ramifications are really ominous: if you grow up in that environment all your life, it’s normal to you. We’re moving into a total compliance society.”
This article was posted: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Tags: big brother, domestic spying, education, police state, technology
