Ok, it's not a "Prediction" as in "I had a scary dream." or "I've been studying an obscure Sumerian text" but it is a prediction about the future of
air travel.
I've been mulling over this scan/grope thing with the airlines and wondering "Why are they doing it like this?"
It's not efficient, it's not effective and it's not really legal but they are treating citizens like criminals. Meanwhile they are finding ways
to exempt the ones who caused this mess in the first place.
I came up with the idea that this is a part of the "process" that is being used to lead us around and entice us to give up our rights.
It seems obvious that this whole mess isn't about keeping us safe or safer. The terrorists in regards to planes thus far are all muslim and the
powers that be seem intent on allowing at least half of them to walk past security unscanned and without the alternative groping. The funny thing is
that in Middle Eastern countries women still get the same treatment as men but in a separate and covered booth. Why would they suddenly be so offended
in the states if they get a pat down in Jordan, Iraq, Saudi, etc...
So, the powers that be are obviously doing this for a reason but not the one you would think.
Why?
They have already provided alternate ways to check in through security and even through passport control in the US. They have pay services that
allow a pre screened and checked individual to bypass lines. These are targeted at business men and the wealthier folks that can afford it but they
are there.
I think the next thing we will see is a commercial push to get everyday people into these programs and then move these members to an RFID type
system for "security and convenience". These will be the pilot programs that get the governments foot in the door for widespread RFID implimentation
on all forms of travel.
Soon, you will see a single security checkpoint scanning and patting down everyone without RFID and making folks wait in line for hours while right
next to it will be a nice easy walk through checkpoint. It will likely have a smiling pretty lady who greets the chipped members as they breeze by on
the other side of a glass wall behind wich will be hundreds of people waiting for a scan or grope.
Only the really cool folks will get RFID. It will be a status symbol. It will mean you are special and the rest of the unwashed unchipped heathen will
get to stand there and watch you breeze by while they are bent over an exam table getting an "enhanced" cavity search.
Soon it will happen. People will spend the cash to be cool and get convenience.
"It's my choice." they will say, "I'm doing this myself. Nobody "made" me take a chip. I did it of free will because I know better than those paranoid
provincials."
Trend setters will be movie stars, music stars athletes and wealthy people (who would normally be on private jets) and the cattle will follow.
Soon, the government will have most of the traveling population chipped and the rest will be labelled as a risk and a threat to the mindful and
intelligent chip people. (Chipples ?)
The government won't need to force us to take a chip. It will come through marketing and brand recognition that provides a much needed "service"
for the knowledgable air traveller.
Then for trains, then busses, then maybe even taxis.
It won't take long.
In a single generation most Americans will take the chip. And they will pay for the priveledge.
This might be a prediction that actually comes true.
edit on 21-11-2010 by badgerprints because: spelling