Judge, I don’t believe the Constitution these individuals long for could have led to the America our Founders envisioned. Like the Founders, I believe our Constitution is as big and as grand as this great nation.

Our constitutional journey did not stop with women barred from being lawyers, with 10-year-olds working in coal mines, or with black kids forced into different schools than white kids just because the Constitution nowhere mentions “sex discrimination,” “child labor,” or “segregated education.”

Our constitutional journey did not stop then, and it must not stop now. For we will be faced with equally consequential decisions in the 21st Century: can microscopic tags be implanted in a person’s body to track his every movement; can patents be issued for the creation of human life; can brain scans be used to determine whether a person is inclined toward criminal or violent behavior?

• In May 2005, Congress passed the "Real ID" Act, which requires states - starting in May 2008 -- to issue federally approved driver's licenses or identification (ID) cards to those who live and work in the U.S.

  Unlike the USA Patriot Act and other politically sensitive pieces of legislation, Real ID has not made many headlines. Last fall, it was voted down. But then it was reintroduced, and tacked onto the 2005 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Defense, the Global War on Terror and Tsunami Relief. (Real ID hence superseded conflicting portions of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.) Obviously, it would have been a serious political liability for a Congressperson to vote against funding for the war on terror and tsunami relief. So it is unsurprising that there was no debate on, no hearings on, and no public vetting of the Act.

The REAL ID Act was slipped in on us so quietly it isn't funny! Many people to this day fail to realize it even happened it drew so little attention!

• The Real ID Act's identity cards will be required not only if one wants to drive, but also if one seeks to visit a federal government building, collect Social Security, access a federal government service, or use the services of a private entity (such as a bank or an airline) that is required under federal law to verify customer identity.

  In other words, it will be well nigh impossible to live without such an ID.

• Many commentators predict that believe radio frequency identification (RFID) tags will be placed in our licenses. (Other alternatives include a magnetic strip or enhanced bar code). In the past, the Department of Homeland Security has indicated it likes the concept of RFID chips.
  RFID tags emit radio frequency signals. Significantly, those signals would allow the government to track the movement of our cards (and hence, of us as well).

Talk about a major privacy concern! Everywhere we go, everything we do, both financially and otherwise, will potentially be trackable by the government? Can you imagine? And this is, potentially, going to take place in "the land of the free" and the home of the brave?

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I believe we are witnessing, at this present hour in the world around us, the birth pains of the coming mark of the beast prophesied in the Bible. Governments around the world, both in the United States and abroad, are being driven by fear to consider doing things that will make even our most basic human privacies a thing of the past, at least where governmental monitoring is concerned, all of it taking place, allegedly, to make our world a safer place.

What might Supreme Court Chief Justice nominee John Roberts think of an implantable microchip? While I hadn't really given the topic a great deal of thought, I'm beginning to wonder now, in light of Senator Biden oddly bringing the controversial topic up, if we need to know - and desperately - what he thinks of the concept of Americans being tagged and tracked like wild animals. My guess is we won't get a great deal of insight into his thoughts on the topic, particularly if conspiracy theorists who suggest a new world order is secretly being formed beneath our collective noses are correct in thinking this sort of identification is a stepping stone toward a one-world government identification becoming a reality in the future.

News like this really stirs the imagination, doesn't it? It isn't hard to envision how everything could proceed from this point forward. First comes the microchip-implanted national ID card, which many nations in Europe are similarly considering implementing as I've documented in the past. Then, due to theft, fraud, blah blah blah, and a bit of propaganda thrown in, etc., we move on to the next stage of making ourselves "more safe in an increasingly dangerous world" (or something all warm and fuzzy sounding like that) and switch to an implantable microchip, allegedly a fraud-proof form of identification!

While some of the preceding paragraph is admittedly speculative on my part, Bible prophecy tells us the prophesied Antichrist's False Prophet, upon his arrival onto the world stage, is eventually going to require all mankind, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Revelation 13:16-17)

While it is admittedly premature to suggest an implantable microchip technology will comprise the prophesied mark of the beast, Senator Joseph Biden's remarks make it clear to me the particular technology in question, which is eerily similar in description to the prophesied mark of the beast, is being considered as a means to identify us all in the highest halls of government. That alone should grab our attention.

Keep looking up!