From: mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T bar-code$
Message-ID: <1992Oct6.180333.1580@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 92 18:03:33 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
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                 THE "MARK OF THE BEA$T"

     ALL Christians are PROHIBITED by Revelation 14:9-11 from
cooperating with the "MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T" bar-code, OCR-
number, and magnetic-strip scanning systems, (as found in
local libraries, supermarkets, retail establishments, etc.),
which also THREATEN to SUBVERT Individual Privacy and
Freedom.

     The scanners can serve THE SAME CRIMINAL PURPOSE as the
TV cameras in the book "1984"!

     The UPC bar-codes are probably the most blatant form of
the "MARK OF THE BEA$T" so far, with the "NUMBER OF THE
BEA$T", 666, ALREADY CODED INTO THEM.  Each of the so-called
"guard patterns", pairs of thin lines spaced close together
at the beginning, middle, and end of each full-length UPC
bar-code, is IDENTICAL to one of the two codes for a 6.

     WARN YOUR FRIENDS!

     UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this
IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED.

                         Robert E. McElwaine
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